Full Time, Permanent Position Salary: £37,000 – £42,000 depending on experience. Would you like to produce scenic art for some of the highest calibre shows? Operation Mincemeat, Oliver, MJ The Musical, Sister Act, and Annie to name but a few. We are looking for a HEAD OF SCENIC ART to join us. Working with some of the very best designers, we are looking for scenic artists who want to create beautiful and dynamic finishes and lead our team of permanent and freelance staff here at Rocket Scenery. Are you practiced in some of the classic scenic skills but also keen to be creative with product and techniques? Do you like to lead a team and see a project come together? Maybe this role could be for you? This permanent roles come with holiday and sick pay, pension contributions and other employee benefits. Job purpose of the Head of Scenic Art: To lead and manage a team of Scenic Artists to produce quality scenery to a high standard of finish whilst adhering to timescales and budget available. To liaise and communicate effectively with staff members and to create productive working relationships with Designers and Production Managers. To be the decision maker on how best to achieve the designer’s vision; collaborating with the designer and the senior Scenic Artists to find the best solution. Duties & Responsibilities: Paintshop Management & Communication • You will ensure work is budgeted, planned, scheduled and distributed to meet required deadlines. You will attend regular meetings to develop work plans for productions. • You will 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 and overruns as soon as possible. • You will build an effective and positive team providing support, supervision and encouraging staff to develop their skills. Carrying out induction, training, reviews and staff progress as required. • With the support of the Deputy Head of Department, you will book additional staff when required, arrange paint calls and order appropriate materials in time and within budget. Scenic Art • You will use a broad range of scenic techniques, textures and materials in established processes, alongside expanding and developing their use in new ways. • You will be interpreting designers' small-scale ideas, and developing them into full-scale reproductions. • You will work with the senior scenic art team, preparing samples showing processes and materials that will create the desired effect within the time and budget available. • You will be excellent at colour-matching and be able to produce finishes to the highest standards. • You will stretch, hang and paint scenic cloths and gauzes using projection and measure out and create cut cloths effects. • You will encourage and teach junior members of the team to develop new skills and processes, occasionally working with students on placement too. • You will work off site when required at meetings or paint calls. • Ensure good housekeeping, health and safety and correct working methods in the workplace (meeting COSHH standards) are adhered to. • To undertake any other duties which are consistent with the function of the job. For further information please look at the full job specification on our website https://www.rocketscenery.co.uk/current-vacancies-1 Application deadline 10pm 13.04.25.