Associate Props Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Now Hiring: Associate Properties Manager
Department: Properties | Reports to: Properties Manager
Status: Full-Time, Exempt
Expected Start Date: August 10, 2026
Salary Range : $68,120 - $72,800
Location: Ashland & Talent, OR (On-site)

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is seeking a skilled and collaborative Associate Properties Manager to support the creation and execution of props across our repertory season. This role is ideal for an experienced props professional who thrives in a fast-paced, creative environment and enjoys both hands-on fabrication and team leadership.

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As Associate Properties Manager, you’ll oversee props for assigned productions—ensuring artistic visions are realized on time and within budget. You’ll translate design needs into actionable plans, support artisans, and help maintain a positive, productive shop culture.

Production Support: Ensure all assigned productions have their prop needs fully realized—from acquisition to installation.

Team Coordination: Collaborate with props staff to manage workflow, communicate priorities, and support daily operations.

Logistics & Delivery: Transport, track, and maintain props across rehearsal halls, stages, and shop spaces.

Budget & Planning: Track expenses and support scheduling, build calendars, and worklists in collaboration with the Properties Manager.

Installation & Maintenance: Dress sets for tech and performances; support repairs, notes, strikes, and archival processes.

Shop Culture & Leadership: Mentor artisans, support skill development, and help foster a safe, inclusive, and collaborative work environment.

Have 3+ years of professional props or scenic fabrication experience, including team leadership.
Bring strong skills in carpentry, sewing, upholstery, painting, and general fabrication.
Can read construction drawings and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Are a clear communicator and collaborative problem-solver.
Are comfortable working both independently and as part of a team.

Experience with CNC programming or 3D printing.
Background in repertory theatre or fast-paced production environments.

Ability to lift up to 75 lbs and perform physically demanding work.
Ability to climb ladders, work with tools, and operate shop equipment.
Schedule varies, including extended hours and evening shifts during technical rehearsals.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) was founded in 1935 in Ashland, OR, and has grown from a three-day festival of two plays to a nationally renowned theatre arts organization that presents a rotating repertory season of up to 10 plays and musicals, including illuminating interpretations of Shakespeare, other enduring classics, and new works. OSF productions have been presented on Broadway, internationally, and at regional, community, and high school theatres across the country. OSF received the 1983 Special Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre and is one of the largest nonprofit theatres in the nation with three stages, including an outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theatre.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival creates world-class theatre, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.

• We are committed to working toward inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility, creating a space of belonging for all audiences and employees—through concrete actions and systemic improvements.
• We nurture and support our artists, attracting and retaining diverse, innovative talent across the organization.
• We believe in the transformational power of collaborative artmaking and performance.
• We recognize the importance of responsible stewardship of resources and sustainable business, financial, and environmental practices.
• We serve the public good and engage with and respect our community of artists, audiences, staff, local citizens, patrons, donors, and the greater theatre community worldwide.