Construction manager, Coronation Street - permanent

Closing date for applications: 15th August 2025

Salary: £62,000 - £68,000

Business area: Media production

Contract type: Permanent full time

Location: Manchester - Coronation Street ITV studios & construction workshop (Westbrook Road) - expectation is full time in the office.

Step into this leadership role and shape the sets behind the world's longest-running TV soap - Coronation Street!

Spark the magic of Coronation Street! As construction manager, you'll lead a dynamic team turning visionary designs into captivating sets. This thrilling role demands strong leadership, meticulous planning, and creative flair to enhance storytelling while mastering schedules and budgets. Oversee all builds, ensuring safety and excellence. If you're a proactive leader passionate about construction and TV, shape a beloved show!


Responsibilities

As construction manager, you’ll take the creative vision and bring it to life - literally. Leading our construction team, you’ll transform design concepts into the physical sets that shape storytelling on Coronation Street. You’ll manage logistics, resources, safety, and people - ensuring every build is delivered with precision and care.

This is a leadership role; balancing hands-on construction know-how with project planning, team development, and long-term maintenance. From full-scale lot builds to last-minute studio changeovers, no two days are the same.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• You will have proven experience of working in a construction workshop on a drama based production with an excellent demonstrable knowledge of the set building process
• You will have experience of working in the building trade with an excellent understanding of the building process
• You will have experience of working in a supervisory or managerial role in the construction of sets or building environments with a proven ability to lead a team (please provide evidence of managing people and workflow)
• You will have knowledge of a range of building practices including scaffold rigs and related safety considerations
• You can demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills including a proven ability to take a variety of approaches when dealing with issues and problems
• This role involves driving daily to various sites and locations to collect and deliver equipment therefore a full, manual UK driving licence is essential
• You are flexible and able to take calls outside of working hours and work occasional extra days/hours, depending on production needs.
• You have knowledge of Health & Safety principles, and how these apply in a workshop and on-set environment (eg risk assessments, safe working practices, COSHH)
• You have excellent organisational and time management skills
• You’re confident in communicating with others and can demonstrate good negotiating skills
• You stay calm and focused under pressure and during stressful situations
• You have a flexible and creative approach to problem solving
• You have a proactive approach to personal development
• You are able to prioritise and juggle workloads, possessing initiative to adapt to changing priorities

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.