This position is responsible for performing semi-skilled work in the set-up, staffing, and striking of events scheduled for the Reno-Sparks Livestock Event Center as well as the care, cleaning and maintenance of this facility. A Facility Worker is expected to be able to work without close supervision, and be willing to work irregular hours and days including overtime, weekends, holidays and night shifts.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Sets up and strikes equipment for events scheduled at the Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center including but not limited to chairs, tables, portable walls, pens, stalls, bleachers, staging or risers, barricades, furniture, and the like.
• Operates a forklift, aerial tower, platform and scissor lifts, and other equipment for set up of these events.
• Maintains the grounds and parking lots by picking up trash, sweeping, blowing off loading docks & sidewalks, monitoring and repairing the irrigation system. Also mows, thatches, and aerates lawns, prunes and fertilizes shrubs and trees, pulls and sprays weeds, pressure washes walks and entryways. Handles snow removal duties.
• Provides timely and courteous service to clients of the Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center in helping clients move in/out of the facilities, loading and unloading trucks, performing light maintenance and carpentry in the construction of booths, displays, and exhibits, and provides transport carts.
• Picks up debris on the floor and the bleachers and sweeps all corridors, bleachers, concourses, and bathrooms with an automatic scrubber, mop, or push broom. Removes any spillage, gum, and other foreign matter. Damp mops the flooring, bleachers, and staging.
• Empties all wastebaskets and other trash receptacles and replaces liners; high dusts and cleans the walls, air intakes and outlets, light fixtures, sills, and ledges.
• Maintains custodial supplies and equipment and tools used to clean the buildings and grounds.
• Will work with, instruct, and guide temporary help and Community Services Workers.
• Work around livestock and horses.
• Clean/ready stalls, maintain barn and grounds.
• Maintains professional and productive atmosphere.
• Report to work as scheduled and/or requested.
• Performs other duties as assigned or required.

BENEFITS: The Reno-Sparks Convention & Visitors Authority offers a comprehensive benefits package to all full-time employees:

• 100% employer paid Medical, Dental, Vision, Group Life, Long-term and Short-term Disability Insurance for employees.
• 50% employer paid Medical, Dental, Vision and Group Life Insurance for dependents.
• Enrollment in the Public Employees Retirement System of Nevada (100% employer paid contributions).
• Paid vacation and sick time.
• 12 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday.
• 457(b) Deferred Compensation plan.
• Additional voluntary supplemental insurance programs

JOB QUALIFICATIONS :

• Minimum of 1-2 years of experience performing maintenance/custodial work such as cleaning and maintaining buildings.
• Knowledge of the standard practices, materials, methods, equipment, and tools used in the custodial trades, including dust mops, spray buff machines, wet/dry vacuum, floor waxes and cleansers, furniture polishes, chemicals and disinfectants, metal cleansers, and the like.
• Ability to review and comprehend work assignments and operating manuals.
• Ability to effectively communicate, both in writing and verbally, with staff, visitors, vendors, and public.
• Ability to perform heavy and physically demanding work for lengthy and continuous periods of time.
• Skilled in cleaning assigned building areas using a variety of custodial equipment and materials.
• Ability to understand and carry out verbal and written instructions; establish and maintain cooperative working relationships; work independently in the absence of supervision.
• Possess a valid Nevada driver's license.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Regularly required to reach with hands and arms above and below shoulder level.
• Regularly required to stand, walk, bend (at neck and waist), stoop, twist, squat, kneel, crawl, climb, push, and pull, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• Simple grasping as well as repetitive use of hands and fine hand manipulation are needed to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• Frequently required to talk or hear.
• Regularly required to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORKING CONDITIONS /ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions
• Regularly works near moving mechanical parts and in outside conditions.
• Occasionally works in high, precarious places.
• Exposed to various weather conditions, fumes, airborne particles, and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment may be loud while performing certain duties and during events.