Event and Banquet Setups

Shift: 10am – 6:30pm

This position is responsible for the cleanliness and efficient set‑up and breakdown of event spaces for a variety of meetings, banquets and small‑scale events at Mall of America. The role may also assist as needed in the Waste + Recycling Center while ensuring a memorial shopping and entertainment experience.

• Set event rooms per specifications on room layout or diagrams and/or given by Partnership Sales, ensuring quality room presentation.
• Tear‑down and reset event space in preparation for next event.
• Clean event rooms including clearing used dishes and glassware, straightening and resetting tables and chairs, changing soiled table linen, sweeping or vacuuming floors and removing trash.
• Ensure proper care, movement, storage of all equipment such as tables, chairs, sign holders, easels, room supplies, etc.
• Ensure service corridors, pre‑function space and storage areas are clean, organized and unobstructed.
• Complete a quarterly inventory of equipment and report back to Partnership Sales department.
• Clean, check and perform simple maintenance on equipment regularly; report and bring damaged or broken equipment to maintenance for timely repair.
• Read, understand and follow event set‑up diagrams or written room layouts for proper setup; understand and follow verbal instruction.
• Maintain cleanliness of floors within event spaces, use commercial cleaning equipment to buff/shine hard floors and clean and extract carpet.
• Deep clean event space, including washing walls, tables, chairs, pillars, fixtures, glass, windows, baseboards, ledges and sanitizing restrooms.
• Assist in Waste + Recycling Center.
• Separate waste from recyclables.
• Empty trash and cardboard containers into compactors and bailers.
• Operate wet waste and recycling compactor, and empty cardboard compactors and bailers.
• Operate auto scrubber, pressure washer and other powered machinery to clean sub‑level and service corridors.
• Clean trash and recycling rooms, including sweeping, mopping and pressure washing.
• May operate a forklift to move materials on and around loading dock.
• Monitor loading dock activity to ensure items are disposed of in the proper location.
• Ensure emergency stairwell and exits throughout the mall are clear of trash and debris.
• Ensure the overall safety of the immediate work area as well as surrounding areas.
• Additional duties as assigned.

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Previous event or banquet set‑up experience, preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience reading banquet or event set‑up diagrams or blueprints and room layouts.
• Previous cleaning experience, preferred.
• Experience safely operating equipment used in commercial cleaning such as auto scrubber, floor buffer, vacuum and other powered equipment.
• Ability to work variable and/or rotating shifts including nights, weekends and holidays.
• Ability to work as independently or as part of a team.

• Walk:
  Frequently, about 75% of the time.
• Stand:
  Frequently, about 65% of the time.
• Sit:
  Occasional, about 20% of the time.
• Bend/Stoop:
  Occasional, about 35% of the time.
• Kneel/Squat:
  Infrequently, about 30% of the time.
• Climb:
  Rarely, about 10% of the time.
• Lift/Carry
  • Up to 25 lb:
    Frequently, about 70% of the time.
  • 26–50 lb:
    Occasionally, about 55% of the time.
  • Over 50 lb:
    Occasionally, about 60% of the time.
• Push/Pull
  • Less than 45 lb:
    Occasionally, about 35% of the time.
  • Over 45 lb:
    Occasionally, about 30% of the time.
  • 150‑lb carts on wheels:
    Occasionally, about 40% of the time.
• Twist:
  Occasionally, about 35% of the time.
• Reach above shoulders:
  Occasionally, about 35% of the time.
• Reach at or below shoulders:
  Frequently, about 65% of the time.
• Reach at/below waist:
  Frequently, about 65% of the time.
• Dexterity:
  Continuously, about 75% of the time.
  • Use of both hands is required to perform most duties.

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