Aberdare Stores Technician

The Royal Ballet & Opera; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading arts organization is seeking a full-time Stores Technician based in Aberdare, Wales. The role involves maintaining storage areas, unloading and reloading scenery and costumes, and ensuring technical excellence in performances. A strong understanding of warehousing operations and safety standards is required. Applicants should demonstrate their ability to work independently and communicate effectively, with a closing date for applications on December 18, 2025. Interviews will be conducted in-person the week of January 5, 2026.

Qualifications

• Ability to train in and safely operate various loading equipment.
• Experience in warehousing and theatre operations.
• Familiarity with records systems for storage and distribution.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the stores areas to the highest standards.
• Unload and reload scenery, props, costumes, and equipment.
• Manage complex needs and statistical logging data for the organization.

Skills

Ability to train in and operate loading equipment

Understanding of warehousing and theatre operations

User of records systems for warehousing/storage/distribution

Experience in asset management systems

Basic understanding of Microsoft Office

Ability to work unsupervised

Strong awareness of Health and Safety policy

Tools

4way narrow-aisle reach truck

counterbalance fork truck

Mafi EFY 70 four-way reach truck

Chain hoists

Job description

Based in: Aberdare, Wales The Royal Ballet and Opera continues to lead the way in opera, ballet, music and dance both live on stage and through multiple digital platforms, from live streaming to worldwide cinema screenings. Our Covent Garden theatre has been at the heart of London and British cultural life for three centuries. We are home to two world-class Companies: The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera.

Permanent contract Full time; 42.5 hours per week £33,829.6 [Grade E] per annum Based in: Aberdare, Wales The Royal Ballet and Opera continues to lead the way in opera, ballet, music and dance both live on stage and through multiple digital platforms, from live streaming to worldwide cinema screenings. Our Covent Garden theatre has been at the heart of London and British cultural life for three centuries. We are home to two world-class Companies: The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera.

The Role

Our Technical, Production and Costume Department plays a leading part in ensuring our performances are of the highest quality by delivering technical excellence for every performance, rehearsal, and event.

Our specialist store in Aberdare covers 14,000m² and was built in 1995 with the purpose of storing our custom-made pallet system for Royal Ballet and Opera costumes and scenery. The team working onsite manage the complex needs and statistical logging data for the busy requirements of the organisation in the UK and worldwide.

We are seeking to recruit a Stores Technician for our facility in Aberdare. In this role you will be responsible for maintaining the stores areas to the highest standards of storage and retrieval. You will carry out unloading and reloading of scenery, props, costumes and any equipment to and from the stores.

What You’ll Bring

• Ability to train in and safely operate loading equipment including but not limited to:
• 4way narrow-aisle reach truck
• counterbalance fork truck
• Mafi EFY 70 four-way reach truck.
• Chain hoists.
• An understanding of warehousing and theatre operations
• User of records systems for warehousing/storage/or distribution
• Experience in assets management systems for warehousing or distribution
• Basic understanding of Microsoft Office
• Ability to work unsupervised and show initiative in dealing with day-to-day problems.
• Strong awareness of and adherence to Health and Safety policy and best practice

To submit your application, please provide a supporting statement that outlines how your skills and experience match the essential criteria listed above. We recommend drafting your response in a separate document and then copying the final version into the application form. Please note that as part of our commitment to anonymised shortlisting, panels do not view CVs during the recruitment process. If you choose to upload your CV, our system will automatically pull information from your CV into our application form.

Closing date for applications: Midnight, Thursday 18th December 2025.

Interviews will be held in-person the week of 5th January 2026

The Royal Ballet and Opera is one of the UK’s leading arts organisations and our aim is to inspire imagination, ignite emotion and make the extraordinary for everyone. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion underpin all that we do. We want our people to be representative of the diversity in the UK. We understand the creativity and innovation that diversity can bring and strive to create an inclusive environment in which everyone can thrive.

We encourage applications from people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and skills to join our teams. We particularly welcome applications from those who are from a global majority background and/or those who are disabled, as they are under-represented within our organisation.

We are a Disability Confident Employer, which means that we are actively working to ensure that candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will endeavour to offer an interview to candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they meet the essential criteria for the role, though sometimes due to the volume of qualified candidates with declarations this is not possible.

The RBO is also committed to safeguarding and protecting all children, young people, and adults and we implement robust safer recruitment practices. Due to our safeguarding promise, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check before commencing employment with us will be indicated in the advertising.

Job Description

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Applicants must have work authorisation for the UK. No agencies.