Audio Visual Operations Manager | Wilmington DE Job at Gecko Hospitality in Wilm
Gecko Hospitality, Wilmington, DE, US, 19810
Job Description
Audio Visual Operations Manager
Hotel Event Production | Wilmington, DE | Salary up to 55k plus Commission!
Bring your AV expertise to the heart of hospitality! We’re searching for a hands-on Audio Visual Operations Manager to lead hotel event production, manage a skilled AV team, and deliver flawless live experiences. If you’re passionate about event technology, guest service, and leadership, this role puts you at the center of it all.
Key Responsibilities
- Hotel AV Leadership: Oversee daily AV operations for meetings, conferences, galas, banquets, and live events—ensuring setup, operation, and teardown are delivered with precision and efficiency.
- Team Management: Schedule, delegate, and mentor a team of AV technicians, building a culture of accountability, service excellence, and continuous growth.
- Technical Expertise: Serve as lead technician for multiple breakout sessions and general sessions, operating audio, video, lighting, and staging equipment.
- Inventory & Equipment Management: Maintain accurate equipment records, manage shipping and receiving, and implement strong inventory control practices.
- Client & Guest Service: Build strong client relationships, address event needs in real time, and ensure every AV detail enhances the guest experience while maximizing onsite revenue.
Qualifications
- Proven experience in audio visual management or event production, ideally in a hotel, conference center, or hospitality environment.
- Strong leadership and coaching abilities to inspire and develop a team.
- Hands-on knowledge of audio, video, and lighting systems.
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple events simultaneously.
- Strong communication and client service orientation.
Why You’ll Love This Role
Every event is an opportunity to create something unforgettable—and you’ll be the driving force behind making it happen. We offer:
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Opportunities for professional development
- A collaborative environment where your technical expertise and leadership make a lasting impact
Step into a role where technology, hospitality, and leadership meet—and help create experiences that guests will remember long after the event ends.
Our national network consists of 37 regional offices that are driven to meet the needs of the hospitality industry. In addition, Gecko Hospitality offers the largest selection of hospitality jobs, restaurant jobs, hotel jobs, resort jobs and club management jobs online. Our specialized, hospitality-focused team covers all 50 states and Canada with over 80 Franchise Partners and recruiters. Gecko Hospitality was founded on providing the finest restaurant jobs nationwide to the highest performing candidates. More importantly, our Franchise Partners and recruiters began their careers in hospitality and there is no finer training ground for recruiting than real life experience.
At Gecko Hospitality, we are passionate about making sure that every member of our recruiting team is familiar with our philosophies. In the same way that we learn about people when developing relationships and friendships, we want our people to have a sense of Gecko Hospitality's values and insight into our company's "personality." With this insight comes a greater understanding of how values "fit" with Gecko Hospitality's values, why we do things the way we do as well as providing a basis for making decisions that are appropriate to those values. We all play a part in keeping these traditions and philosophies alive.
We want every member of our recruiting team to understand that we are only as good as how well we follow these philosophies on an every day basis. Gecko Hospitality is all about achieving results by being motivated. This motivation to achieve results comes from within. No one can motivate us, nor can we motivate anyone else. As leaders, all that we can do is provide an environment where people motivate themselves to achieve mutually beneficial goals. Along with this philosophy, each team member possesses the following traits for which we are proud: honesty, integrity, desire, determination, listening skills, rapid learning, responding in a timely manner, effective communication skills, thoroughness, empathy, compassion, and most of all we want every team member to have a strong work ethic that motivates them to produce superior results both for our candidates and for our Clients.
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