Venue Porter

Bournemouth International Centre; England; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading event venue operator in the UK is seeking a Venue Porter to join their team. This role involves providing excellent customer service across dual sites while performing tasks such as transporting and assembling furniture. Candidates must hold a valid driving licence and understand health and safety requirements. The position offers diverse benefits, including onsite parking and a gym membership. Flexibility for evening and weekend hours is required.

Benefits

Onsite parking

Training and development opportunities

Gym membership

Health cash plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Company pension matched up to 6% contributions

Colleague discount on food and drink

Birthday / Celebratory day off

Loyalty Rewards

Qualifications

• Valid driving licence is mandatory.
• Understanding of health and safety requirements is required.
• Forklift licence preferred but will be supported.

Responsibilities

• Store, transport, and move furniture.
• Ensure presentation of areas to a high standard.
• Operate a forklift; training provided.

Skills

Valid driving licence

Understanding of health and safety requirements

Forklift operation

Tools

Forklift

Job description

Post Title: Venue Porter

Site Location: Bournemouth International Centre and Bournemouth Pavilion

Salary: £25,278 per annum

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent, annualised contract

The role:

BH Live is recruiting for a Venue Porter to join our busy team; you will provide great customer service over dual sites and no day will ever be the same. You will work in an exciting, fast paced environment.

Due to the nature of the work, you will be required to work evenings, weekends, bank holidays and provide occasional overnight cover.

You will:

• Store, transport, assemble and move furniture.
• Ensure our set areas are presented to a high standard and ready on time.
• Operate a forklift (training can/will be provided and is paid for by BH Live)

To be successful you will need:

• A valid driving licence.
• An understanding of health and safety requirements.
• Ideally, we would like you to have a forklift licence, but if not we can support you with this.

Please click here to view the job description for more details on this role.

We offer:

• Onsite parking
• Training and development opportunities
• BH Live Active - Gym membership
• Health cash plan
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Company pension matched up to 6% contributions
• Colleague discount on food and drink
• Colleague recognition
• Birthday / Celebratory day off
• Loyalty Rewards

About BH Live:

We are one of the UK’s leading leisure and event venue operators – a registered charity and social enterprise.

Our geographical reach spans across multiple venues, leisure centres and attractions across Portsmouth, Southampton, Croydon and the BCP region with millions of visits per year.

Our organisational and charitable purpose is to generate:

• More participation – through the provision of leisure facilities to encourage active communities, improved health, and wellbeing
• Higher audiences – through the provision of a diverse range of cultural and artistic events that appeal to a wide audience
• Greater economic and social benefit – through hosting major conferences, exhibitions, and events for the benefit of the local, regional, and international economies and people

We are making a positive difference across the communities we serve.

To apply:

All applications are to be made via our careers site: BH Live - Careers Site

BH Live reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible.