Venue Maintenance Technician - Warner Theatre DC

Venue Maintenance Technician

Warner Theatre seeks a skilled Venue Maintenance Technician to maintain optimal venue conditions and enhance the fan experience. Responsibilities include performing a wide range of installation, troubleshooting, repair, and maintenance duties in compliance with safety protocols and predictive maintenance systems, ensuring alignment with the theatre's operational and business goals. As our Venue Maintenance Technician, you'll be the behind-the-scenes hero who ensures our facility is always event-ready. Your work will directly impact the comfort, safety, and enjoyment of thousands of guests, performers, and staff. Whether it's fixing a lighting fixture before showtime or ensuring a backstage toilet is in working order, you'll be the go-to problem solver, and "eyes" of the venue, who keeps the magic alive.

What This Role Will Do

• Inspect, repair, and replace venue seating from tightening bolts to replacing upholstery or damaged components.
• Maintain and repair restroom fixtures, including toilets, urinals, sinks, faucets, and flush mechanisms.
• Perform facility repairs including carpentry, painting, and drywall patching/finishing.
• Handle basic electrical repairs, such as replacing light fixtures, switches, outlets, and troubleshooting minor wiring issues.
• Maintain an organized inventory of repair parts, tools, and supplies tracking usage and reordering before stock runs low.
• Keep accurate records of repairs, recurring issues, and needed upgrades
• Perform preventive maintenance to reduce breakdowns during events.
• Respond quickly to urgent/unscheduled repair of venue facilities during (or between) events to minimize downtime.
• Set up and break down event-related equipment, from staging and seating to signage and safety barriers.
• Maintain cleanliness and safety in backstage, public, and staff areas, including the storage room, and assist with other deep cleaning duties as assigned.
• Coordinate with event managers, custodial staff, and external contractors to ensure smooth operations.
• Perform all other duties as assigned or needed.
• Pay rate: $20 - $25/hr

What This Person Will Bring

• 2+ years of experience in facility, building, or venue maintenance (or equivalent hands-on skills).
• Working knowledge of basic electrical, plumbing, carpentry, and mechanical systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve problems quickly under pressure.
• Comfort working evenings, weekends, and holidays as repair schedules require.
• A proactive, team-oriented mindset and pride in delivering a great guest experience.
• Ability to lift up to 75 lbs. and work on ladders or in tight spaces when needed.
• Must be highly motivated and able to work independently.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It's talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.

Live Nation strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation.

We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas.

We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact a Human Resources Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process. Live Nation will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case by case basis.

Hiring Practices The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Live Nation recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Live Nation may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.

**Please note that the compensation information provided is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and Equal Pay Transparency Rules. It is estimated based on what a successful Colorado applicant might be paid. It assumes that the successful candidate will be in Colorado or perform the position from Colorado. Similar positions located outside of Colorado will not necessarily receive the same compensation. Live Nation takes into consideration a candidate's education, training, and experience, as well as the position's work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the CO EPEWA, a potential new employee's salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.

The expected compensation for this position is:

$18.40 USD - $22.00 USD Hourly

** Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, qualifications, skills, and experience.

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