Depending on your role, your day-to-day tasks may include:

• interpreting a lighting designer's plan
• carrying out risk assessments for health and safety purposes
• planning where to run cables and place lights at film locations
• helping to rig and check the equipment
• taking cues from the stage manager in theatre or the floor manager in TV
• programming and operating manual and computer-controlled lighting systems taking down the equipment after shows or filming

You may need to wear protective clothing.

You could work at a film studio, on a film set, at events, in a theatre or at a TV studio.

Your working environment may be hot, outdoors some of the time, at height and you may spend nights away from home.

You could work on more complex events, or specialise in areas like electrical safety, inspection and testing, pyrotechnics or rigging.