Senior Production Technician
| Posting date: | 04 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £31,551.07 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 July 2025 |
| Location: | Canterbury, Kent |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | The Marlowe Theatre |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
We are recruiting a Senior Production Technician to provide technical and production support for the Marlowe Theatre Main House and Studio programmes. Additionally contributing to special events, learning and participation and artist development work.
The Marlowe Theatre’s technical team is renown on the touring circuit for its professionalism, efficiency, and best practice. And as the Marlowe Theatre steps into its own produced work and touring, the Senior Production Technician will play a role in delivering on those aims.
As Senior Production Technician you will report to one of the three Heads of Department but work as a multiskilled Technician across all our performance’s spaces.
Our Senior Production Technician should have good knowledge of the theatre industry, theatre production with up-to-date knowledge of Health and Safety practice as well good interpersonal skills and good experience with a range technical equipment.
We are looking for a collaborative, proactive creative problem solver with a friendly and customer focused approach. The role of Senior production Technician is a multiskilled position and we will welcome those from all technical streams, we are particularly keen to hear from people with some experience of or a willingness to develop experience in stage and counterweight flying.
We want to work with people who are passionate about their work, resilient in the face of any challenge that comes their way and supportive of their colleagues.
About Us
The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury is one of the UK’s most successful large-scale regional theatres (UK Theatre of the Year in the Stage Awards 2022). Our mission is to be the engine house for the performing arts in Kent, shaping the spirit of our region.
We bring West End musicals, national companies, a symphony orchestra season and high-profile tours to Kent audiences, in a year-round programme of theatre, dance, opera, music and comedy in our 1,200-seat Main House. Next year we begin producing large-scale plays made in Kent and touring nationally. Our 150-seat Studio is dedicated to the development of new ideas, with a mix of R&D with resident and visiting companies, sharings and presented shows, plus a home-produced family show at Christmas.
Our ground-breaking work with young people focuses on skills development and includes co-delivery of a UAL Level 3 Performing Arts course with East Kent Colleges Group; being the national home of Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures’ Cygnet School and the RSC’s Associate Theatre in the South East. We recently launched our Writers Room, developing regional talent and supporting our producing aspirations. As the largest performing arts employer in the region, we are committed to developing the workforce of the future, providing apprenticeships and work experience opportunities for over 100 young people every year across all areas of theatre-making.
We are also fast outgrowing our spaces and developing major capital projects as a result, including turning the 800-year-old Poor Priests’ Hospital within the city walls into a Creative Learning Centre and free heritage destination, with support from Levelling Up and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. We are also looking towards the long-term development of our theatre building, increasing our technical and producing capacity.
Our investment in our loyalty strategy has ensured that we have consistently strong and engaged audiences for our varied programme. We’ve also received recognition from our industry, winning a Stage Award for our innovative approach to supporting the theatre sector and a Workforce Award from UK Theatre for our investment in our People Plan, ensuring our high calibre team are rewarded and supported.
We are a Creative Green organisation and are committed to taking action on climate change and environmental sustainability.
The Marlowe Theatre is an inclusive employer. We value difference and recruit by merit based on fair and open competition.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We want to hear from all sectors including veterans.
We are a Creative Green organisation and are committed to taking action on climate change and environmental sustainability.
The Marlowe Theatre’s technical team is renown on the touring circuit for its professionalism, efficiency, and best practice. And as the Marlowe Theatre steps into its own produced work and touring, the Senior Production Technician will play a role in delivering on those aims.
As Senior Production Technician you will report to one of the three Heads of Department but work as a multiskilled Technician across all our performance’s spaces.
Our Senior Production Technician should have good knowledge of the theatre industry, theatre production with up-to-date knowledge of Health and Safety practice as well good interpersonal skills and good experience with a range technical equipment.
We are looking for a collaborative, proactive creative problem solver with a friendly and customer focused approach. The role of Senior production Technician is a multiskilled position and we will welcome those from all technical streams, we are particularly keen to hear from people with some experience of or a willingness to develop experience in stage and counterweight flying.
We want to work with people who are passionate about their work, resilient in the face of any challenge that comes their way and supportive of their colleagues.
About Us
The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury is one of the UK’s most successful large-scale regional theatres (UK Theatre of the Year in the Stage Awards 2022). Our mission is to be the engine house for the performing arts in Kent, shaping the spirit of our region.
We bring West End musicals, national companies, a symphony orchestra season and high-profile tours to Kent audiences, in a year-round programme of theatre, dance, opera, music and comedy in our 1,200-seat Main House. Next year we begin producing large-scale plays made in Kent and touring nationally. Our 150-seat Studio is dedicated to the development of new ideas, with a mix of R&D with resident and visiting companies, sharings and presented shows, plus a home-produced family show at Christmas.
Our ground-breaking work with young people focuses on skills development and includes co-delivery of a UAL Level 3 Performing Arts course with East Kent Colleges Group; being the national home of Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures’ Cygnet School and the RSC’s Associate Theatre in the South East. We recently launched our Writers Room, developing regional talent and supporting our producing aspirations. As the largest performing arts employer in the region, we are committed to developing the workforce of the future, providing apprenticeships and work experience opportunities for over 100 young people every year across all areas of theatre-making.
We are also fast outgrowing our spaces and developing major capital projects as a result, including turning the 800-year-old Poor Priests’ Hospital within the city walls into a Creative Learning Centre and free heritage destination, with support from Levelling Up and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. We are also looking towards the long-term development of our theatre building, increasing our technical and producing capacity.
Our investment in our loyalty strategy has ensured that we have consistently strong and engaged audiences for our varied programme. We’ve also received recognition from our industry, winning a Stage Award for our innovative approach to supporting the theatre sector and a Workforce Award from UK Theatre for our investment in our People Plan, ensuring our high calibre team are rewarded and supported.
We are a Creative Green organisation and are committed to taking action on climate change and environmental sustainability.
The Marlowe Theatre is an inclusive employer. We value difference and recruit by merit based on fair and open competition.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We want to hear from all sectors including veterans.
We are a Creative Green organisation and are committed to taking action on climate change and environmental sustainability.
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