Wasserman is looking for an Installation Manager (Dressing) to plan, coordinate, and deliver all dressing-related installations across assigned venues. This role acts as the key on-site lead, ensuring branding elements, overlays, graphics, and soft branding are delivered on time, on brand, and to specification.
What You'll Do
- Review drawings, scope books, and installation manuals related to dressing and branding elements.
- Understand and align installation schedules with overall project timelines.
- Coordinate with logistics teams for delivery, storage, and material flow on-site.
- Plan crew requirements (skilled, unskilled, specialists) per installation phase.
- Lead and supervise dressing installation crews across venues.
- Manage daily installation activities including branding, wayfinding, dressing, and final finishes.
- Ensure installations follow approved layouts, brand guidelines, and safety standards.
- Conduct daily briefings, toolbox talks, and task assignments.
- Perform quality checks to ensure all elements are installed correctly, securely, and cleanly.
- Identify issues, clashes, or deviations and propose corrective actions.
- Ensure compliance with venue rules, H&S regulations, and access protocols.
- Maintain snag lists and oversee close-out actions.
- Act as the main point of contact for dressing-related matters on-site.
- Coordinate with Dressing manager, Operations team, and Onsite crews to ensure timely delivery.
- Support inspections, walk-throughs, and client approvals.
- Oversee maintenance and touch-ups during live event periods.
- Manage removal, packing, and de-rig of all dressing elements post-event.
- Ensure assets are returned, stored, or disposed of per project requirements.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of experience in venue dressing, branding, overlays, graphics installation, or large-scale event delivery environments.
- Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary installation crews across complex venues (stadiums, arenas, major public events).
- Strong ability to interpret drawings, scope books, installation manuals, and brand guidelines.
- Demonstrated experience delivering projects on tight timelines within high-pressure live event environments.
- Solid understanding of large-format graphics, soft branding, structural branding elements, and finishing details.
- Strong leadership capability — confident leading daily briefings, coordinating multiple teams, and driving accountability on-site.
- Experience managing logistics coordination including delivery sequencing, storage, and material flow.
- Strong quality control mindset with experience managing snag lists and overseeing close-out actions.
- Thorough knowledge of health & safety standards, venue compliance requirements, and access protocols.
- Flexible and solutions-oriented, with availability to work extended hours, weekends, travel between venues, and oversee maintenance and de-rig phases.
Team & Environment
Acts as the key on-site lead between dressing manager, logistics, Onsite Crew, and venue stakeholders.
Work Mode
This role requires onsite presence at assigned venues and event locations.
Wasserman does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.
