Grow your team with motivated staff with a Live Events Technician Apprentice

A Creative Industries Production Technician (Level 3) apprentice supports the smooth delivery of live events and performances. From stagecraft and lighting to rigging and power, they’re trained to support the quality of your work and future proof your business. Apprentices will develop a robust blend of Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviours (KSBs), encompassing technical know-how and professional behaviours. They’ll build:

Core Knowledge:

Roles, responsibilities and sector-specific compliance.
Health & safety in creative environments.
Technical production processes including lighting, sound, electrical and rigging.
Sustainability, equality & diversity in the workplace.

Key Skills:

Planning, prepping, maintaining and operating technical equipment.
Working across departments in live contexts.
Troubleshooting under pressure.
Communicating effectively with creative and technical teams.
Adapting to evolving technologies and tools.

Professional Behaviours:

A proactive, can-do attitude.
Reliability and calm under pressure.
Commitment to learning and self-development.
Collaborative, respectful, and responsible.

Why it works for employers:

Grow your team with motivated staff who know your ways of working.
Cost effective way of bringing fresh talent into your team.
Gain fresh perspectives from a new generation ready to innovate and support your mission.

Key facts:

Duration: 18-24 months (including end point assessment)

Cost-effective: 95% government-funded for SMEs (you pay just 5% of the training costs). Salary costs are covered by you. Apprentices under the age of 25 are NI exempt, reducing the cost to you. Levy-paying organisations can use levy funds to cover the full cost of training.

On-the-job training: 80% of the apprentice’s time is spent working in your organisation.

Off-the-job training: 20% is delivered by specialist tutors currently working in industry.

Partnership: You’ll be supported by the MUTI Live team every step of the way, from recruitment to final assessment.

Applications for this course are currently closed, you can register your interest below.

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What is a Skills Bootcamp?

A Skills Bootcamp is a government funded employability training offer. Subjects are varied but respond to skills gaps identified from working with employers. A Skills Bootcamp is a minimum 60hr course and open to residents of the UK who are over 19 years old and have the right to work in the UK.

What is an apprenticeship?

An apprenticeship is just like a normal job but apprentices spend 20% of their contracted hours training to equip them for their role and future career.

Is it really free?

Apprenticeships are free to the learner, the employer may contribute a small amount to the training.
Skills Bootcamps are also free to the learner – if the learner works full time then their employer contributes 10% of the training if they are a small organisation and 30% if they are a large organisation.