Technical Project Manager

Wise Productions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise Productions seeks a Technical Project Manager in London to lead the design and execution of creative events. The role demands strong expertise in lighting, audio, and video, coupled with excellent client communication skills. You'll be responsible for ensuring technical solutions meet client expectations while leading diverse teams through all project phases. This hybrid position requires collaboration with various teams, and offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to high-end events in unique venues across London.

Qualifications

• Broad working knowledge of lighting, sound, video, rigging, staging, and power.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proactive and quick to respond to client needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and onsite execution for events.
• Communicate with clients and project stakeholders throughout the lifecycle.
• Conduct site assessments and technical surveys.

Skills

Technical expertise in production disciplines

Client focus and communication

Project management

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Job description

Location: London, United Kingdom (hybrid)

Hours: 9:30-5:30pm, Monday to Friday

Who We Are

Wise Productions is an employee-owned creative events production company based in London, with a talented team of over 55 Co-Owners. With a longstanding commitment to innovation, excellence, and a client-centric approach, we pride ourselves on delivering unforgettable event experiences in the UK’s most beautiful venues.

Our core values—enthusiasm, dependability, collaboration, and a client-first mentality—are at the heart of everything we do. Our recruitment process is designed to identify candidates who genuinely share these values. For the right person, this is an exciting opportunity to join a respected company and play a key role in our future as we continue to grow through the strength of our employee-ownership model.

Position Overview

We are seeking a technically accomplished and highly client-focussed Technical Project Manager to lead the design, planning, and onsite execution of our creative event productions. This role is responsible for developing integrated technical solutions across lighting, audio, video, rigging, staging, and power—and ensuring these are delivered flawlessly in line with client expectations, creative direction, and venue regulations.

As a key client-facing role, you’ll act as a trusted technical advisor throughout the project lifecycle—communicating clearly and confidently with clients, venue teams, and senior stakeholders. You’ll combine deep cross-discipline technical expertise with the interpersonal skills to guide non-technical clients through complex solutions, always with professionalism, clarity, and a client-focussed mindset.

You’ll work across a diverse range of high-end events in the Unique Venues of London and beyond, collaborating with our Creative, Projects and Operations teams to deliver work that is technically robust, creatively aligned, and logistically sound.

What Makes Us Unique

• Experience – With a legacy of excellence and a trusted reputation, we bring deep knowledge and proven expertise to every event.
• Partnership – We make the process seamless, offering a single responsive point of contact and acting with professionalism at every step.
• Creativity – Our creativity is strategic as well as stylish—offering fresh ideas, bespoke solutions, and distinctive flair for every brief.

Role Key Accountabilities

• Client & Stakeholder Communication: Act as the lead technical contact for clients, venues, and project stakeholders—ensuring responsive, clear, and professional communication throughout all project stages.
• Technical Design & Specification: Translate creative briefs into detailed technical solutions across lighting, audio, video, rigging, staging and power—producing drawings, kit lists and specifications.
• Site Assessments & Feasibility: Conduct site visits and technical surveys to evaluate venue constraints, infrastructure, access and regulatory requirements; advise on viable and innovative solutions.
• Supplier & Crew Coordination: Scope, source and brief equipment suppliers and freelance technicians—ensuring appropriate resourcing, clear roles and alignment with delivery expectations.
• Onsite Technical Leadership: Lead technical teams through build, live and de-rig phases—ensuring safe, timely and high-standard execution, with efficient troubleshooting and issue resolution.
• Health & Safety & Compliance: Own all H&S aspects of technical delivery—producing RAMS, ensuring CDM compliance where applicable, and coordinating safety with venues and contractors.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Creative, Production and Logistics teams to integrate technical planning into wider project workflows—ensuring cohesive, efficient and high-quality delivery.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Translate client briefs and creative direction into practical, high-quality technical plans.
• Attend client meetings and planning calls, providing confident and clear technical guidance.
• Act as a responsive and professional point of contact for clients, venues and partners throughout planning and delivery.
• Conduct thorough site assessments to scope infrastructure, rigging, power and access requirements.
• Identify when specialist technical expertise is required and engage appropriate freelance expertise, subcontractors or internal specialists to support particularly complex elements of a project.
• Produce and maintain Vectorworks drawings, kit lists and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with our partner equipment supplier to understand in-house kit capabilities and prioritise its use in technical designs where aligned with the brief.
• Plan ahead with the supplier to confirm availability of key equipment and identify sub-hire needs early, ensuring cost‑efficiency and smooth delivery.
• Maintain key project management systems with up-to-date information to support planning and visibility across internal teams and partner suppliers.
• Brief crew and subcontractors clearly, and oversee on‑site delivery to ensure adherence to safety, conduct, cleanliness and venue expectations.
• Lead technical teams during install and live periods, troubleshooting issues calmly and efficiently.
• Ensure sustainability, efficiency and Wise Productions’ quality standards are maintained throughout.
• Debrief projects with internal teams to support continuous improvement in technical delivery.

Core Competencies

• Technical Expertise: Broad working knowledge of all core production disciplines—lighting, sound, video, rigging, staging and power—with deeper strength in at least one area.
• Client Focus & Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Professional, confident, and presentable in client‑facing settings—including with senior stakeholders and key venue staff.
• Responsiveness: Naturally proactive, quick to respond and solutions-focused—able to manage changing priorities and client needs in real time.
• Project Management: Skilled in planning, documentation and coordination across multiple projects and stakeholders.
• Problem Solving: Calm under pressure, logical and practical in high‑stakes live event environments.
• Collaboration: Works seamlessly across disciplines and departments to ensure technical solutions support the creative and production vision.
• Health & Safety Awareness: Solid understanding of relevant safety regulations, including CDM and RAMS.

Wise Productions is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and supports requests for flexible working arrangements where possible. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status or gender identity. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and actively encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, particularly those underrepresented in the events and production industry.