Technical Casual

ATG Entertainment UK; Manchester; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 28,000; Part time

Job summary

ATG Entertainment is seeking multiskilled casual technicians for Palace Theatre & Opera House in Manchester. You will join the venue Technical Team supporting productions and events, ensuring technical requirements are met.

The role requires working with visiting companies and fellow staff, maintaining safety, and delivering high-quality customer service. Essential criteria include stage/flying/light or sound experience, H&S knowledge, and the ability to work evenings, weekends and public

Qualifications

• Some relevant experience in stage, flying, lighting or sound environments.
• Working knowledge of current Health & Safety Regulations.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and take initiative.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills.
• Willingness to work the required hours including evenings, weekends and holidays.
• Physically capable of lifting equipment and working at height.

Responsibilities

• Welcome and assist visiting production technical staff and companies to the venue.
• Support full-time technical staff with fit-ups, shows and get outs.
• Maintain clean, safe work areas and assist with inspection/maintenance of stage machinery.
• Work safely and identify risks to health, safety, or security.
• Attend required training and develop relevant skills.
• Collaborate as a team to complete tasks with a professional attitude.

Skills

Stage experience

Flying systems knowledge

Lighting or sound environment

Health & Safety regulations

Work under pressure

Problem solving

Communication skills

Customer service

Evenings/weekends availability

Manual handling / lifting

Ability to work at height

Teamwork

Tools

Counterweight Flying Systems

Follow Spots operation

Job description

Interviews 27th October 2026 - Opera House

Induction 26th November 2026 - Palace Theatre

Seasonal contract up to 10th January 2027

Availability Across The Above Dates Is Essential

Casual technicians work as part of a team reporting to the Technical Manager, Chief Electrician or Stage Manager. You'll work closely with visiting companies, touring teams and contractors as well as other ATG Entertainment venue staff.

Working as part of the venue Technical Team you will support all productions and events programmed, ensuring their technical requirements are achieved. This role provides a professional, enabling and efficient service for all customers and visitors to ATG Entertainment's venues.

Please note, your role may involve working with children or vulnerable people and you must be 18+.

The Palace Theatre & Opera House are stunning, large-scale historic theatres located in the heart of Manchester City Centre. We host work from leading UK and international producers enabling the most spectacular West End and Broadways show to visit the Northwest alongside drama, classical and contemporary dance, live music, comedy and one-night specials. The theatres host around 650 performances each year, with longer runs of major musicals mixed with week-long tours and one-night shows. We work increasingly in partnership with producers to open new shows or launch national tours.

We are looking for multiskilled people, with particular experience in stage and follow spot desirable, and are keen to hear from people with a wide range of relevant skills and experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Welcome and assist visiting production technical staff and companies to the venue, ensuring they are treated appropriately and always as an important and valued client.
• Support the full-time technical staff in ensuring the smooth and efficient running of fit-ups, shows and get outs, in line with company policy, current health and safety legislation and the requirements of the visiting production or event.
• Take pride in your working environment at all times ensuring that work areas are clean, tidy and safe. Under the direction of the full-time technical staff assist as required in the inspection, servicing and maintenance of the stage machinery and production equipment.
• Work safely at all times, proactively identify risks to yourself, other colleagues and customers health, safety or security and take appropriate actions to keep everyone safe.
• Implement and comply with the company Health & Safety Policy, maintaining the safest possible environment for your colleagues, visiting companies and customers.
• Attend training as required developing skills and knowledge relevant to the role.
• Work collaboratively as a team member, working well with others to ensure all required tasks are completed. Maintain a can do, professional attitude.
• Proactively identify tasks which need to be done and take responsibility for completing them.

Your Skills, Qualities, And Experience.

We welcome transferable skills from other industries or backgrounds. We can give experience of any desirable criteria but may also use them to decide between candidates for this role.

Essential

• Some relevant experience in either stage, flying, lighting or sound environment.
• Working knowledge of current Health & Safety Regulations.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Problem solving skills and the ability to act on initiative.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to deliver a high level of customer service.
• Willingness and availability to work the required hours over the upcoming season, including evenings and late nights, weekends and public holidays.
• Physically able to lift and move technical equipment and scenic items safely and sensibly.
• Able to work at height which may include working on a grid and using ladders.
• Ability to work well as part of a team.

Desirable

• Working knowledge of Counterweight Flying Systems.
• Knowledge of the lighting and sound equipment we frequently use.
• Experience operating Follow Spots.
• Computer Literacy.
• Numeracy Skills.

The following training is desirable, but not essential as relevant training will be provided:

• Relevant Health and Safety Training Courses.
• First Aid Training.
• Working at Height Training.
• Industry training such as ABTT Bronze, Silver or Gold.
• Manual Handling Training.
• Relevant industry rigging training.

About Us - Our Values

ATG Entertainment's values set the tone for how we work, how we treat one another, and the culture we continue to build across the UK and the wider organisation.

• THRIVE doing what we love (with passion and dynamism)
• CONNECT through every act (with collaboration and kindness)
• DARE to do different (with curiosity and courage)
• PERFORM at our best (with customer focus and ownership)

Our Corporate Social Responsibility pillars

Everyone At ATG Entertainment Is Expected To Play Their Part In Achieving Our Goals And Upholding Our Corporate Social Responsibility Priorities

• Inclusion: Committing to creating and upholding a positive, inclusive culture that nurtures potential and supports well-being.
• Sustainability: Playing your part in reducing our environmental impact and finding more sustainable ways of working.
• Next Generations: Encouraging the next generation in live entertainment by contributing to our outreach and training programmes, including mentoring students and trainees, and supporting our Creative Learning and Community Partnerships work.

Our culture

You'll help us uphold a positive culture around meeting our obligations, by having a positive attitude to health and safety, legal and insurance requirements and take care to understand our policies and procedures. We are all expected to participate actively in the life of the company, and opportunities will arise for you to collaborate with others across the business. Everyone at ATG Entertainment is expected to be flexible and adapt as the needs of the business change, taking on new or different responsibilities as the need arises.

Our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Mission Statement - A Stage for Everyone

Our stages are a platform for compelling stories - stories that are for all, by all, and of all. We shine our spotlight on our differences and believe that understanding and celebrating these differences makes us better global citizens. We are passionate about the pursuit of true diversity and equality. We strive to make our venues beacons of these ideals in our communities. Onstage and off, we hold ourselves accountable for nurturing an inclusive culture, one in which everyone can bring their authentic selves. At ATG entertainment, we provide a stage for everyone. We recognise that we do not have all the answers; but we strive to listen, to learn and to change in order to ensure ATG Entertainment becomes a truly inclusive organisation. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from individuals from the widest possible range of backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from those currently underrepresented in our workforce.

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer, which means that we are taking action to ensure that people with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will offer an interview or recruitment event to disabled candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they best meet the essential criteria for the role. Where we receive more applications than we are reasonably able to interview for any given role, we will retain applications for the next available interview opportunity wherever possible.

If you'd like to discuss accessibility prior to applying, please email [e-mail] for a confidential discussion.