Audio Visual Production Manager - Events

AUDIO VISUAL PRODUCTION MANAGER - LIVE EVENTS

Mercury Sound & Lighting

Wixom, MI | Full-Time | Some Travel Required

Mercury Sound & Lighting is a full-service audiovisual production and integration company creating

exceptional live-event experiences for clients across the country. For more than 25 years, our team

has supported corporate meetings, conferences, award programs, galas, national tours, and other

high-profile events with creative solutions, leading-edge technology, and flawless execution.

We are growing and looking for an experienced Live Events Production Manager who can take ownership of an event from the initial handoff through final execution and closeout.

The Live Events Production Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing

assigned live-event productions. This person serves as the operational link between our clients,

sales team, technical departments, warehouse, vendors, venues, and onsite crews.

The ideal candidate is an experienced live-event professional who understands audio, video,

lighting, staging, rigging, power, and event logistics. Just as importantly, this person must be

organized, solutions-oriented, financially responsible, and comfortable leading both people and

productions in fast-paced environments.

• Manage assigned productions from initial planning through onsite execution and post-event
• Partner with sales and clients to understand event objectives, technical requirements, schedules, budgets, and expectations.
• Conduct site visits and develop detailed production plans, equipment requirements, labor plans, room layouts, schedules, and show documentation.
• Review project scope and identify technical, logistical, budgetary, and safety considerations before each event.
• Create and maintain production schedules, crew calls, equipment lists, transportation plans, show flows, and other project documentation.
• Coordinate internal departments, freelance technicians, labor providers, venues, unions, transportation partners, and outside vendors.
• Assign qualified technical personnel based on the complexity and specific needs of each production.
• Lead production meetings, technical advances, client walkthroughs, and internal handoff meetings.
• Oversee load-in, setup, rehearsals, show execution, strike, and load-out.
• Provide clear leadership and direction to technicians, stagehands, vendors, and production partners onsite.
• Monitor project costs, labor hours, rentals, subrentals, transportation, and other expenses to protect the approved budget and targeted gross margin.
• Communicate changes in scope promptly and ensure additional costs are properly documented and approved.
• Anticipate challenges, develop contingency plans, and resolve technical or logistical issues calmly and professionally.
• Maintain Mercury’s standards for safety, appearance, professionalism, equipment care, and
• Complete post-event reporting, expense reconciliation, equipment-damage documentation, and internal project reviews.
• Build strong, long-term relationships with clients, venues, vendors, and production partners.
• Contribute to the continued development of Mercury’s production processes, standards, and team.

• At least 7 years of professional experience in live-event production, audiovisual production, technical direction, or production management.
• Demonstrated experience managing corporate meetings, conferences, general sessions, galas, award programs, or similarly complex live events.
• Strong working knowledge of professional audio, video, projection, LED, lighting, staging, rigging, power distribution, networking, and live streaming systems.
• Experience creating production schedules, equipment lists, labor plans, technical documentation, and event…