Event Production Apprentice
WOODFASHIONERS LTD · MANNINGTREE, CO11 1UT
Business administrator (level 3)
Join our team and help bring sets, stages and brand activations from render to reality for corporate events across the UK and Europe. The role will directly support our leadership team, assisting in the smooth execution of projects from when we receive a design, to fabrication in our workshop, deployment and postproduction.
The work
Day to day duties will involve:
- Understanding the client’s creative vision and breaking it down into key deliverables for communication internally.
- Developing project timelines to ensure clients and internal stakeholders deliver on time.
- Coordinating internally with our technical designers and workshop manager to ensure what is being made matches the client vision.
- Handling the booking of logistics such as trucking, accommodation, venue services, contractors and anything else that is required to ensure a smooth installation and derig of the build.
- Managing goods in and warehousing of client and company goods.
- Liaising with partners such as AV suppliers, graphics teams and venue teams as needed for each build.
- Communicating effectively with contractors that may be required to support during the installation and derig.
- Supporting on-site event installation and derig to ensure smooth implementation.
- Arranging postproduction; be it storing, reusing, giving away, selling or disposing of all built items.
Training
- The apprentice will be working towards the Business Administrator Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard including a City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma for the Business Administrator.
- Monthly classes at Colchester Institute (Colchester Campus).
Training provider: COLCHESTER INSTITUTE
What you come out with
- The career progression pathway from this role involves becoming an Event Production Assistant, Event Producer, Senior Event Producer and Event Production Manager.
What they are looking for
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Detail oriented
- Execution minded
- Good written communication
- Good verbal communication
- Can-do attitude
- Keen to engage
- Google Workspace knowledge
- Microsoft Office knowledge
Qualifications
- Essential · GCSE maths and English A*-E/9-2
Things to consider
- The role will be based fully at our Manningtree workshop and will involve a fair amount of computer-based work, but also involvement in the warehouse.
- Occasionally there will be work on site during event installations. These can happen across the UK and Europe for between 1 and 10 days at a time.
Pay extras and benefits
- We have an opt in company pension scheme managed by Nest.
- Fish and chips every Friday.
£15,600 a year
The employer
Woodfashioners is a fast-growing event fabrication company based in Manningtree, Essex.
We take design renders from experiential creative agency clients, build them in our workshop and install them around the UK and across Europe.
We are a family-owned company with 7 team members, and punch above our weight delivering major projects for brands such as Netflix, TikTok, Timberland, NYT, Pintrest and many more at events such as Cannes Lions, Goodwood Festival of Speed, London Fashion Week and beyond.
Sustainability is important to us, so we work hard to limit our waste to landfill, while also planting trees at our very own Fashioners Woods.
Workplace
- 3 COMMERCE WAY, LAWFORD, MANNINGTREE, CO11 1UT