Employment type: Freelance
Location: Scotland, working between Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee
Hours: 6.30am to 14.30pm
We are looking for freelance Set builders and Installers to support our Creative Studio team. You’ll be involved in creative building installations and special builds on site.
You will have confidence in your carpentry skills, possess a UK drivers licence, comfortable working at ladder height, and at your happiest when being challenged to create something new and exciting.
You will be hard working, conscientious, reliable, methodical, have a great attention to detail and be willing to get stuck in, making sure sets are built safely to specific deadline and instruction. With the role requiring early starts, and to sometimes arrive promptly to location and communicating back to the team. This role is on an adhoc basis and would be project dependent.
We have a huge amount of outdoor poster frames and sites across Scotland and the UK, that are used by our Creative Studio team to create spill boards, which see elements of the artwork extending up and beyond the confines of the frame. We’ve been known to add large 3D props to sites, lights, sound, vinyl’s and smoke machines. We also help clients bring experiential ideas and campaigns to life, providing set, actors, and locations.
You would be able to read technical drawings and mock-ups to convert into construction.
The role sometimes requires a willingness to work with new materials and mediums, to take an experimental approach to find creative solutions. Requiring an ability to work with a large range of materials and in multiple mediums and can independently source sustainable solutions to build projects.
About BUILDHOLLYWOOD
BUILDHOLLYWOOD is dedicated to placing creativity in the heart of our cities. As the UK’s leading street advertising specialist, we develop, curate and offer street poster space to a range of clients within the music, fashion, arts and culture sectors. BUILDHOLLYWOOD creates the space and our family of agencies, DIABOLICAL, JACK and JACK ARTS work with clients to bring their campaigns to life on the street.
Built on an art school mentality that stretches back decades to our founder, we have a talented family of agencies – DIABOLICAL, JACK and JACK ARTS – who specialise in their own sectors to produce street-level poster campaigns, creative billboards, hand-painted murals, interactive installations, ambient activities, and unique experiential campaigns, creating authentic interactions with people on the street.
This combination of format, creativity and position is unique to BUILDHOLLYWOOD. It’s the reason why we work and collaborate with the most exciting brands, artists and creative institutions in the world.
BUILDHOLLYWOOD is committed to creating an environment that is inclusive to all, where everyone is treated with kindness and respect. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Do reach out to let us know if there’s any actions we can take to better support an environment where you feel comfortable.
Please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements at any stage of the recruitment process. We are always open to ideas from our candidates that help us to make our processes more inclusive.
How to apply:
You can apply for the position here.