Event Operations Crew

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

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.

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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• · 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…