Freelance Event Production Manager

Kudos AV Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

IOSH or similar safety qualification

P.I. insurance (PLI)

Vectorworks literacy

Full UK driving licence

Job summary

Kudos AV Ltd. is looking for an experienced production manager to own on-site delivery of conferences, award ceremonies, brand activations, and live events across London and the UK. You will oversee site management, schedules, crews and client liaison to ensure flawless execution with the full team behind you.

The role requires calm authority, deep knowledge of technical departments, and willingness to travel regionally. Familiarity with speed, safety, and on-site problem solving is essential.

Qualifications

• Several years running live event production, with shows of real scale to your name.
• Fluent across the technical departments; you do not need the desk explained.
• Calm authority with crews, venues and clients.
• Able to run events across London and the UK.

Responsibilities

• Site manage load ins, show days and de-rigs against the production schedule.
• Run crews across sound, lighting, video, staging and scenic.
• Hold the client relationship on site and make calls when the plan meets the venue.
• Close out shows properly: paperwork, damages, lessons and thanks.

Skills

Site management

Crew management

Client relationship

Production scheduling

Live events

Tools

Vectorworks

Job description

Run shows for us when the calendar stacks up: site management, crew and schedule on corporate events, awards and activations.

Kudos AV produces conferences, award ceremonies, brand activations, exhibitions and private events across London and the UK, around 500 a year, from our base in Uxbridge. The core team is full time; when a build needs more hands we book freelancers we know, and the people who do good work get booked again and again.

For production management that means taking a planned show and delivering it: owning the site, the schedule, the crew and the client on the day, with our office behind you and the kit list already fought over.

What you will do

• Site manage load ins, show days and de-rigs against the production schedule.
• Run crews across sound, lighting, video, staging and scenic.
• Hold the client relationship on site and make calls when the plan meets the venue.
• Close out shows properly: paperwork, damages, lessons and thanks.

What we are looking for

• Several years running live event production, with shows of real scale to your name.
• Fluent across the technical departments; you do not need the desk explained.
• Calm authority with crews, venues and clients.
• Able to run events across London and the UK.

Useful but not essential

• IOSH or similar safety qualification and your own PLI.
• Vectorworks literacy, enough to read and mark up a plan.
• A full UK driving licence.