Event Operations Crew

Segerstrom Center For The Arts; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 23,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking an Event Operations Crew member to support and facilitate events across the campus. Working under Campus Operations and Event Production Management, you will help present world-class entertainment and education offerings.

The position is part-time, non-exempt, with a base pay of $16.50–$18.00 per hour. Candidates should have up to 2 years’ experience in event support or technical theater and be prepared to work in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Up to 2 years’ experience in event support or technical theater preferred.
• Able to communicate effectively with varying levels of staff as well as outside parties such as artists, vendors, and clients.
• Proactive work ethic with a willingness to learn and grow.
• Demonstrates helpful and cooperative conduct to co-workers.
• Willing to work efficiently and safely in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
• Follows directions and instructions.
• Should have a flexible schedule able to accommodate constantly shifting production and event needs.

Responsibilities

• Assists in the set-up of tables, chairs, risers, drapery, event décor and other elements as required, general event support.
• Assists under Event Staff direction in setting up theatrical systems such as lighting, audio, video, staging, drapery, and other needed theatrical production elements.
• Assists in general event support and facilities equipment maintenance, transport, storage, inventorying, and other support duties as needed.
• Assist in the set-up and selling of artist merchandise.
• *Other duties may be assigned by the supervisor in support of departmental goals

Skills

Effective communication

Flexible schedule

Proactive work ethic

Teamwork

Safety conscious

adaptability

Job description

• Base Pay $16.50 - $18.00 / Hour
• Employee Type PT Non-Exempt

Our Mission

Segerstrom Center for the Arts believes in the power of performing arts to transform lives and that the shared experience and exploration of the arts will help unite Orange County, creating a more culturally connected and vital community. We will help shape the Orange County of the future through meaningful collaborations with diverse communities, embracing creativity in all its forms and enabling a more inclusive, vibrant performing arts scene at the Center and across the region. We will maintain the excellence of our core artistic and educational programs while demonstrating the entrepreneurial resolve to extend resources, know-how and creativity into the communities we engage with. The Center will be transformed into a cultural hub and dynamic town square deeply ingrained in the fabric of our community. Artistically ambitious yet accessible to all, the Center will shine as the very model of the successful performing arts center of the future. We will show that together we thrive when we make the arts matter.

Job Summary

The Event Operations Crew (Event Crew) supports and facilitates events and shows throughout the Segerstrom Center for the Arts campus. Supporting all non-union and hybrid facilities, the Event Operations Crew, working under the direction of the Campus Operations and Event Production Management, is instrumental in the presentation and realization of much of the Center’s world class entertainment and education offerings.

Job Duties*

• Assists in the set-up of tables, chairs, risers, drapery, event décor and other elements as required, general event support.
• Assists under Event Staff direction in setting up theatrical systems such as lighting, audio, video, staging, drapery, and other needed theatrical production elements.
• Assists in general event support and facilities equipment maintenance, transport, storage, inventorying, and other support duties as needed.
• Assist in the set-up and selling of artist merchandise.

*Other duties may be assigned by the supervisor in support of departmental goals

Requirements

• Up to 2 years’ experience in event support or technical theater preferred.
• Able to communicate effectively with varying levels of staff as well as outside parties such as artists, vendors, and clients.
• Proactive work ethic with a willingness to learn and grow.
• Demonstrates helpful and cooperative conduct to co-workers.
• Willing to work efficiently and safely in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
• Follows directions and instructions.
• Should have a flexible schedule able to accommodate constantly shifting production and event needs.

Physical Demand

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to do a range of physical activities, including walking, running, pushing, and pulling.
• Demonstrate manual dexterity while using hands to finger, handle or feel, including use of keyboard.
• Must be able to speak and hear clearly.
• Frequently required to reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• May be required to climb a ladder.
• Clear vision is required by this job including close and at a distance, as well as the ability to see color.

* Consistent with its obligations under the law, Segerstrom Center for the Arts will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform essential functions of their job

Work Conditions

• · The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

Summary

Compensation

• Salary Range: $16.50-$18.00/hour; Part Time, Non-Exempt.
• 403B with match after probationary period
• Time Off (Sick)

EEO-1 Statement: Segerstrom is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, association with a member of a protected class, bereavement leave, color, disability (physical, intellectual/developmental, or mental health/psychiatric.), exercising the right to family care and medical leave related to serious health condition of employee or family member, child bonding, or military exigencies, engaging in protected activity, gender identity or expression, genetic information or characteristic, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristic), military and veteran status, national origin (includes language restrictions), pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions, Pregnancy Disability Leave (PDL), race (includes hairstyle and hair texture, religious creed (includes dress and grooming practices), reproductive health decision making, sex/gender, and sexual orientation.