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Solotech is not accepting Agency/Recruiter submissions The Systems Designer
- AV & Integrated Solutions is a key specialist within the Application Support team, focusing on pre-sales and bid-stage activities for integrated AV, lighting, control, and infrastructure systems. Collaborating with Business Development Managers, the role ensures proposals are based on real delivery experience, maintaining technical ownership from pre-sales to project delivery. This role enhances pre-sales technical capacity, leading concept design development while working with Application Support engineers to verify and validate bid-stage outputs. It ensures shared design ownership and continuity, reducing risks and supporting efficient project execution. Operating within established technical frameworks, the Systems Designer focuses on life-safety and compliance-driven systems, collaborating with the Lead Applications Engineer & Solutions Architect. After project award, the role facilitates a structured handover, supporting detailed design development and validation, ultimately ensuring delivery success. Why Solotech? As a global leader in live productions, systems integration and virtual technology, our team is comprised of more than 2,000 passionate individuals. Our ambition? To deliver spectacular experiences worldwide. Your day will look like: Pre-Sales & Bid Support Act as primary technical liaison for Business Development Managers, leading the development of high-level system designs, schematics, and technical proposals aligned to client requirements and commercial constraints. Assess technical feasibility, identify key risks and dependencies, and support bid-stage review processes, engaging with clients, consultants, and stakeholders as required. Support the preparation of written technical proposals and technical approach documents, translating system designs into clear, client-facing narratives that communicate solution intent and delivery confidence. Produce supporting drawings, technical overviews, and system diagrams to accompany proposals, with CAD drafting team support available to assist with workload where needed. Collaborative Design Development & Validation Work closely with Application Support engineers across all disciplines to ensure early-stage designs benefit from delivery experience and are subject to proportionate validation prior to submission. Facilitate shared ownership of design intent, reducing handover risk and supporting continuity from initial concept through to project delivery. Technical Governance & Architectural Alignment Operate within established technical frameworks and solution architectures, escalating deviations or high-risk decisions to the Lead Applications Engineer & Solutions Architect for review. Maintain consistency and quality across all pre-sales outputs, with particular diligence for compliance-driven systems such as life-safety and PAVA. Handover to Delivery & Design Continuity Support structured handover into project delivery, providing clear documentation of design intent, assumptions, and identified constraints for Application Support engineers responsible for implementation. Collaborate with delivery engineers during early project stages to refine designs, ensuring continuity without duplicating ownership or bypassing detailed design validation. Continuous Improvement & Knowledge Sharing Contribute to pre-sales standards, templates, and best-practice development, sharing learning from delivery and service feedback to improve future bids. Maintain awareness of emerging AV technologies and support alignment between pre-sales activity and delivery capability. Undertake any other duties as reasonably requested. Ad-hoc Any other reasonable ad-hoc requests as required by your manager. Work experience: 5+ years’ experience, or demonstrable experience, in AV systems integration, applications engineering, or technical design, with strong pre-sales or bid-stage design experience. Essential skills / experience: Broad understanding of integrated AV systems (audio, video, lighting, control) Ability to produce high-level system designs, schematics, and technical documentation. Experience working within multi-disciplinary engineering teams across project lifecycle stages, with awareness of structured design validation and governance principles. Confident communicator, able to engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders; Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple bids and priorities simultaneously. Proficiency with MS Office and adaptable to new systems. Process-driven with high attention to accuracy. Proactive in identifying and solving problems. Desirable skills / experience: Experience with life-safety or compliance-driven systems (e.g. PAVA). Familiarity with CAD/BIM tools (AutoCAD, Vectorworks, Revit or equivalent). Experience supporting large-scale or complex AV integration projects. Essential requirements: Right to work and remain in the UK. Full Clean Drivers Licence. Ability to travel throughout the UK including overnight stays from time to time. Level of education: Educated to Degree level (or equivalent) or relevant work experience. Our offer to you: Competitive Medical Cash Plan Generous holiday allowance, 25 days + bank holidays Employee Assistance Program: free counselling, legal support & 24.7 help line Opportunities for training and career advancement Pension plan with employer contribution Cycle to Work Scheme And more We appreciate your time and look forward to considering your application! Find out more at: www.solotech.com #indUK3 #LI-JR1