We are looking to hire experienced and enthusiastic individuals to join our site team in maintaining Assembly festival sites throughout the busy summer period. Working with our site management team, the presentation team will ensure all sites run smoothly and look fantastic to help welcome thousands of Fringe go-ers to our sites and venues.
Roles are available in Edinburgh for the live festival dates in August: 5th - 31st August. Build/Break work is also available for the work periods around live operation: please apply direct for this work.
Roles are paid the Real Living Wage at a minimum of £13.45 per hour, paid fortnightly in arrears.
Staff are required to be 18+ due to the licensed nature of our sites, and have a legal right to work in the UK, no Visas are able to be offered for these roles.
We're looking for enthusiastic and experienced team members to join our site carpenters and Site Managers to help build and break the Festival as well as experienced site crew for the run!
We're interested in hearing from you if you have experience in construction/carpentry/festival or event building/fencing and scaffolding and painting as well as plant operators or build crews. Roles are offered on a contract basis and run on varying dates between June an July for the build and late August to September for the break.
There are additional site crew roles based on a full time rota across the festival.
Roles are paid dependent on skill set and experience but are no less than £13.45 per hour.
Edinburgh City Centre - 5th August - 31st August 2026
Assembly Festival is one of the longest-running and most prestigious of the multi-space venues operating as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. For more than four decades we have welcomed thousands of artists onto the Assembly stages. Last year presented around 250 shows across August and this year Assembly Festival once again brings back the magic to the city and be a part of the 79th Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
We have come a long way since our first festival 45 years ago, in Edinburgh when our founder and artistic director William Burdett-Coutts OBE took on the iconic Assembly Rooms venue to host several shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and this year we are hoping for it to be our best yet!
Our temporary roles are now live on this site - please apply as soon as possible, as we do close our applications once the positions are full. Listed are all our current vacancies and available roles, and how to apply for an opportunity to join the team working on these exciting events.