Audio Visual Technical Design Manager – Scotland

Salary: £42,000 – £54,000 per year

The client designs, supplies, installs and maintains integrated Audio-Visual systems throughout Scotland. Centrally located in Glasgow with teams in Edinburgh, and a satellite office in Inverness.
The company is well placed to offer the environment and culture for you to reach your full potential with an employee ownership scheme allowing you to be a real part of the future and progress of the business.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the team to enhance the Engineering team. The company is embarking on the next stage of its growth plans having successfully weathered the challenges of the Covid pandemic.

Roles and Responsibilities
• Development and design of all systems and solutions to customer requirements
• Provision of support and advice to the Engineering team on products and technology
• Consultancy support for customers
• Monitoring product portfolio to ensure that Mediascape supply the best, most appropriate kit to customers
• Building organisational knowledge of availability, functionality, and application of audio-visual equipment
• Technical input to tender documentation, customer proposals, and company marketing
• Commission AV systems where required (desirable not essential)
• Programme AV Control Systems including Extron and AMX (Creston desirable but not essential) where required
• Maintain knowledge of new developments and innovations in the audio-visual field
• Develop an effective and accessible database of current and future products and solutions
• Monitor, assess and manage design capacity, making the business case for the additional resource as required
• Contributing to management team discussions and to executive policy and strategy
• Taking an active interest in self-development, seeking opportunities to enhance skills and experience to optimise performance
• Any other duties and responsibilities as deemed required by line management
Required Skills
• Excellent technical knowledge of AV & VC equipment
• Must be able to produce AV designs including schematics for video, audio, control, and network
• Must be able to produce cable schedules
• Must be able to produce and mark up DWG level room drawings. Knowledge of relevant drawings systems including CAD, Visio etc
• Ability to design innovative, financially viable, and reliable systems that meet our client’s requirements while remaining competitive in the market
• Knowledge of the latest AV products including but not limited to Extron, AMX, Crestron, Samsung, NEC, Polycom and Kramer
• Ability to commission full AV systems including but not limited to VC systems, Digital Sound Processors, Video and Audio distribution systems
• Extron and AMX Control System programming experience (Crestron desirable)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, organisational skills and the ability to work on multiple projects
• Ability to understand project schedules, plans and labour requirements. Prince 2 practitioner an advantage
• Ability to prioritise and work under pressure is essential to meet necessary deadlines
• Good understanding of IT and networks