Event and Banquet Setups - Full Time

Mall of America • Bloomington, MN

19d

About The Position

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

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work variable and/or rotating shifts including nights, weekends and holidays.
• Ability to work as independently or as part of a team.
• While performing the duties of this job, the team member will continuously be required to talk and listen to guests, co-workers and leaders to understand needs and communicate a solution. Team member must possess a level of hearing that will allow them to be aware of their surroundings, respond to the needs of guests and leadership, as well hear alarms, radios, and sounds from machines and vehicles. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Team members are required to be able to tolerate multiple sensory stimuli at once while performing their duties. These stimuli may include loud auditory/noise, smells/olfactory, lights, colors, motion, and other visual stimuli. Team members must be able to tolerate working in varying temperatures (hot + cold) in a semi enclosed workspace and working in areas with strong odors.

Nice To Haves

• Previous event or banquet set up experience, preferred
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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, but is not limited to, clearing used dishes and glassware from the tables, straightening and resetting tables and chairs, changing soiled table linen, seeping 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 bringing 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 cleaning of events space, including wash walls, tables, chairs, pillars, fixtures, glass, windows, baseboards, ledges, and sanitizing restrooms.
• Assist in Waste + Recycling Center.
• Separate waste from the recyclables
• Empty trash and cardboard containers into compactors and bailers.
• Operate wet waste and recycling compactor, and empty cardboard compactors and bailers.
• Operator 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.

Benefits

• In addition to your pay, Mall of America is passionate about the future of our team members, we want to ensure you have a wealth of support and resources, to care for yourself and your loved ones. Our one-of-a-kind job perks for most team members include, team member discounts, free Nickelodeon Universe ride passes, Teladoc, Employee Assistance Program, generous tuition reimbursement, and FREE Metro Pass Universal Pass. Mall of America offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your loved one’s care for your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k) match, short term disability, long term disability, paid parental leave, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at Job Perks + Benefits | Mall of America®

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees