Job description

Salary: £46,500
Contract: Permanent, full-time
Location: Prop Workshop, Trinity Buoy Wharf

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Prop Workshop Supervisor with exceptional prop-making abilities across a wide range of techniques and styles to join our fantastic team.
The Prop Workshop Supervisor assists the Prop Workshop Manager in the safe and efficient production, manufacture, and refurbishment of props for ENO and Engage productions ensuring that the very highest standards are always maintained. They will work with the Head of Props, Prop Workshop Manager, Prop Supervisors and visiting designers to support the artistic vision of all productions.

Requirements:
Proven ability to recruit staff and manage personnel budgets for a freelance workshop.
Excellent making skills in all areas of prop construction.
The ability to instruct and guide others in all prop making techniques.
The ability to work from scale drawings, sketches, model pieces, reference pictures and verbal descriptions.
Proven experience of preparing estimates and budgeting for the making of props.
An extensive knowledge of styles and periods.
Excellent organisational, motivational and communication skills.
An understanding of and sensitivity to other departments and their relationship to the Prop Department.
The ability to interact with designers and realise their ideas in a practical form.
A knowledge of prop workshop machinery and hand tools, their maintenance and safe use.
A knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and practice and of COSSH applied in a prop making workshop.
Computer literacy.

Benefits:
25 days annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays
Free/discounted ENO tickets
Eyecare vouchers
Cycle-to-work scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Enhanced parental leave
Enhanced sick leave

Please see our recruitment pack for more details.
To apply, please send along a CV and Cover Letter or short video detailing your interest and suitability for the role to workwithus@eno.org by 10am on Friday 13th June 2025.

Interviews: w/c 23rd June 2025
Please also submit our anonymous Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form.

English National Opera is an Equal Opportunities employer, and we strive to create an inclusive working environment that reflects the diverse communities we serve. As we work to address underrepresentation in our workforce, English National Opera particularly encourages potential candidates from underrepresented groups and communities to apply, including those from global majority backgrounds and/or with protected characteristics, including race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment and religion and belief. We will provide appropriate support for candidates with access requirements if they identify as disabled. This includes during the application process and through candidate assessment stages.

Apply via www.eno.org