Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technicians and Audio-Visual Operators

How to become a sound engineering technician

Official title: Sound engineering technician

Also called: Microphone operator, Recording tester, Sound amplifying equipment operator (public address), Sound editor (motion picture film), Sound mixer, Sound recording equipment operator, Wire recording equipment operator, Boom Operator, Sound Editor/Sound Engineer, Sound Recordist, Sound Specialist (Sound Operator), Sound Specialist

Sound engineering technician maintains and operates equipment to record, synchronise, mix, edit, or reproduce sound, including music, voices, or sound effects, for theatre, video, film, television, podcasts, sporting events, and other productions.

Main tasks

Controlling equipment to record sound
Controlling equipment to edit and mix image and sound recordings to ensure satisfactory quality and to create special image and sound effects
Applying knowledge of principles and practices of image and sound recording and editing in order to identify and solve problems

Ways in

Polytechnic or ITE: Polytechnic diploma. Related diplomas: Diploma in Film, Sound & Video (Ngee Ann Polytechnic). Peernovo matched these from course names; polytechnics do not publish which jobs each course leads to.

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Questions people ask

How do I become a sound engineering technician?

Ways in include: Polytechnic diploma.

Will AI change the work of a sound engineering technician?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026