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Live Production Manager Employment Contract UK

Set practical technical delivery leadership across people, venues, equipment, budgets and live schedules.

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When to use this contract

Deliver workable technical production plans, coordinate coordinated crews venues and equipment, and complete show and technical handovers.

Workplace context: Office, client premises, remote systems or assigned work locations.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering productions venues touring and schedule. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering departments crew contractors and hours. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering budgets hires equipment and changes. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering safety inspections shows and records. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering company policies.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The manager cannot make specialist engineering decisions, exceed spend or signature authority, bypass inspections or require unsafe hours to preserve schedules. May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

What to prepare before you issue it

  • the productions and technical remit
  • the crew contractor and venue structure
  • the budget hire and purchasing authority
  • the safety permit and inspection process
  • the touring show and handover requirements

Day-to-day operating brief

What Production Manager work looks like in practice

A Live Production Manager turns an approved creative plan into a workable technical production, coordinating staging, lighting, sound, power, rigging, scenery, venues and crew. Terms should define productions, technical scope, budgets and purchasing, staffing and contractors, fit-up and rehearsal schedules, touring, risk and emergency governance, permits and inspections, equipment hire, change control, show communication, working hours and the distinction between coordination and specialist competent-person decisions.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

  • Develop technical schedules resources and budgets.
  • Coordinate departments venues suppliers and crew.
  • Manage authorised hires purchases and changes.
  • Support risk controls inspections and show readiness.
  • Report status incidents costs and handovers.

A realistic working scenario

A late scenic addition affects rigging loads, crew calls and transport capacity. The manager records all dependencies and obtains design, safety and budget approval before scheduling it.

Outputs to agree

  • workable technical production plans
  • coordinated crews venues and equipment
  • complete show and technical handovers

Records and evidence

  • Technical plan schedule and dependency.
  • Crew supplier hire and budget.
  • Risk permit inspection and approval.
  • Change show report cost and closure.
  • Work records.
  • Handover notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Senior Manager, Director or Business Owner. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

  • The manager cannot make specialist engineering decisions, exceed spend or signature authority, bypass inspections or require unsafe hours to preserve schedules.
  • May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

Supervision

  • Allocate and review assigned work within delegated authority and escalate formal people matters through the Employer's procedures.

Tools and systems

  • HR systems.

Workplace context

  • Office, client premises, remote systems or assigned work locations.

Contract priorities

  • productions venues touring and schedule
  • departments crew contractors and hours
  • budgets hires equipment and changes
  • safety inspections shows and records

Information the employer should prepare

  • the productions and technical remit
  • the crew contractor and venue structure
  • the budget hire and purchasing authority
  • the safety permit and inspection process
  • the touring show and handover requirements

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Work setting

Office, client premises, remote systems or assigned work locations.

Primary duties

  • Develop technical schedules resources and budgets.
  • Coordinate departments venues suppliers and crew.
  • Manage authorised hires purchases and changes.
  • Support risk controls inspections and show readiness.

Tools and training to confirm

  • HR systems.

Governance focus

Employer procedures and role controls. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering productions venues touring and schedule. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering departments crew contractors and hours. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering budgets hires equipment and changes.

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Production Manager duties

Deliver workable technical production plans, coordinate coordinated crews venues and equipment, and complete show and technical handovers.

Develop technical schedules resources and budgets. Coordinate departments venues suppliers and crew. Manage authorised hires purchases and changes. Support risk controls inspections and show readiness. Report status incidents costs and handovers.

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The manager cannot make specialist engineering decisions, exceed spend or signature authority, bypass inspections or require unsafe hours to preserve schedules.

May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering productions venues touring and schedule.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering departments crew contractors and hours.

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Frequently asked questions

Can a Production Manager approve rigging?

Only if separately competent and formally assigned that technical authority.

Who hires technical equipment?

Use supplier, budget, insurance and signature controls.

Are overnight fit-ups included?

Define calls, breaks, rest, travel and payment.

Who changes the technical schedule?

The manager coordinates changes within production approval limits.

Can contractors be engaged?

Only through procurement, competence and contracting procedures.

Who decides a show is ready?

Set department, venue, safety and producer release responsibilities.

How is overtime approved?

Use named authority, records and working-time safeguards.

What is handed over?

Plans, crew, equipment, inspections, changes, costs and unresolved risks.

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