Building Porter

Birmingham Hippodrome; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

Birmingham Hippodrome is seeking a Building Porter to join our onsite team. This 32-hour per week role (0.8 FTE) reports to the Stock Manager and involves work across bars, retail, hospitality, and kitchens to move stock and support building operations.

You will handle, move, and organise stock, assist with stocktakes, and ensure food safety and health & safety procedures are followed. A can-do attitude and strong organisational skills are essential for daily tasks and event support.

Responsibilities

• Moving and transporting stock through the building, including receiving deliveries and storing stock.
• Manual Handling, loading and unloading cages and trolleys.
• Organising stock and rotating stock between cellars and bars, ensuring easy access and safety.
• Assisting with monthly stocktakes and prep for stocktake.
• Food safety and health & safety procedures knowledge and compliance.
• Cleaning and maintenance to required cleanliness standards using COSHH procedures.
• Coordinating with management/events team to ensure stock is delivered on time.
• Assisting events team with room setups, striking, and moving furniture safely.
• Completing daily paperwork: delivery records, temperature checks, cleaning records, and area checks.
• Maintaining equipment such as jet washes, compactor, cages, and trolleys.
• Keeping the compactor yard and bin store clean and safe, supporting waste management and recycling.
• Maintaining high housekeeping, cleanliness, and presentation standards, reporting safety issues.
• Complying with safeguarding, GPR and health and safety requirements, delivering excellent service.
• Willingness to train and act as a First Aider when required.
• Representing Birmingham Hippodrome and serving as an ambassador for the organisation.

Job description

ABOUT US:

With a mission to enrich the cultural life of our region, Birmingham Hippodrome is one of the most popular theatre complexes in the UK. Varied productions in our 1,850-seat auditorium (dating from 1899), and in our 200-seat Patrick Studio ensure we play a key role in the region's world-class cultural scene. With c.400 live performances annually in our main house, we present nothing but the best in touring musical theatre, ballet, dance, opera, pantomime, drama, and comedy. Our Patrick Studio welcomes a range of smaller-scale productions and is an important base for dance and for the development of new artistic work.

Fun fact: If you stacked the number of ice creams we sold last year on top of each other it would make a tower 21 miles high! (that's an amazing 115,000 ice cream tubs).

KEY DETAILS ABOUT THE ROLE

Role Title: Building Porter

Hours: 32 hours per week (0.8 FTE)

Salary: £22,380.80 (Full time equivalent 27,976.00)

Location: Onsite at Birmingham Hippodrome

Reporting into: Stock Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION

Your Role:

You'll work across all areas of the building including bars, retail, hospitality and kitchens.

You'll be responsible for the handling, safe movement and organisation of stock and assets as well as supporting the functionality of the building. You'll be knowledgeable and efficient and a recognisable face within the venue.

This role is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a can-do attitude and a passion for organisation.

What you will be doing:

Supporting Stock:

• Moving and transporting stock through the building, including receiving deliveries (ensuring that delivery notes are correct), storing stock and moving items to required areas.


• Manual Handling, loading and unloading cages and trolleys in cellars and bars.


• Organising Stock, storing stock in the designated areas, ensuring stock is regularly rotated between cellars and bars, stock is easy to access and stored safely.


• Assisting with monthly stocktakes. Helping with the counts and ensuring that all areas are prepped in anticipation of stocktake.


• Be knowledgeable about food safety and health & safety working within our procedures and regulations.

Building Support:

• Cleaning & Maintenance, ensuring that all areas of the building are kept to the required cleanliness standards using correct COSHH procedures.


• Coordinating with management/events team through function sheets to ensure that all stock is delivered to required areas on time.


• Assisting the events team with any hospitality room set ups/striking/turn rounds, ensuring the safe movement of furniture around the building.


• Completing daily paperwork including delivery records, temperature checks, cleaning records and visual checks of areas.


• Maintaining and safely using equipment such as jet washes, compactor, cages, trolleys.


• Maintaining the cleanliness of the compactor yard, ensuring it is kept a clean and safe environment.


• Maintaining the cleanliness of the bin store and facilitating waste management and recycling procedures for the building.


• Keep the highest housekeeping, cleanliness and presentation standards. Be vigilant around the building identifying and reporting potential safety and security issues.

General:

• Comply with all statutory and Hippodrome requirements in terms of safeguarding, GPR and health and safety.


• Always delivering exceptional levels of service to our building.


• Approach your work with a positive and proactive "can do" attitude.


• Sound knowledge of health and safety procedures and how to support the building.


• Be willing to train and act as a First Aider when required.


• Represent Birmingham Hippodrome and act as an ambassador for our organisation.


• Every day is different, so we'd expect you to be open to other reasonable duties within your role as required.

ABOUT YOU:

You'll have strong organisational, time management and communication skills whilst having a proactive & flexible approach to your work. You'll be a good team player who goes above and beyond and offers support to others when needed. You'll work well under pressure, keeping calm and focused and have high standards around cleanliness and great attention to detail. You may also have previously worked in a fast-paced environment. That might be in a retail, restaurant, bar or another entertainment venue.

Recognising under-representation in our workforce of the global majority, and people with disabilities, we particularly welcome applicants from those backgrounds.