Spartan Race Canada
Job description
Position: Festival Event Staff
Location: On-Site
Reporting to: Festival Manager
Type of work : General Event Production
Company
A worldwide leader in endurance sports, Spartan is a high-growth, international organization that owns and operates mass-participation athletic events under the brands Spartan®, Tough Mudder®, Spartan Trail®, Hurricane Heat, and DEKA. Furthermore, we offer numerous related fitness, health and nutrition services and products. With 250 events across more than 40 countries on six continents, Spartan is the world’s leading extreme wellness and endurance brand. Spartan caters to individuals looking to test their physical limits through obstacle course racing and change their frame of reference for what they can accomplish. From everyday people looking to get off the couch and lead an active lifestyle, to elite endurance athletes who seek the ultimate physical test, there is room for everyone.
Benefits of working at Spartan:
• Get paid to travel throughout Canada and put on life changing events
• All inclusive travel expenses included
• Meals and accommodations included
• Break away from your typical 9-5 and experience working outdoors with like minded individuals
• Experience the rewarding, high paced environment of event production
• Culture of camaraderie, accountability and empowerment
Job Overview:
Reporting to the Festival Manager, the Festival Event Staff is responsible for collaborating with the festival team to assemble the Festival area for our events. As a Festival Event Staff, you will play a vital role in the execution of a successful event through the set up, event days, and tear down.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
• Unload and organize the contents of the Festival Trailer within base camp
• Coordinate with the Festival Manager the layout of the festival to ensure the placement of branding, tents, fencing, ect.
• Supervise and lead the assembly of tents
• Maintain high tempo of productivity and efficiency among staff with forward insight into tasks vital to the completion of festival
• Manage volunteers and support staff in an efficient and deliberate manner through delegation of tasks
• Create zone specific fence lines
• Be available to deliver supplies and volunteers to areas of need during race days
• Be able to maneuver through festival on race day with an understanding of what needs to be done at varying times (volunteer switchover, staff breaks, sponsorships needs, directing volunteers to areas of need)
• Gather, clean, organize and inventory all branding at the conclusion of the race, then return to designated storage locations
• Lead volunteers and support staff in the disassembling and storage of all tents
• Operate and load all festival materials back into the festival trailer after being provided a load plan by the Festival Manager
• Load/unload trailers using heavy equipment.
Qualifications:
• Proven leadership and management abilities
• Proven success in a rapidly changing, high operational tempo work environment.
• Have a proven attention to detail and ability to multitask
• Be proficient with the entire Microsoft Office Suite and cloud based computing software packages (Google Drive, Excel, etc).
• Have experience working in a high pace environment
• Possess a valid driver’s license without restrictions; clean driving record.
Requirements:
• Be comfortable traveling for periods of time, amounting to two weeks at a time
• Be prepared and comfortable with working outside in austere weather
• Be physically capable of working long hours 11+ days consecutively
• Have experience operating machinery, or be willing to learn
• Work in poor weather, long hours, and fast-paced challenging conditions.
• Willingness and ability to travel 12+ days at a time with 100% travel.
• Frequently works 11+ hour days outdoors, in adverse conditions for extended periods of time.
• Demonstrate full range of movement including but not limited to lifting, standing, bending, reaching, twisting, and crawling.
• Occasionally lifts, pushes, pulls, and moves equipment and material weighing up to 100 pounds.
• Regularly required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• Occasionally climb ladders and work off elevated surfaces as well as climb up onto and down from equipment.
Qualities required of all Spartan team members:
Spartan Race is a high-performance organization, and successful team members must therefore possess a strong work ethic and hands-on approach to business. We are innovative, create inventive solutions, and are exceptionally service minded. Team members at Spartan change lives, and have a passion for the organization. Paramount to our organization is the maturity to embrace ambiguity and ability to adapt according to the market and the continuing innovation of the organization.
• Ability to hold one-self accountable and an aptitude for prioritizing multiple projects
• Strong sense of teamwork with the ability to foster relationships
• Proactive, solutions-oriented; capability to identify efficiencies and decrease costs while maintaining a quality workplace environment and product
• Collegial approach to a business environment and cooperative work style
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
Job Types: Part-time, Fixed term contract, Seasonal
Contract length: 6 months
Pay: $250.00 per day
Schedule:
• 12 hour shift
• Day shift
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed
Application question(s):
• Are you willing to work outdoors on your feet for an extended period of time in all weather conditions
• Do you have any outdoor manual labour/event labour experience?
• Are you willing to operate heavy machinery if given the proper training and certifications?
Experience:
• event: 1 year (preferred)
• Manual Labour: 1 year (preferred)
Language:
• English (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
• Driving Licence (required)
Willingness to travel:
• 100% (preferred)
Work Location: On the road
Expected start date: 2025-05-01