STAGES St. Louis, a professional musical theatre company entering our 40th season, is seeking Production Manager to join our staff. The Season, which runs from May through October, consists of three large-scale musicals: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Guys and Dolls, and Come from Away. Start and End dates depend on each individual position. STAGES St. Louis strives to create a diverse and inclusive environment.
Position Summary:
Support the commitment to preserve and advance the art of Theatre by leading the Production Department. Supervise and implement the vision of the artistic team while remaining within the available resources of time, budget, and personnel.
Essential Functions:
- Collaborate with the Artistic Director, Executive Producer, Artistic General Manager and Finance Department on budget development, staffing, and policy issues.
- Responsible for all Production budgets and tracking the Production budgets throughout the fiscal year along with the Assistant Production Manager.
- Collaborate with Executive Producer, Artistic Director, Finance Manager, and Artistic General Manager on duties such as, but not limited to, policy generation, hiring, firing, and mentoring of all Production Department employees.
- Hire, supervise, and lead the Technical Director, Costume Shop Manager, Assistant to the Production Manager, Props Supervisor (seasonal), Scenic Charge (Seasonal), Lighting Supervisor (Seasonal), Audio Supervisor (Seasonal), Deck Supervisor (Seasonal), Wardrobe Supervisor (Seasonal).
- Develop and maintain the Master Production Calendar with the Artistic General Manager.
- Be available to assist with any urgent production issues particularly during the Season.
- Serve as the liaison to other STAGES Departments to assist, coordinate, and deliver production services.
- Oversee maintenance of all shops in coordination with the Technical Director and Costume Shop Manager.
- Work with shop managers to cultivate a positive, educational, safe, supportive and productive work environment.
- Process and approve all production shop payroll with Assistant to the Production Manager.
- Attend all management team meetings and maintain supportive collaboration with other Department leaders.
- Schedule production meetings as needed. Meet with designers to talk about budgets and production requirements.
- Review and approve all production expenses.
- Coordinate with Assistant to the Production Manager to maintain company vehicle needs for Production, including rentals, up-keep, security, and operation for the production vehicles and any rental truck needs along.
- Communicate all contract details for designers and all production staff with Assistant to the Production Manager.
Other Responsibilities:
- Staff all STAGES special events, including but not limited to, STAGES fundraisers and donor events, appropriately and work events when needed.
- Coordinate with Acquisition and Rental Manager the oversight of rentals program and foster innovative ways to generate revenue.
Competencies:
- Planning/Organizing - Prioritizes and plans work activities. Use time efficiently. Plans for additional resources. Set goals and objectives. Organize or schedules other people and their tasks.
- Teamwork - Balances team and individual responsibilities. Exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views. Gives and welcomes feedback. Contributes to building a positive team spirit. Supports everyone's efforts to succeed.
- Organizational Support - Follows policies and procedures. Supports organization's goals and values.
- Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness. Looks for ways to improve and promote quality. Monitors own work to ensure quality.
- Safety and Security - Observes and encourages safety and security procedures to always protect employees safety.
- Control Precision - The ability to adjust the controls of machines or vehicles quickly and repeatedly to exact positions.
Education, Experience, and Skill Level required:
- Bachelor's degree in theatre or equivalent work experience in multiple technical fields.
- Five years of professional experience in production management, production stage management, or technical direction or combination thereof.
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite, especially Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Familiarity with unions preferred including A.E.A., I.A.T.S.E., U.S.A., S.D.C., and A.F.M. - Working knowledge of AutoCAD and Vectorworks. Understanding and use of lighting and audio systems. Ability to read and understand construction drawings.
- Experience working in an educational facility.
- Ability to estimate and manage budgets.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
Working conditions may include nights and weekends, and some overtime as needed. Ability to stand for long periods, climb ladders and stairs, and work at heights. A moderate degree of physical ability is associated with production positions, including the ability to lift and move up to 70lbs. Must be able to safely operate a fly system as well as have knowledge of properly knotting ropes. Wearing and or using personal protective equipment is required. May be required to drive a company cargo van and 26+rsquo;box truck.
