Junior Production Manager

DRPG; Larkhill; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

DRPG is seeking a seasoned events technical delivery lead based in Hartlebury, with hands-on experience across conferences, concerts, and live productions. You will drive technical delivery, coordinate diverse teams, and ensure seamless experiences for clients.

You’ll manage budgets, liaise with clients, develop proposals, ensure safety compliance, and explore new technologies to keep our production values at the cutting edge.

Qualifications

• Two+ years in technical delivery, on agency or production company.
• Experience across conferences, concerts, hospitality events and activations.
• Streaming and broadcast knowledge.
• Strong understanding of production process and timelines.
• Excellent communication, literacy and numeracy.
• Experience with stage machinery, electrics, sound and lighting.
• Ability to read CAD drawings.
• Excellent client service and relationship building.
• Current driving licence.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.
• Independent, proactive and flexible.

Responsibilities

• Lead from the front and motivate the team, ensuring procedures and legislation are followed.
• Work to a budget set by the client and manage financials accurately.
• Pro‑active staffing management to meet budget targets and maintain high standards.
• Provide adequate technical support before, during and after events.
• Line manage technicians, freelancers and casual crew per event.
• Attend site visits and production meetings as required.
• Work with Health and Safety to risk‑assess events.
• Assist in costing and production of client proposals.
• Act as client liaison and build strong relationships.
• Assess technical requirements and potential costs for future events.
• Coordinate with other departments to maximise income.
• Maintain high production standards.
• Coordinate lighting, sound, video, set, staging, electrical infra, AV.
• Complete reconciliation for event spend.
• Ensure events comply with Premises Licence regulations.
• Liaise with licensing, safety and emergency officials as required.
• Promote DRPG’s equal opportunities policy.
• Research new technologies for live projects.

Skills

Technical delivery

Event production

Streaming knowledge

CAD drawings

Job description

Your reason for being here…

Everyone here at DRPG has a purpose, and yours is to inspire audiences with unforgettably unexpected and seamless experiences that are absolute perfection!

Your reason for being here…

Everyone here at DRPG has a purpose, and yours is to inspire audiences with unforgettably unexpected and seamless experiences that are absolute perfection!

The way you roll…

Your innate love of event production makes you a practical problem solver with a super imagination, and you’re calm (blue ocean) no matter whether you’re dealing with colleagues, clients, artists or venue teams. You never break a sweat when juggling diverse projects all with tight deadlines, and your eagle eye will make sure every detail is exactly as it should be. The best part? You naturally deliver on our philosophy of ‘anything’s possible’.

How You Make It All Possible…

• Leading from the front and motivating and supporting your team, ensuring all staff are working in accordance with relevant procedures and legislation
• Working to a budget set by the client and ensuring all financial matters are managed and recorded accurately
• Pro‑active management of staffing levels on an event‑by‑event basis will be required to ensure budgetary targets are met and high standards and production values are maintained
• Ensuring adequate and appropriate technical support is provided in advance, during and following events
• Line managing the team of technical staff, directing the work of permanent technicians, freelance partners and casual crew on an event‑by‑event basis
• Attending site visits and production meetings as required
• Working in conjunction with our Health and Safety team, ensuring events and activities are risk‑assessed
• Assisting in the costing and production of client proposals based on their briefs
• Acting as a client liaison and maintaining and building strong client relationships
• Assessing the technical requirements of future events to ensure compatibility with venues and to determine potential costs
• Working with other departments to determine requirements for events and maximising income from these events
• Maintaining high standards of production for all events
• Co‑ordinating lighting, sound, video, set and staging, electrical infrastructure, communications, and any other technical equipment necessary for events
• Completing reconciliation for all event spend including credit cards, fuel expenses and weekend pay
• Ensuring events run in line with regulations pertaining to the Premises Licence
• Liaising with licensing, safety and emergency service officials as required and obtaining special permissions where required (pyro, laser, radio mic etc.)
• Promoting and complying with DRPG’s policy on equal opportunities both in delivery of services and treatment of others
• Researching new technologies to be incorporated into live projects

What’s In Your Toolbox…

• Two+ years in technical delivery, working with either an agency or a production company
• Impressive experience in a variety of types of events including conferences, concerts/evening events, hospitality experiences and consumer activations
• Enviable streaming and broadcast knowledge
• A superb understanding of the production process and resource/timescales needed to realise production requirements
• Fabulous communication skills with top literacy and numeracy skills
• Remarkable experience of professional stage machinery/electrics/sound/lighting communications and audio‑visual techniques
• A thrilling ability to read/interpret CAD drawings
• Terrific customer service levels - we want our clients to adore working with you!
• Current driving licence
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally (jet setter)
• Ability to work independently, proactively and flexibly

Desirable

• The ability to design and draw in both 2D and 3D
• Fantastic financial skills
• Remarkable leadership skills to the staff and crew on your events
• Unbeatable management skills, allowing you to successfully own your projects and all aspects of them

Get to know us…

We’re one of the most unexpectedly all-round capable communications agencies that’s been on the go for years, ever since our head honcho set up shop in a shed back in 1980, in fact.

Since then, we’ve made it our mission to make anything possible for our many and varied clients, putting our creative flair into delivering strategic communication campaigns, digital solutions, film and videos, events, exhibitions, and a whole lot more in between. We’ve grown a lot, but we’ve kept everything that made us great, back from the very day we first started out. Our global HQ and largest studios are smack bang in the middle of the UK and well worth a visit to see for yourself!

Hang on, there’s more…

The role will be based primarily in our Hartlebury office, but there will be times when you’ll need to work from our other offices and undertake other related commercial duties both in the UK and overseas. Flexibility is key!

We’re a friendly team. We really, really welcome anyone who wants to become part of a brilliant company. If you’re passionate with a cracking drive to deliver on our ‘anything’s possible’ mindset, we’d love to hear from you!

DRPG is an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you’re excited about this role, we would love to hear from you and look forward to receiving your application.

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