Senior Technician | Churchill Theatre | Full Time

Senior Technician | Churchill Theatre | Full Time

The Churchill Theatre in Bromley is a prominent venue for live entertainment, featuring a diverse range of productions and a seating capacity of 781.

As a Senior Technician, you will assist the Technical Manager in ensuring the smooth operation of The Churchill Theatre's Technical Department and Building Maintenance. Your primary responsibilities include meeting stage, technical, and staffing requirements for performances, productions, and events, aiming to deliver the highest standard of artistic quality and customer service to our external partners and patrons. This role requires excellent technical skills in stage, sound, lighting, and people support management.

You should be comfortable in a fast-paced receiving house environment and able to stay focused under shifting priorities, all while maintaining a positive outlook and a good sense of humour.

As the postholder is responsible for:

• Collaborate with the Technical Manager on budgets, ensuring operations are within agreed financial limits and targets are met.
• Uphold professionalism, integrity, and high-quality work practices in all areas of the Technical Department and Building Maintenance.
• Personal operation of sound and lighting controls and related equipment during rehearsals and performances.
• Stage management of events and performances.
• Represent the Churchill Theatre whilst liaising with all visiting companies and clients, effectively organising, and distributing the technical and H&S information required.
• Support and advise staff on safety and general procedures, ensuring compliance with all rules.
• Create full time and casual technical staff rotas.
• To ensure that all technical equipment is utilised correctly by both visiting and resident staff.
• To maintain excellent standards of housekeeping.
• To support the venue in the management of routine preventative planned maintenance to ensure safe and cost-effective performance.
• To ensure that all performances start on time and are accurately recorded (Show reports, Recharges and Timesheets) on a daily basis.
• To ensure that all technical work adheres to all statutory and regulatory requirements to ensure compliance.
• Ensuring the smooth running of get ins and get outs.

A Senior Technician professional with significant experience in the theatre, music or live-entertainment space, you’ll be a self-motivated, engaging and dynamic leader. Commercially savvy, enthusiastic and capable of influencing others (including senior members of the TE team and third-party producer clients) you’ll be energetic, proactive, results-focussed and creative in your approach. You’ll be resilient, able to communicate clearly and excellent at forming working relationships with others.

Founded by Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire in 2017, Trafalgar Entertainment is an award-winning global live-entertainment business, producing plays and musical, theatre and venue ownership and operations, live music and comedy, events and hospitality, Performing Arts education, ticketing, the distribution and filming of event cinema and TV live-streaming innovative content through Trafalgar Releasing Ltd (from David Tennant in Macbeth to Taylor Swift).

Trafalgar Entertainment is home to Trafalgar Theatres (with 23 venues in the UK, Sydney, London, and across the UK), including four London Theatres - Trafalgar Theatre, The Bridge Theatre, and the new British Airways Theatre, Olympia.

We are passionate about entertainment, audiences, and the live experience and we value Creativity, Collaboration, Excellence and Respect.

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Position Title

Senior Technician

Location

Churchill Theatre

Contract

Full Time annualised

Hours

1816 per annum

Annual Leave

264 hours (Inclusive of Bank Holidays)

Salary

£37,602.00 per annum

Job Description

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Details

£37,602.00 per year

Location:

Bromley, BR1 1HA
, GB