Theatre Technician

Location: On site / Peterborough, UK
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Arts | Technical
Annual Fixed salary:£ 27500.00

Landmark Theatres is looking for a Technician to join their team at the New and Key Theatre Peterborough. The ideal candidate will have the ability to work across all departments. We are seeking a proactive individual who is passionate about arts and culture, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

Landmark Theatres is a portfolio of regional venues in North Devon and Peterborough receiving a wide variety of arts and cultural opportunities for local communities. This includes major touring productions, high-profile live music acts, big-name stand-up comedy, dance, superb theatre, and new writing. We also produce high-quality Musicals, Drama and Family productions including our annual family Pantomime in Peterborough.

Our venues consist of:
Queen Theatre, Barnstaple (650 seats), Landmark Theatre, Ilfracombe (450 seats), the New Theatre Peterborough (1,100 seats) and the Key Theatre Peterborough (112 & 360 seats). We are the largest new theatre entrant to Arts Council England's National Portfolio (23-26) and are working with several high-quality partners such as Birmingham Royal Ballet, The National Theatre and Paines Plough.

We receive an annual grant of £1 million a year for the current three-year funding cycle from 2023-24 to 2025-26 to ensure that Landmark Theatres can deliver an ambitious artistic mission, driving quality work, inspiring, and developing new talent for and with the audience we serve across North Devon and Peterborough.

This funding is a great vote of confidence in our potential to deliver to areas previously under-invested in culturally.

We are now building a new producing theatre organisation outside London – for the first time in a generation.

The company has strong foundations in generating income as commercially driven businesses, driving trade and strong attendance. But newly found relationships with key stakeholders such ACE have broadened the companies’ ambitions against their Let’s Create Strategy.

We pride ourselves on an in-depth understanding of the locations in which we operate. Working in areas of lower cultural engagement across the UK. We are respectful and responsive to local priorities, deliver innovation and work in partnership to empower our communities. We deliver a breadth of creative activities and ways in which our communities can engage whether that be as an audience member, participant, decision maker or through developing talent.

Landmark Theatres is a value-led organisation: innovate, include, collaborate, empower, sustain. We are committed to being diverse and inclusive and to making our workforce representative of different backgrounds and experiences of the communities we serve.

Responsible to:
Technical Manager

Place of Work:
New Theatre & Key Theatre Peterborough

Hours of Work:
40 hours a week, (annualised) including evening and weekends.

Salary:
Up to £27,500 per annum + BECTU payments (when applicable)

Contract:
Permanent Contract

Pension:
Company Pension Scheme available

Start Date:
As soon as possible

As a member of Key & New Theatre technical team the Technician is required to take a proactive approach towards the smooth running of the Technical Department. The Technician will support the Technical Manager in the day-to-day technical, Maintenance and Health and Safety Compliance of our venues. This role will ensure safe presentation of all productions, hires, and events in our venues, and we are keen to hear from applicants who align with our organisational values and are passionate about delivering highest levels of customer care whilst…