Props Maker (Trainee) - Covent Garden

Props Maker (Trainee) – Covent Garden

Fixed-Term Contract – 18 months

Full time: 42.5 hours per week

Salary: £34,610

Based in: Covent Garden

The Royal Ballet and Opera (RBO) is home to three of the world`s great performing art companies: The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. We aspire to produce great art, telling stories that can speak to universal themes that move us.

Our Technical, Production and Costume departments play a leading part in ensuring our performances are of the highest quality by delivering technical excellence for every performance, rehearsal, and event.

We are excited to bring onboard a Props Maker (Trainee) to work as an effective member of the team facilitating the smooth running of the Props Workshop, ensuring that all activities are carried out to the highest possible standard of safety, efficiency, and quality.

We are looking for individuals with:

• Experience of Prop making in a professional environment an advantage.
• An understanding of stage working practices an advantage
• Tobe able to work from scale drawings, models, plans, sketches, verbal ideas and references
• An interest in adapting and refurbishing existing props and materials, with our ambitions to work more sustainably
• Strong communication skills
• Team player with a collaborative approach to working.

The Royal Ballet and Opera is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone can thrive. We particularly welcome applications from those who are from a global majority background and/or those who are disabled, as they are under-represented within our organisation. As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential minimum criteria for our vacancies.

A full job description and RBO information pack is attached below. If you have any have questions or access requirements for your application, please contact the RBO Recruitment Team on

Closing date for applications:8am, Monday 24^th February 2025

This role will be an 18 months fixed-term contract.