Edinburgh Fringe Festival - Out Of Hand

Out Of Hand

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Driver & Advertisement Board Fitter
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the largest arts festival in the world.

We are working in partnership with Edinburgh City Council and The Fringe Society again this year and looking for Drivers and Advertisement board fitters to work with us on our Edinburgh Fringe External Advertising Contract.

Out of Hand is an established Design, Print and Distribution specialist based in Bristol and Edinburgh.

We are the operators of the official Outdoor Advertisement scheme for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and have a fantastic reputation for our Print & Distribution services in the Events & Leisure sector and are on the current Edinburgh City Council's approved suppliers list.

Out of Hand is contracted to handle all aspects of the Edinburgh Fringe Outdoor Advertisement scheme, this covers various aspects such as building advertisement structures, printing and installing advertisement boards, maintenance and break down.

In 2019 the project saw us install over 7km of posters throughout the entire city with more than 130 national and international clients, including some of the largest entertainment management companies and comedy promoters within the industry.

Our 2023 project is on track to be on a similar scale.

The Role:

Drivers and Board Fitters will make up the majority of the team in Edinburgh and will be involved in structure assembly, poster installation and maintenance, and project clear down.

You will work directly under the Senior Build Supervisor and be assigned to a Build Supervisor each day.

Depending on which vehicles our insurance qualifies you to drive, you will assist in the distribution of Heras panels and feet to advertising sites in the initial stages of the project followed by the Correx poster boards.

You will be expected to feedback progress and issues to your build supervisor who can then escalate these to upper management.

Duties will include:

Building the advertising structures around central Edinburgh and ferrying equipment to and from the warehouse to the build teams.
Installing the advertisement boards on structures. This will involve using our bespoke scanning software to scan posters onto the site and engaging in our Proof of Posting process which the Operations Manager and Senior Warehouse Manager will explain to you.
Driving and assisting with the distribution or delivery of advertisement material to locations in Central Edinburgh.
Maintaining the advertisement boards and structures, including assisting the Clean Supervisor with maintaining street furniture.
Assisting with the clearing down of the advertisement boards and project disassembly.
As a driver, you will need to adhere to our Drivers Policy at all times.

Desired Skills and Experience:

A full, clean driving licence
Strong communication skills
Highly professional manner
An ability to build on and develop strong relationships
Have attended and/or have a good understanding of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Have experience driving/navigating through the streets of Edinburgh.

Further Information:

The Project will run from Monday 10th July until Friday 15th September 2023 with an hourly rate of £11.50 per hour.

We will be running a 7 day a week operation and looking at running some night shifts this year.

Daytime shifts from 8.00am to 6.00pm. Evening shifts from 6.00pm to 2.00am.

Any evening work undertaken between 10pm and 7am will also equate to an enhanced rate of 1.5 times hourly rate.

Vehicles / insurance and uniforms will be supplied. Please bring your own steel toe caps.

Job Type:
Temporary

Job Types:
Full-time, Graduate, Internship, Temporary contract

Contract length: 10 weeks

Salary:
£11.50 per hour

Benefits:

Company events
Free parking

Schedule:

10 hour shift
8 hour shift
Day shift
Monday to Friday
Night shift
Overtime
Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location:
One location

Application deadline: 27/01/2023

Reference ID:
Board Fitter and Driver - Fringe Festival

Expected start date: 10/07/2023