Senior Events Engineer

Senior Events Engineer at Verigent Senior Events Engineer at Verigent in Whippany, New Jersey Posted in about 2 hours ago.

Type:

full-time

Job Description:

Job Title :

Senior Events Engineer Location :

East Hanover, NJ Position Type :

Full-time, Direct Hire Salary Range :

$95-115,000 (or higher/negotiable based on experience)

Summary :

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Events Engineer to lead technical delivery for offsite events, studio productions, and auditorium-based executive events. This role is responsible for planning, operating, and continuously improving high-visibility live, hybrid, and virtual event environments that support C-Suite executives, senior leadership, internal stakeholders, and external audiences.

Responsibilities :

• Lead technical operations for live, hybrid, and virtual productions, ensuring consistent execution across studio, on-site, auditorium, and remote environments.
• Provide end-to-end technical support for high-visibility executive meetings and events, including C-Suite presentations, leadership town halls, offsites, webcasts, broadcasts, and large-scale auditorium productions.
• Manage and coordinate a team of engineers, technicians, and freelancers, including scheduling, coverage planning, role assignments, and on-site execution.
• Serve as the primary technical escalation point during live events, troubleshooting issues in real time and coordinating resolution across internal teams, vendors, and production partners.
• Partner with internal stakeholders, event owners, vendors, and clients to align on requirements, event objectives, technical scope, service expectations, and delivery standards.
• Support, configure, and operate enterprise collaboration and streaming platforms including Microsoft Teams, GlobalMeet.
• Create, schedule, and manage webcasting and live broadcast events across multiple regions and business groups.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation including signal flows, runbooks, process guides, support procedures, room standards, and best practices to enable repeatable delivery.
• Conduct equipment planning, resource allocation, and cost analysis to support effective use of budgets and production resources.
• Coordinate with service providers and technical vendors to gather requirements, validate readiness, resolve issues, and ensure delivery within expected service levels.
• Support end users in the operation of AV and collaboration technologies, providing white-glove assistance and guidance as needed.
• Perform room and event space readiness checks, certifications, and preventative maintenance to established operational standards.

Qualifications :

• Proven experience in a senior AV, broadcast, or event production engineering role supporting enterprise meeting environments and executive events.
• Demonstrated experience supporting C-Suite and senior leadership in high-visibility, time-sensitive environments.
• Strong technical knowledge of AV fundamentals, including signal flow, audio reinforcement and conferencing, video switching, camera framing, lighting basics, streaming workflows, and troubleshooting methodology.
• Hands-on experience supporting live, hybrid, virtual, and webcast productions across studio, auditorium, and offsite settings.
• Strong working knowledge of collaboration and event production platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, GlobalMeet.
• Experience leading or coordinating technical teams, freelancers, or cross-functional event support resources.
• Excellent customer service, communication, and professionalism, with the ability to interact confidently with senior leadership, executive support staff, vendors, and clients.
• Strong organizational and planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent events and competing priorities.