Job Description
Title : Technical & Facilities Manager
Salary: £38,000 to £40,000 per annum plus 3% pension contribution
Contract: Permanent, full-time
Location : Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Hours: The standard working week is 43 hours (excluding breaks) over 6 days, Monday through Sunday.
Holidays : 24 days discretionary plus bank/public holidays.
Benefits: Additional paid day off for your birthday; free theatre tickets; free beverages; discounted food; access to free counselling; employer contributed pension; maternity/paternity leave; statutory pay for sickness
How to Apply : Via our website.
Are you passionate about technical theatre? The Lyric Theatre, Northern Irelands cultural heartbeat, is looking for a talented Technical & Facilities Manager to join our team!
Why work with us? Enjoy fantastic benefits like an extra day off for your birthday, free show tickets, discounted food and drinks, and access to wellbeing support. Plus, you'll work in a stunning riverside setting with a multi-award winning team that values inclusivity, creativity, and collaboration.
Essential Criteria
- A minimum of 3 years professional experience in technical theatre, live performance, venue technical operations or a similar environment.
- Strong practical knowledge of technical theatre operations, with credible experience across stage, lighting, sound, video, rigging, flying or other relevant production systems.
- Experience supervising, coordinating or managing technical staff, casual crew, freelancers or production teams.
- The ability to lead, motivate and develop technicians with varying levels of experience.
- Experience planning and delivering technical activity, including fit-ups, technical rehearsals, performances, get-outs, visiting company activity or events.
- Good working knowledge of health and safety in a technical, production or venue environment.
- Understanding of relevant technical and safety requirements, including working at height, manual handling, electrical safety, LOLER, PUWER and COSHH.
- Experience managing budgets, purchases, hires, stock, equipment or other operational resources.
- Strong organisational and administrative skills, including the ability to manage rotas, records, deadlines and competing priorities.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with colleagues, contractors, visiting companies, creative teams and other stakeholders.
- IT literate, with good working knowledge of Microsoft Office or equivalent systems.
- Fitness and stamina to fulfil the requirements of the role, including the ability to work at height where required.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience working in a producing theatre or multi-space venue.
- Experience managing or supporting visiting companies, hires, events or external users.
- Experience coordinating contractors or day-to-day facilities activity within a venue, theatre, arts, education or public-facing building.
- Relevant health and safety qualification, such as IOSH Managing Safely, NEBOSH, ABTT training or equivalent.
- Knowledge of industry guidance and good practice, including the ABTT Yellow Book, Theatre Green Book or similar.
- Experience of counterweight flying systems, rigging, lifting operations or working at height.
- Experience using ETC EOS family software, QLab or other relevant lighting, sound, video or show-control systems.
- CAD skills, such as AutoCAD, Vectorworks or equivalent.
- First aid training.
- Full clean driving licence.
Visit our Career Page on our website for more information about the theatre and to access the full Job Description and links to our Application Form.
The application window will close on Mon 15th Jun at noon.
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