What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mercantile Hall DJ position at Mercantile Hall?
Description
Job Posting
Title: DJ, BEDO Brands
Spin love stories—join BEDO Brands as a Wedding DJ!
Who We Are
The BEDO Sound DJ duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
Job Posting
Title: DJ, BEDO Brands
Spin love stories—join BEDO Brands as a Wedding DJ!
Who We Are
- Our Mission: Make Other People Shine
- Our Core Values:
- CARE: We care first for each other, then customers
- SERVICE: We wow our customers with service and hospitality
- PROCESS: We follow repeatable systems to ensure consistently excellent experiences for our customers and co-workers
- IMPROVEMENT: We constantly improve and raise the bar on our service experience, our facility, our brand, ourselves
The BEDO Sound DJ duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Communicate with couples in the weeks leading up to their event and complete all pre-event DJ tasks.
- Prepare playlist for each couple’s event, using the BEDO Sound MC form for a list of the couple’s preferred songs and styles.
- Set up BEDO Sound equipment (speakers, microphones, sound board, lights) for ceremonies, both indoor and outdoor, and receptions.
- Assist officiants, family, bridal party members and couples with using the microphone for the ceremony, toasts and speeches.
- Play music for ceremony, cocktail hour, dinner and dancing using the couple’s preferences and guest requests.
- Make announcements for the couple or event staff as needed throughout the day, confirming pronunciation of names and any pertinent details.
- Maintain awareness of event timeline and work with Event Manager to coordinate the timing of important event milestones, such as asking guests to be seated, grand march and first dances.
- Maintain awareness of the crowd’s response to music selections and adjust as necessary to create a full and lively dance floor.
- Take down and safely store BEDO Sound equipment at the conclusion of each event.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Friday-Sunday availability.
- Must act with absolute integrity and honesty.
- Ability to read, speak and understand the English language.
- Ability to lift/carry up to 30 pounds.
- Ability to stand for extended periods of time.
- Ability to work holidays, including New Year's, St Patrick's Day, and Halloween (depending on whether an event is booked on that date).
- The ideal candidate would be able to DJ events at our venue in Burlington, WI as well as our venue in Janesville, WI.
- We provide all of the equipment you need—you do not need to load and unload heavy speakers and sound boards from your car and bring them in each shift-we have all of that and more at our venues for you to use.
- Weddings are fun! You are DJ'ing an event for one of the happiest days of a couple's life-it's a great atmosphere with happy people.
- Free dinner—enjoy a free catered meal every shift you work.
- We sell and schedule the gigs for you—you don't have to deal with booking the couples, we simply schedule you for your events and you show up.
- Weddings almost always end at midnight. No super late nights, no getting home at 4am from a gig. Our DJs are typically packed up and heading home by 12:30am.
- Learn from veteran DJs! We provide extensive training on our equipment with experienced DJ's.
- Training, Onboarding & Orientation, Observations: $10.00 per hour
- Monthly Meetings: $17.00 per hour
- Blueprint Modules: $25.00 per completed module
- Launch Events: $300.00 per event
- Standard Event: $400.00 per event
- Non-Standard Event: A rate will be determined at the discretion of BEDO Brands and offered to the employee
Salary : $25