Kforce has a client that is seeking an Audio-Visual Engineer in Holyoke, MA. Summary: The Audio-Visual Engineer Consultant must be a technology specialist with in-depth knowledge and experience conceptualizing, designing, and operating AV systems. The candidate will work on designing, installing, and supporting cutting-edge AV conferencing solutions, bringing designs to fruition, test systems, diagnose issues, and ensure optimal performance and managing of audio/visual projects from planning stages to completion, providing recommendations to mitigate project risks. Primary Responsibilities: * Work within a team with internal customers to conceptualize, design and incorporate A/V systems required to support a variety of A/V events and room configurations; Provide onsite and/or remote support for company A/V systems, and large company events and meetings requiring A/V and multimedia * Assist with the transport, set-up/breakdown, testing, troubleshooting and operation of audio/visual systems for supporting, primarily, large off-site committee and working group meetings * Consult on A/V system (LED displays, LCD displays, video walls, CMS) requirements and costs estimates * Design and specify power and data requirements for A/V systems; Create detailed system diagrams and cabling line drawings for A/V systems * Support and perform the commissioning process on site in coordination with the install team * Design, select and specify hardware, cabling, and software for systems such as: Media players, video processors, video distribution systems, Computer systems, graphics cards, audio cards, network cards, Content management systems (CMS); Show control systems: Crestron, Extron, AMX, KVM systems, multi-viewers, video matrices; Collaboration Platforms: Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex & Zoom; Interactive systems: cameras, sensors, touch interfaces, Projection mapping systems: projectors, lenses