Field Vision Bars
Event Operations Manager
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Event Operations Manager (Bars)
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 DOE + annual discretionary bonus
Start date: ASAP
Location: London venues / UK travel required for Event delivery. Occasional working from home days around event requirements.
Working week: 40 hours a week, typically Monday – Friday.
Weekends and evenings will be required as per the business need. TOIL is given for days worked beyond 5 out of 7
Field Vision Bars is a leading festival and venue bar operator, working on events such as Boomtown, Kendal Calling, Drumsheds and Magazine. As an Event Operations Manager, you’ll support the operational delivery of our London venues and oversee large-scale bar projects across festivals and pop-ups, ensuring smooth builds, live show days and de-rigs.
You’ll be based mainly at our London sites for winter including Drumsheds, Magazine and Exhibition, with UK travel during the summer season for festival locations. Your role covers planning, build, delivery and de-rig, working closely with clients, suppliers and local authorities to ensure seamless events. Pre-event, you’ll help plan upcoming shows, organise stock and equipment, and liaise with clients. On site, you’ll oversee bar builds, uphold licensing and service standards, and manage teams of up to 15 managers and crew—plus up to 400 bar staff on show days. Post-event, you’ll manage de-rigs, paperwork and the return of vehicles, tools and stock.
You take pride in high-quality delivery, excel under pressure, and bring a confident, calm and collaborative approach. Personable and professional with staff, clients and managers alike, you’ll represent our values and contribute to our culture and growth.
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Pre Show / Office Time
- Assist the wider Festival & Events team to plan, operate and reconcile events
- Client liaising to plan events
- Building staffing rotas, equipment lists, schedules and operating plans
- Assisting with any stock requirements, including counts and ordering
- Working alongside the staffing, operations and stock teams to ensure everything is ready to go
Build Duties
- Responsible for set-up of the Event, managing build / set up crew, schedules and equipment, adhering to budgets and reducing costs where possible
- Attend on-site meetings prior to the event to review event plans, build schedules & pick lists – amend and adjust where required
- Organise and coordinate vehicles, plant & tools and guarantee safe keeping of tools and equipment pre during & post event (in conjunction with the event office manager if applicable)
- Ensure correct and safe use of equipment including vehicles, plant and tools
- General admin – including the recording of crew hours, sign out sheets etc
- Accident & incident reporting, ensuring all policies are adhered to inc driving, vehicles, expenses, staff conduct
Live Show Days
- Liaising with event site team and suppliers
- Hold daily briefings with relative departments
- Assisting with any stock requirements and movements
- Responsible for set-up / close down (dependant on the shift), maintenance and overall security of onsite operations – including infrastructure, kit, staff welfare and licensing
- Co-coordinating deliveries from/to exterior contractors/suppliers and ensuring it is recorded correctly – e.g. ice/soft drinks to a food vendors
- Be a point of contact for bar managers – working with them to ensure maximum efficiency of the bar operations
- Ensure the licensing objectives and laws are being adhered too across the entire site
- Liaise with finance and stock teams ensuring procedures and timelines are upheld to ensure effective operations
- Ensure site is safe and secure at the end of each night
- Working with and adhering to Field Vision Policies including H&S Policy
- Operating the site wide bar operations for venues and events.
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De-Rig & Post Show Duties & Responsibilities
- Working with the Project Manager/ Operations Director on any expected delays to the Production schedule and the revised timeline. E.g. – Weather, delays
- Regularly communicating with the site managers to ensure they are happy with how Field Vision are progressing & leaving areas of site
Core skills & qualifications:
- A full, clean driving licence
- Personal Licence Holder
- Telehandler / forklift licence
- Excellent written and spoken English
- A confident leader, always leading from the front, communicating information efficiently and clearly to the team - maintaining morale and enabling a collaborative environment
- Able to confidently delegate whilst maintaining an all-round overview of the team
- Ability to communicate relevant information to all departments and stakeholders involved in the event
- Working and staying calm under pressure
- A keen eye for detail
- Willing to live and work onsite at festivals and events both during and outside of regular working hours (while we always try to secure hotel accommodation, some festival sites do require camping).
Interview Stages
- 1st Stage with our Assoc Director People & Talent
- 2nd Stage with our Operations Director
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