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Prop Workshop Supervisor, ENO

  •  London
  •  Â£40k-50k
  •  Full time
  •  Closes June 13, 2025
  •  NA
  • #Theatre

Description

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Prop Workshop Supervisor with exceptional prop-making abilities across a wide range of techniques and styles to join our fantastic team.

Job Description

Salary: £46,500
Contract: Permanent, full-time
Location: Prop Workshop, Trinity Buoy Wharf

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Prop Workshop Supervisor with exceptional prop-making abilities across a wide range of techniques and styles to join our fantastic team.

The Prop Workshop Supervisor assists the Prop Workshop Manager in the safe and efficient production, manufacture, and refurbishment of props for ENO and Engage productions ensuring that the very highest standards are always maintained. They will work with the Head of Props, Prop Workshop Manager, Prop Supervisors and visiting designers to support the artistic vision of all productions.

Please see our https://english-national-opera-live.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Props-Workshop-Supervisor-Recruitment-Pack-25.pdf - recruitment pack for more details.

To apply, please send along a CV and Cover Letter or short video detailing your interest and suitability for the role to mailto:[email protected] - [email protected] by 10am on Friday 13th June 2025.

Interviews: w/c 23rd June 2025

Please also submit our anonymous https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Heo2s3jPEUOGzC4Ra7-4hKrezSwH3J1AgaZTufu87ahUM1VRT0Q2SkVNOEtNUVVUSUg1RlVZNUI2WC4u - Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form.

Job Requirements

Requirements:

  • Proven ability to recruit staff and manage personnel budgets for a freelance workshop.
  • Excellent making skills in all areas of prop construction.
  • The ability to instruct and guide others in all prop making techniques.
  • The ability to work from scale drawings, sketches, model pieces, reference pictures and verbal descriptions.
  • Proven experience of preparing estimates and budgeting for the making of props.
  • An extensive knowledge of styles and periods.
  • Excellent organisational, motivational and communication skills.
  • An understanding of and sensitivity to other departments and their relationship to the Prop Department.
  • The ability to interact with designers and realise their ideas in a practical form.
  • A knowledge of prop workshop machinery and hand tools, their maintenance and safe use.
  • A knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and practice and of COSSH applied in a prop making workshop.
  • Computer literacy.

How to Apply

To apply, please send along a CV and Cover Letter or short video detailing your interest and suitability for the role to [email protected] by 10am on Friday 13th June 2025.

Interviews: w/c 23rd June 2025

Please also submit our anonymous Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form.

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