Operations Event Staff|Part-time| Stormont Vail Events Center

Spectra; Topeka (KS); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A venue management organization in Topeka is seeking a part-time facility maintenance worker. Responsibilities include setting up for events, maintaining cleanliness, and performing routine maintenance tasks. The ideal candidate must have a high school diploma, good communication skills, and the ability to lift up to 50 pounds. This role offers an hourly wage of $14.00 - $15.00 and is based at Stormont Vail Events Center.

Benefits

401(k) savings plan

401(k) matching

Qualifications

• Must possess basic communication skills to interact with show managers, vendors, and the general public.
• Experience in operation of forklift, skid loader, and boom lift is preferred.
• Must be physically capable of heavy lifting up to 50 pounds.

Responsibilities

• Performs routine to moderate tasks setting up facility inventory per instructions.
• Assists with staffing events and interacts with clients.
• Performs clean-up tasks after events, sweeping, mopping, and cleaning.

Skills

Basic communication skills

Mathematical skills

Ability to work in team

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Tools

Forklift

Skid loader

Boom lift

Job description

Overview

Oak View Group is the global leader in venue development, management, and premium hospitality services for the live event industry. Offering an unmatched, 360-degree solution set for a collection of world-class owned venues and a client roster that includes the most influential, highest attended arenas, convention centers, music festivals, performing arts centers, and cultural institutions on the planet.

Position Summary: Performs facility set-ups, tear-downs, clean-up and routine building maintenance as scheduled. Light to moderate building maintenance is included in these requirements

This role will pay an hourly wage of $14.00 - $15.00.

Benefits for PT roles: 401(k) savings plan and 401(k) matching.

EVERGREEN ROLE: Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis; there is no application deadline.

About the Venue

This position is based at Stormont Vail Events Center. The 80-acre site in the center of Topeka now known as the Stormont Vail Events Center has a long history of use for activities related to agriculture, farming, exhibitions, education and entertainment. Stormont Vail Events Center is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena built in 1987 in Topeka, Kansas. Landon Arena, named for Kansas\' elder statesman, governor Alfred M. Landon (1887–1987) was built 1987.

Responsibilities

• Performs routine to moderate tasks setting up facility inventory per instructions received from Operations Manager, Full Time Operations staff, on event work orders
• Assists with staffing events and interacts with clients in providing physical facility needs and custodial duties per event requirements
• Performs routine to moderate tasks maintaining facility floors, staging, risers, chairs, dasher boards, sport turf and other event inventory as needed
• Performs moderate to difficult set-ups in livestock facilities and works around some livestock
• Performs clean-up tasks after events, including but not limited to: sweeping, mopping, cleaning restrooms, dressing rooms, showers, and other backstage areas

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent is required
• Must possess basic communication skills to interact with show managers, vendors, and the general public and temporary and part-time help
• Must have basic mathematical skills to assist in expediting physical facility inventory setups for events
• Experience in operation of forklift, skid loader and boom lift or other equipment is preferred
• Ability to listen and follow directions explicitly, be capable of working well as a part of a team as well as alone
• May work in extreme heat or cold, and may work in dusty and enclosed environments. Irregular hours are required as dictated by events
• Must be physically capable of heavy lifting up to 50 pounds

Equal Opportunity Employer

Oak View Group is committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally recognized basis (“protected class”) including, but not limited to veteran status, uniform service member status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other protected class under federal, state, or local law.