Event Production Apprentice
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Company: WOODFASHIONERS LTD
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Location: MANNINGTREE, CO11 1UT
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Type: Apprenticeship
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Salary: Apprenticeship Minimum Wage
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Sector: Business and administration
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Ref: NAS-2000053857
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Application Deadline Date: 17/10/2026
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Start Date: 26/10/2026
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Positions Available: 1
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Working Week: Monday to Friday 8am - 5pm with a 30 minute break and an hour lunch break.
Brief Description
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.
Training to be Provided
- 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).
Future Prospects
- The career progression pathway from this role involves becoming an Event Production Assistant, Event Producer, Senior Event Producer and Event Production Manager.
Vacancy Detail
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.
Other Information
- 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.