Project Manager

Tetra Tech, Inc.; Ashford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technical project firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to lead multidisciplinary teams and deliver outstanding results in complex live productions. The ideal candidate will have over six years of experience in creative lighting design and a strong ability to communicate with clients to understand their objectives. The role involves hands-on leadership of technical teams, producing quotations, and refining client briefs to ensure exceptional outcomes, alongside competitive growth opportunities and support for professional development.

Benefits

Personal growth opportunities

Team-building experiences

Comprehensive private healthcare

Generous pension plan

Qualifications

• Minimum of six years' experience in creative lighting design and systems.
• Ability to integrate lighting design in complex event environments.
• Strong understanding of audio, video, and scenic technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate technical teams across multiple projects.
• Produce accurate quotations and proposals for clients.
• Monitor team performance and provide constructive feedback.

Skills

Creative lighting design

Technical team leadership

Client communication

Problem-solving

Job description

Overview

As our Senior Technical Project Manager, you will lead multidisciplinary 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.

Responsibilities

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 expertise.
• 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.

Role Details

• Reports To: Director of Production
• Schedule: Core Hours – Monday to Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, with flexibility required for evening & weekend working
• Location: Hertfordshire (25 min from central London)
• Holiday: 30 Days including Bank Holidays

Benefits

• Personal growth opportunities
• Community building experiences: birthdays, company days out, pool tournaments
• Health benefits: comprehensive private healthcare and dental plans, enhanced company sick pay
• Growth & development: high‑spec computers and software, generous pension plan, long‑service reward scheme, continuous learning and development opportunities
• Fun team activities and rewards for hard work