Production Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• At least 3 years of progressively responsible live-event production experience, including supervision.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent education and experience.
• OSHA 10 certification.
• Ability to manage concurrent event advances, budgets, labor plans, schedules, procurement, staff, and vendors, and to hire personnel.
• Working knowledge of rigging, stage systems, audio, lighting, video, power distribution, digital cinema/video, and live-event practices, with judgment to consult specialists.
• Ability to interpret riders, contracts, plots, schedules, and blueprints and convert them into executable plans.
• Knowledge of workplace, fire, life-safety, rigging, structural, electrical, and OSHA requirements.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and event, scheduling, task, document-sharing, and production-communication systems.
• Ability to prioritize, resolve conflicts, communicate under pressure, maintain records, and work independently with diverse partners.
• Ability to work event-driven hours, including evenings, weekends, holidays, early mornings, late-night strikes, and extended shifts.
• Ability to move between planning, supervision, coordination, and hands-on show leadership in active stage, backstage, loading, and technical environments.
• Ability to stand or walk for extended periods; climb stairs and ladders; use approved lifts; access restricted areas; and reach, stoop, crawl, push, and pull.
• Ability to lift and carry up to 25 pounds and occasionally up to 50 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Vectorworks, CAD, or similar drafting software.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned event advances from initial information through the final production plan.
• Serve as the theatre’s primary production contact for touring personnel, promoters, clients, vendors, and internal departments.
• Review riders, plots, schedules, contracts, and technical requirements and convert them into labor, equipment, rental, access, transportation, and scheduling plans.
• Manage concurrent advances, priorities, deadlines, and routine decisions within approved parameters.
• Coordinate public-area readiness, hospitality, backstage access, security, and related dependencies with Patron & Event Services.
• Maintain the authoritative event record, including decisions, changes, risks, owners, deadlines, schedules, crew calls, specifications, and production updates.
• Lead readiness meetings as needed, assign follow-up, and confirm completion.
• Provide show-day leaders with finalized labor, schedule, technical, rental, vendor, and risk information.
• Document material issues and provide final labor, rental, and production-cost information when appropriate.
• Develop and manage production budgets; monitor labor, rentals, supplies, transportation, and technical services; and report material variances.
• Hire, train, schedule, and supervise production staff, and coordinate personnel and vendor crews within approved plans and budgets.
• Procure equipment, rentals, supplies, and services; confirm compatibility, timing, and pricing; and arrange alternatives when house equipment is insufficient.
• Remain available during events for advance questions, client communication, budget impacts, and material scope changes.
• Lead or support show-day operations, breaks, late-night strikes, and technical setup, operation, or strike as staffing and training permit.
• Identify safety, access, rigging, electrical, life-safety, structural, and facility concerns; consult the Director on feasibility, exceptions, and controls.
• Document and communicate approved restrictions, elevate unresolved material concerns, and protect the historic building, technical assets, and property.
• Report equipment maintenance, repair, replacement, and inventory needs.

Benefits

• Health and dental insurance with up to 75% employer contribution to the employee premium.
• 401(k) after 6 months of employment.
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick time, and 11 paid holidays.