eDiscovery Senior Technical Specialist

Kainos; Ashford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic production company is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to lead multi-disciplinary teams in delivering technical excellence for live productions. This role requires strong expertise in creative lighting design, with a minimum of six years in client-facing environments. The ideal candidate will communicate effectively with clients to translate objectives into solutions and mentor a team while ensuring high standards of execution. Benefits include comprehensive healthcare, growth opportunities, and a vibrant working culture.

Benefits

Comprehensive private healthcare

Generous pension plan

Continuous learning and development

Fun team activities

Qualifications

• Minimum of six years experience in creative lighting design and systems within client-facing environments.
• Ability to engage with clients and translate their objectives into creative solutions.
• Solid understanding of audio, video, and scenic technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-disciplinary teams in delivering technical excellence across live productions.
• Maintain excellent client communications to build relationships.
• Produce accurate and professional quotations and proposals.
• Coordinate multiple technical departments onsite during delivery.

Skills

Creative lighting design

Technical leadership

Client communication

Team coordination

Audio/video knowledge

Job description

As our Senior Technical Project Manager, you will lead multi‑disciplinary teams in delivering technical excellence across our most ambitious live productions. We’re specifically looking for someone with strong lighting experience, capable of integrating creative lighting design and systems into complex event environments while collaborating closely across sound, video, and scenic disciplines.

With a minimum of six years experience in creative lighting design and systems within client‑facing environments, you’ll take ownership of key projects from concept to completion, ensuring every stage of delivery reflects our core values of creativity, passion, and excellence.

Your specialist lighting expertise will enable you to shape compelling visual environments and support others in achieving the same high standards. Alongside this, you’ll bring a solid understanding of related disciplines audio, video, and scenic technologies and a willingness to deepen your knowledge across the wider technical landscape.

A confident and proactive communicator, you’ll engage with a broad mix of clients to understand their objectives and translate them into commercially sound, creatively driven solutions. You’ll approach every brief with both imagination and strategic insight, ensuring exceptional results without compromising financial performance.

As a technical leader, you’ll guide teams and projects with clarity and purpose, coordinating departments, delegating effectively, and maintaining open communication throughout. You’ll mentor colleagues, nurture emerging talent, and uphold rigorous technical standards to ensure flawless execution. Your ability to build strong relationships, manage resources wisely, and spot opportunities for growth will make you a vital contributor to our continued success.

Typical Workday

• Maintain excellent client communications in person and remotely to build relationships and confidence
• Receive and analyse client briefs with a willingness to ask lots of questions
• Respond to client briefs with considered questions, suggestions and professional wisdom
• Work with other team members to develop responses to briefs, leveraging others’ technical excellence and growing others with your technical excellence
• Produce accurate and well‑thought‑out quotations and proposals that answer client pain‑points effectively
• Work with clients to fine‑tune briefs, ensuring we deliver world‑class results
• Lead and motivate technical teams across multiple projects
• Produce equipment specifications and technical documentation
• Lead onsite delivery, coordinating multiple technical departments
• Monitor team performance and provide constructive and thoughtful feedback
• Adapt swiftly to changing requirements while keeping teams aligned

Benefits

We believe in keeping our team happy and motivated. Join us and enjoy perks like personal growth opportunities, community building, great health benefits, fun team activities, and rewards for your hard work. It’s all about thriving inside and outside work.

• Community: Celebrations such as birthdays, company days out, morning pastries and fresh fruit, in‑house pool tournaments.
• Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive private healthcare and dental plans, enhanced company sick pay.
• Growth & Development: High‑spec computers and software, generous pension plan, continuous learning and development, milestone rewards.

The Role Details

Reports To: Director of Production

Schedule: Core Hours – Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm, with flexibility required for evening & weekend working

Location: Hertfordshire (25min from central London)

Holiday: 30 Days including Bank Holidays