Role Purpose To lead and inspire the Scenic Art department, ensuring all scenic finishes are delivered to exceptional artistic and technical standards on time, within budget, and in line with each designer's vision. The Head of Scenic Art will combine hands-on painting expertise with leadership and planning, overseeing a team of permanent and freelance scenic artists and collaborating closely with designers, production managers, and workshop heads. Duties & Responsibilities Paintshop Management & Communication Build an effective & positive team providing support & supervision. Encourage staff to develop their skills. Ensure work is budgeted, planned, scheduled & distributed to meet deadlines, attending regular meetings to develop work plans for productions. Supervise and monitor staff to ensure the highest appropriate standards of work are maintained at all times whilst still keeping to budget and schedule; reporting changes/overruns ASAP. Carry out training & reviews as required. Work with the admin team to book additional staff when required, arrange paint calls and order materials in time & within budget. Ensure good housekeeping, health & safety and correct working methods (to COSHH standards). Scenic Art Work with the scenic art team, preparing samples showing processes and materials that will create the desired effect within the time and budget available. Interpret designers' small-scale ideas, and develop them into full-scale reproductions. Use a broad range of scenic techniques, textures and materials in established processes, alongside expanding and developing their use in new ways. Be excellent at colour-matching and be able to produce finishes to the highest standards. To stretch, hang and paint scenic cloths and gauzes using projection and measure out and create cut cloths effects. Encourage and teach members of the team to develop new skills and processes, occasionally working with students too. Work off site when required at meetings or paint calls. Essential Have at least 2 years' experience of managing people & projects Have 5+ years of working in a similar environment Have traditional fine arts skills of sketching, rendering & painting Be able to read and interpret scale drawings & models Ability to create textures using various materials & to use colour to exacting standards Be resourceful & offer creative solutions to realise a design Work efficiently with self-motivation & flexibility Be able to maintain a professional yet friendly rapport with designers & production managers Be able to work under pressure & understand the demands of the industry e.g. Overtime when required, Sunday Paintcalls & very occasional working overnight Be able to work independently & as part of a team, ensuring positive working relationships with colleagues throughout the company Excellent attention to detail & quality control Be happy working at height Desirable Qualification in Scenic Arts. Computer literate especially with image editing IPAF cert Please go to our website to fill out an application form and forward, along with your portfolio, to [email protected]Job Summary
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