Production Manager

Summary

Join Fever as a Local Production Manager for the Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience in Austin, Texas! This pivotal role focuses on managing the efficient and safe setup and dismantling of technical elements for the event. You will liaise with various departments and suppliers, ensuring world-class delivery and exceptional customer service. Based in Austin, you will report to the Global Production and Global Technical Managers. The position initially starts as freelance but offers long-term potential. Remote work flexibility is offered during pre-production, load-in, and load-out phases, with occasional travel required.

Requirements

• Excellent administrative and IT skills
• Ability to take ownership and project manage a wide variety of tasks
• Ability and interest in researching and liaising with a variety of stakeholders both internally and externally
• High attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task
• High standards of work
• Highly organized
• Adaptable
• Personable
• Enjoy working as part of a small and friendly team in a fast-paced environment
• The candidate must be able to work in the United States and achieve one of the Following: (1) Already a citizen/resident in the country and is permitted to work. (2) Already in possession of a work visa/permit

Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for loading in and out all technical elements of each site
• Liaising with other departments to ensure their areas are loaded in and out as per the schedule
• Liaising closely with the props and scenic team to ensure all owned assets arrive to site, are stored and packaged appropriately both during the run and once closed
• Maintain and update the inventory based on design needs
• Source and arrange for other departments local commodities, tools, and equipment that need to be sourced locally
• Arranging of trucking from site to storage facilities or suppliers warehouses
• Manage, implement and follow safety procedures and guidelines when dealing with incidents on site and confirm all crew are appropriately certified, etc
• Crew welfare- ensure shift patterns are running smoothly & breaks are implemented

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience managing large outdoor festivals, Illumination trails or outdoor experiential events
• At least 3 years of previous relevant experience in a related industry
• Excellent organizational skills
• Time management and ability to prioritize key tasks
• Attention to detail and able to work across multiple projects
• Ability to deal with stressful situations in a calm and professional manner
• Must be an effective communicator, team oriented and have strong leadership skills
• Comfortable working in a constantly changing environment
• Professional appearance and demeanor
• Current First-Aid certification is a plus
• Must have experience in using Google Drive and the Google suite of applications including Sheets, Word, Google Meetings

Benefits

Remote working with flexibility for occasional travel for meetings, site visits and onsite work during the 35 day load in period, and again for the 14 day load out period, and the potential to assist with additional logistic management afterwards