About this role
Salary: £35,000 - 40,000 per year
Requirements
- Previous experience in events, exhibitions, conferences, festivals, or a similar site-based environment
- Strong networking knowledge, including IP addressing, VLANs, routing, and switching
- Experience with structured cabling, fibre, and PoE technologies
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work under pressure in fast-moving environments
- Strong communication and customer-facing skills
- Full UK driving licence
- Experience with EPOS, payment solutions, or retail technology is advantageous
Responsibilities
- Deploy temporary networks and event technology solutions
- Install and support EPOS, MPOS, and payment systems
- Provide on-site technical support during live events
- Troubleshoot networking and connectivity issues
- Lead and support teams on event sites
- Assist with equipment setup, testing, and de-rigging
- Maintain health and safety and operational standards
Technologies
- Support
- Network
More
We are recruiting for an Event Network Engineer to join our clients growing technical operations team. The role is based in Gloucester, pays up to £40,000, and involves extensive travel across the UK, regular overnight stays, on-site event work, and weekend or unsociable hours during busy periods. It is a hands-on, site-based position rather than a traditional office-based IT support role. We are Hunter Selection Limited, a recruitment consultancy with offices across the UK, specialising in permanent and contract roles across engineering and manufacturing, IT and digital, science and technology, and service and sales.
last updated 46 week of 2026