Scenic Fabrication Director

Orlando, FL | Travel Required

About Memoir Agency

Memoir Agency is a nationally recognized experiential entertainment company specializing in immersive environments, large-scale live events, and seasonal productions. We create and operate our own ticketed experiences while also partnering with clients to design, produce, and execute unforgettable moments.

Our work spans concept through execution — including creative development, fabrication, logistics, installation, operations, and guest experience — delivering fully integrated experiential productions across the country.

We are a fast-growing organization with an entrepreneurial culture centered around collaboration, innovation, operational rigor, and meaningful storytelling through place and moment.

Position Summary

The Scenic Fabrication Director leads the translation of immersive concepts into operationally executable scenic environments.

This role bridges creative vision with practical execution — transforming concept art, renderings, and experiential narratives into modular, durable, installable scenic systems optimized for fabrication, logistics, permitting, transportation, storage, multi-market deployment, and long-term reuse.

The Scenic Fabrication Director serves as both a creative-technical leader and operational department head, responsible for guiding the evolution of Memoir’s scenic fabrication capabilities, team structure, production systems, execution standards, and field deployment methodologies across all experiential projects.

This role serves as a key cross-functional leader between Creative, Production, Operations, Logistics, Engineering, Procurement, and Field Installation teams, ensuring scenic environments maintain both artistic integrity and operational viability throughout their full lifecycle.

This role is instrumental in helping evolve Memoir’s fabrication capabilities into a true scenic fabrication department — integrating immersive storytelling, scenic finishing, engineered fabrication systems, and operational scalability into the company’s broader production ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

Scenic Systems Development & Creative Translation

• Translate concept art, renderings, and creative direction into executable fabrication and installation plans
• Develop scenic systems and fabrication methodologies that align with creative intent, operational realities, budgets, timelines, and installation constraints
• Lead technical planning for immersive environments, scenic structures, themed environments, show elements, and experiential activations
• Evaluate concepts through the lens of modularity, transportation, weather resistance, durability, repeatability, maintenance, and multi-year reuse
• Collaborate with Creative and Production teams to refine concepts into fabrication-ready execution strategies
• Participate in project scoping, budgeting, material selection, and production planning
• Balance visual storytelling with practical execution realities, ensuring environments maintain both immersion and operational functionality

Department Leadership & Production Management

• Lead the continued development of Memoir’s Scenic Fabrication Department, including team structure, workflows, standards, tooling, infrastructure, and operational systems
• Manage scenic fabrication budgets at both departmental and project levels
• Participate in forecasting labor, material, equipment, staffing, and infrastructure needs across multiple concurrent productions
• Oversee project management workflows related to scenic fabrication, ensuring alignment between creative direction, engineering, procurement, fabrication schedules, logistics, and field deployment
• Develop and maintain production schedules, staffing plans, fabrication timelines, and installation sequencing strategies
• Collaborate with executive leadership on departmental growth strategy, capital expenditures, fabrication capabilities, and long-term operational planning
• Lead hiring, mentorship, performance development, and team leadership for fabrication staff, scenic artists, leads, and installers
• Establish scalable systems for project tracking, fabrication documentation, quality assurance, asset lifecycle management, and post-project evaluation
• Support procurement strategy, vendor relationships, and fabrication partner management
• Ensure projects are executed within budgetary, scheduling, operational, and quality standards

Scenic Fabrication Leadership

• Lead fabrication teams in the construction of scenic environments, custom structures, themed elements, props, facades, and immersive installations
• Establish and refine fabrication standards, workflows, SOPs, and quality-control systems across scenic production
• Oversee fabrication sequencing, assembly methodology, and installation planning
• Develop scalable build systems that optimize labor efficiency, setup speed, storage footprint, transportation, and long-term asset maintenance
• Coordinate with engineering and production stakeholders when structural review, permitting, or specialty fabrication is required
• Ensure projects are designed and executed with field installation realities in mind
• Help establish fabrication best practices that support repeated deployment cycles and long-term operational sustainability

Scenic Finishing & Environmental Storytelling

• Lead or oversee scenic finishing techniques including painting, faux finishing, texturing, distressing, aging, carving, scenic detailing, and immersive environmental treatments
• Ensure scenic elements maintain visual consistency and storytelling integrity under both worklight and show lighting conditions
• Guide scenic execution that supports immersion, atmosphere, and guest experience objectives
• Integrate scenic overlays and finishing systems into fabricated environments in a way that supports durability and operational longevity
• Collaborate with Creative teams to maintain consistency between concept art and final guest-facing execution

Installation & Field Execution

• Lead and support on-site installations, strike operations, and deployment efforts nationwide
• Develop installation methodologies that prioritize safety, efficiency, repeatability, and field adaptability
• Troubleshoot fabrication and scenic challenges during installation and operation
• Coordinate cross-functional execution with production, logistics, operations, and field leadership teams
• Support the development of installation documentation, assembly guides, packing systems, deployment standards, and field SOPs
• Ensure field execution aligns with both creative objectives and operational realities

Operational Excellence & Safety

• Support fabrication and installation practices that align with AHJ considerations, engineering requirements, and life-safety awareness
• Promote a culture of organization, accountability, craftsmanship, safety, and continuous improvement
• Ensure fabrication shops, staging areas, and installation sites maintain safe and efficient working environments
• Help drive operational consistency across fabrication, scenic finishing, logistics, and field deployment
• Maintain confidentiality around proprietary creative, operational, and client-sensitive projects

Qualifications

• Strong experience within scenic fabrication, themed entertainment, experiential production, live entertainment, museum/exhibit fabrication, or related environments
• Demonstrated ability to translate conceptual creative into executable scenic systems
• Deep understanding of fabrication methodologies, scenic construction techniques, and installation workflows
• Experience leading teams, departments, or project workflows within fabrication or production environments
• Experience managing project budgets, production schedules, staffing coordination, or fabrication operations
• Knowledge of scenic finishing techniques including faux finishing, distressing, carving, texturing, scenic painting, and immersive environmental detailing
• Strong understanding of modular fabrication, logistics planning, transportation constraints, and reusable scenic infrastructure
• Ability to interpret renderings, technical drawings, fabrication documents, and production plans
• Strong problem-solving, organizational, leadership, and communication skills
• Ability to work in fast-paced, deadline-driven production environments while maintaining quality standards
• Willingness and ability to travel for installations and production deployments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within theme parks, immersive entertainment, experiential agencies, theatrical scenic shops, or large-scale public environments
• Familiarity with AHJ considerations, permitting coordination, engineering collaboration, and life-safety awareness within temporary or semi-permanent environments
• Experience designing for repeated installation and seasonal deployment cycles
• Experience developing SOPs, fabrication standards, or scalable scenic systems
• Familiarity with outdoor-rated materials, coatings, and environmental durability considerations
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams across creative, operations, logistics, and production environments

Core Competencies

• Systems thinking
• Creative problem-solving
• Operational awareness
• Leadership and accountability
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Strategic planning
• Attention to detail
• Adaptability under production pressure
• Ownership mentality
• Balance of creativity and practicality