Production Manager - TV Featurette

The Production Manager will manage the work-flow of the production crew from script-to-screen and maintain the production pipeline based on milestone dates established by the approved production schedule and budget. Inspire and motivate the production crew. 

What you’ll be doing: 

• Responsible for ensuring all pre-production assets have been scheduled and assigned and are completed within the allocated time, including but not limited to storyboards, animatics, models, rigging, and that all materials are approved and ready for animation in accordance with the production schedule. 
• Exercise superior leadership, collaborative, and communication skills to ensure that inter and intra departmental tasks are assigned, understood and completed as per instructed. 
• Work with the Line Producer to ensure scripts are delivered according to schedules published. 
• Responsible for Script breakdown reviews and viability meetings with internal and external key stakeholders. 
• Work with the Line Producer to maintain and update working production schedules – overall, departmental, client, and service studios as requested 
• Supervise production coordinators and production assistants. Manage their assigned departments. 
• Utilize Shotgrid and oversee its use by the production team. Ensure that all tasks are tracked accurately. 
• Review and coordinate weekly to do lists with the members of the production team to ensure tracking and reporting are accurate and up to date. 
• Actively participate in scheduled production and team meetings 
• Provide internal and external weekly production status reports