- Take live music on the road across regional and remote Queensland
- Senior hands-on role combining production, touring and live audio
- Help bring Qld Music Trails’ Outback Trail 2027 to life
About Us
At Queensland Music Festival (QMF), we believe in the power of music to connect people, places and communities.
For more than 20 years, we’ve delivered festivals, regional music trails and cultural experiences across Queensland. Through Qld Music Trails, we take live music beyond traditional venues and into some of Queensland’s most distinctive locations.
If you’re looking for more than business-as-usual production, this is an opportunity to take your technical expertise on the road and help bring Outback Trail 2027 to life.
About the Opportunity
We’re looking for an experienced Touring Production & Technical Manager to lead the production advancing, technical coordination and QMF-side technical delivery of Outback Trail 2027.
Reporting to the Executive Producer, you’ll connect the technical pieces across artists, venues, suppliers, audio, lighting, staging, AV, budgets and schedules – making sure each event is technically prepared and ready to deliver.
This isn’t purely a desk-based production role. You’ll combine detailed planning and advancing with hands-on live audio engineering and on-road technical delivery.
One day you might be advancing an artist rider or coordinating a supplier package; another you’ll be troubleshooting a system, mixing a live performance or contributing to a bump-in somewhere in regional Queensland.
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll work across the planning, advancing and live delivery of the Trail, including:
- Advancing artist riders and technical requirements.
- Developing production scopes, technical specifications, schedules and delivery plans.
- Coordinating audio, lighting, staging, AV, backline, power and suppliers.
- Assessing technical requirements against budgets, supplier packages and venue capabilities.
- Preparing, testing and operating professional audio systems, show files and changeover plans.
- Providing high-quality live audio engineering and mixing across diverse artists and venues.
- Troubleshooting technical issues in live-event environments.
- Coordinating artists, touring crews, suppliers, venues and local technicians.
- Maintaining accurate production information across Airtable, SharePoint and other QMF systems.
- Leading technical briefings and keeping decisions and actions moving.
- Getting hands-on with bump-in, setup, testing, changeovers and pack-down.
- Supporting safe technical delivery and proactively managing production risks.
About You
You’re an experienced live music, touring, festival or event production professional who enjoys being close to the action.
You’re as comfortable reviewing an artist rider and building a production plan as you are behind a console or troubleshooting a problem during a live show. You’re organised, practical, calm under pressure and know that great technical delivery relies just as much on communication and preparation as it does on equipment.
You’ll bring:
- Strong live music, touring, festival or event production experience.
- High-level live audio engineering and mixing capability.
- Strong knowledge of professional audio systems, consoles, signal flow, microphones, RF, IEM/foldback and playback.
- Experience advancing artist riders and translating requirements into practical production solutions.
- Confidence coordinating suppliers, touring parties, venues and technical crews.
- Strong production planning and administration skills.
- Sound judgement and the ability to troubleshoot under pressure.
- A collaborative, practical approach and strong communication skills.
- The willingness to get hands-on with bump-in and pack-down.
- Flexibility to travel extensively throughout regional and remote Queensland during Trail delivery and undertake regional driving where required.
- Experience with Airtable and SharePoint will be highly regarded (but not a dealbreaker).
A Role That Moves With the Trail
This is a casual, project-based opportunity, ideally commencing in late September 2026 and continuing through to approximately late June/early July 2027.
Hours will fluctuate as the Trail moves through planning, advancing and live delivery, with periods of lower activity and periods requiring greater availability.
You’ll need the flexibility to work varying hours across the project and commit to significant travel and on-road availability during the Trail delivery period.
The position will be paid at a negotiated hourly casual rate, with rostered hours offered according to project and operational requirements.
Why Join Us?
- Take your skills on the road and experience regional and remote Queensland through live music.
- Be part of something with real impact – helping bring live music, cultural experiences and opportunities to regional and rural Queensland communities.
- Help create opportunities for regional artists and local creative communities to connect, perform and be part of something bigger.
- Work directly with artists, touring crews, production professionals and communities across some of Queensland’s most distinctive locations.
- Combine production leadership with hands-on technical and live audio delivery.
- Join a collaborative team that works hard, solves problems together and genuinely cares about the communities and artists we work with.
- See months of planning come to life – and experience firsthand the impact these events can have on the people and places that host them.
How to Apply
Please submit your CV outlining your relevant touring, production management and audio engineering experience, along with a short cover letter explaining why this opportunity interests you and briefly addressing the essential criteria. Please include examples of your experience using Airtable, SharePoint or comparable production systems.
Please also confirm your current location and availability across the engagement period from September 2026 to June 2027, including any known availability constraints and your availability for the full May 2027 touring period.
Applications close Friday, 4 September 2026. We’ll begin reviewing applications as they are received, so we encourage you to apply early.
Come help us take the show on the road!
