Event Support Crew Member II

City of Norfolk, VA; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Life insurance

Medical and dental benefits

Tuition assistance

Job summary

The City of Norfolk, VA, through SevenVenues, Department of Cultural Facilities, Arts and Entertainment, seeks a crew leader for events and facility maintenance. The role focuses on safety, coordination of setup/teardown, and ensuring quality in performance spaces and public venues.

Education and experience include an associate degree (preferred) and at least one year in special events; forklift certification is highly desired. This is a full-time, on-site position with benefits.

Qualifications

• Ability to read and understand written instructions and operate machines.
• One year of special events experience required; associate degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as crew leader; provide information, assign tasks, and ensure safety of job sites.
• Coordinate setup and teardown of events; install and repair event-related equipment.
• Maintain clean, safe facilities; perform building and grounds maintenance, lighting, and signage tasks.
• Operate and maintain portable equipment and City vehicles; schedule maintenance and transports for mobile stages.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Team leadership

Safety compliance

Education

Associate's degree

Tools

Forklift certification

Job description

Dive into the heart of arts, culture, and entertainment in Hampton Roads with SevenVenues, the City of Norfolk's Department of Cultural Facilities, Arts and Entertainment! We're the epicenter of unforgettable experiences, ensuring our diverse public assembly facilities – Scope Arena, Chrysler Hall, Attucks Theatre, Wells Theatre, Harrison Opera House, Harbor Park, and Open Air Events – remain vibrant and relevant. We connect residents, visitors, and tourists to Norfolk's rich cultural landscape, offering exceptional entertainment services and meticulous management of these iconic venues. Join us as we create, inspire, and celebrate through the power of live performances, diverse community events, and captivating public art – it's more than entertainment, it's an experience.

Department Hiring Salary Range: $42,398.72 - $48,653.51

Essential Functions

• Serves as crew leader by providing information, assigning tasks, assisting personnel, ensuring safety of job sites, performing inventory, completing work orders, ordering materials, maintaining records, generating and maintaining reports, contacting vendors and contractors for service calls and coordinating work with vendors, creating maintenance programs, assisting vendors and contractors and leading staff in projects which call for team labor such as furniture pickup and delivery, relocations and equipment installation.
• Collaborates with others to work as a team in the set up and cleanup of special events. Delivers, assembles, dismantles and stores event related equipment. Installs, removes and repairs chairs, tables, bleachers, risers, dashers, tents, furniture, bike racks, stages and fencing for special events. Utilizes a wide array of tools and equipment including forklifts, power washers, floor scrubbers and various gas/diesel powered small engine machines in the set up and dismantling of events. Sets and runs small PA equipment and podiums for City events. Utilizes safety equipment as needed while performing duties.
• Ensures event facilities are maintained in a clean, working order. Performs maintenance to buildings and grounds by repairing or replacing signs, banners and graphics, power washing the exterior of buildings, painting, changing light bulbs, checking parking lots and driveways for cleanliness, cleaning fountains, maintaining flag poles, installing lights, repairing and replacing hand railings, decking access ways and platforms, issuing keys, installing equipment, and repairing fences, seating, stages; and performs various other basic repairs as needed.
• Performs preventative maintenance of equipment by inspecting, maintaining and repairing portable equipment, tools and vehicles. Operates and maintains City vehicles, schedules maintenance with Fleet Management and coordinates scheduling of repairs. Transports the City's mobile stages to and from event sites and ensures compliance with preventative maintenance schedule.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education/Experience: Work requires the ability to read and understand written instructions, to understand simple processes and the routine operation of machines. Level of knowledge equivalent to less than high school or equivalency. Associate's degree, preferred. One year of special events experience required; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Forklift certification, highly desired.

Additional Information & Requirements

Work Location: 201 East Brambleton Ave, Norfolk, VA 23510

Work Hours: 40hrs / per week, Mon – Fri / 7:30am – 4:00pm. Must be able to work flexible hours including evenings, weekends, and holidays

• Regular full-time and permanent part-time employees may receive paid holidays, vacation and sick leave, employer paid pension plan, basic life insurance, voluntary participation in medical and dental, Section 457 deferred compensation, long-term disability, optional life insurance for self, spouse and children, medical and dependent care reimbursement plans, access to membership in credit union and employer provided parking.
• Special project/grant employees are generally eligible for the same benefits of regular full-time employees; however, retirement, life insurance and participation in health plans vary depending upon funding and authorization.
• Temporary/seasonal and part-time employees are generally only eligible for employer provided parking and access to membership in credit union.
• Retirement

If you are hired October 5, 2010, or after to a position with City of Norfolk Retirement System benefits, you will be required to contribute five percent (5%) of your salary toward your retirement benefit. This will be a pre-tax payroll deduction.

If you are hired January 1, 2022, or after to a position with Virginia Retirement System (VRS) benefits, you will be required to contribute five percent (5%) of your salary toward your retirement benefit. This will be a pre-tax payroll deduction.

• The Tuition Assistance Program is established to encourage employees toward continued self-development and education. Permanent full-time and permanent part-time classified, unclassified permanent, full-time special projects, and constitutional employees who have completed six months continuous service will be eligible to apply. The applicant’s school of enrollment must be an accredited institution.

Note

The benefits described above are broad generalizations. The specific benefits that an employee may be eligible for are governed by City regulations, as applicable to job type.

Non-City

Positions listed with a job type designation of "Non-City" are not subject to the benefits descriptions above. Refer to the content of the job posting for information regarding these positions.