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Lighting Technician resume template

A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what lighting technicians actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.

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Lighting Technician resume template preview: an Australian example with a professional summary, key skills, experience bullet points and education sections filled in

Which resume format should you use?

Reverse chronological

You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.

Functional

You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.

Combination

You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.

This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most lighting technicians should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.

Professional summary

Lighting technician working across live performance, events and screen, with hands-on experience rigging, focusing, programming and operating lighting systems. Comfortable taking a design from plan to first cue, and keeping a rig running through a season or a tour. Works well under bump-in pressure and communicates clearly with designers, stage managers and crew.

Key skills

  • Rigging and focusing lighting fixtures
  • Lighting console programming and show operation
  • Risk assessment and electrical safety compliance
  • Maintenance and repair of lighting equipment
  • Collaboration with designers and directors
  • GrandMA3
  • ETC Eos
  • Vectorworks Spotlight
  • QLab
  • DMX, sACN and Art-Net networking
  • Time and deadline management
  • Attention to detail
  • Written communication

Experience: example bullet points

  • Rigged, focused and plotted a 60-fixture rig for a touring production, delivering the designer's plan on schedule across a two-day bump-in.
  • Programmed and operated lighting cues on GrandMA3 for a season of live shows, running a cue stack of more than 200 cues per performance without missing a cue.
  • Diagnosed and repaired moving lights, dimmer racks and LED fixtures in the workshop, returning faulty units to the hire pool within the same week instead of sending them out for service.
  • Redrew a lighting plan in Vectorworks Spotlight after a venue change, which cut the first-day refocus time and kept the production on its existing schedule.
  • Completed risk assessments, test and tag checks and rigging inspections on hired fixtures before load-in, keeping the rig compliant with WHS requirements and venue inductions.
  • Worked with the lighting designer and stage manager during technical rehearsals to adjust followspot and front-of-house focus, tightening the look before opening night.

Education

Certificate III or IV in Live Production and Technical Services, or a Diploma of Live Production and Technical Services, with many technicians also entering through years of venue crew work or a bachelor degree in technical production or design.

Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for

Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.

Getting past ATS screening

This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.