Event Shift Cleaner

The Florida Panthers enter the 2025-26 season as the two-time defending Stanley Cup Champions, having gone to the Stanley Cup Final in each of the past three seasons. The National Hockey League’s southernmost team, the Panthers have reached the postseason in a club-record six consecutive campaigns. The Panthers operate four facilities in Broward County, Florida: Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, the Panthers IceDen in Coral Springs, the new state-of-the-art practice facility Baptist Health IcePlex in Fort Lauderdale, as well as the renovated War Memorial Auditorium, which hosts concerts and events for the South Florida faithful.

 An organization with deep roots in the community, the Panthers are owned by Vincent J. Viola, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and a veteran of the U.S. Army. Emphasizing a culture of selfless service both on and off the ice, the Panthers pillar program ‘Heroes Among Us’ honors a United States military veteran at every game and the Florida Panthers Foundation has four main focuses including veterans affairs, children's health and education, raising awareness for the endangered Florida panther and growing youth hockey.

Job Title: Event Shift Cleaner
Department: Housekeeping
Reports To: Housekeeping Manager
FLSA: Non-Exempt
Employment Type: Part-Time
Location: War Memorial Aditorium, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Job Summary:
The Event Shift Cleaner is part time employment, event-based job. Each position ensures a safe and premium guest experience and report to the Housekeeping Manager. Hours are approximately 6 – 8 hours per event, 12 – 24 hours per week (hours per week vary due to event schedule), mostly nights, weekends, and possibly holidays.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensuring a safe and healthy environment for our guests.
• Comply with Housekeeping Standard Operating Procedures.
• Taking initiative on capturing issues as they occur. (Any numerous issues pertaining to housekeeping)
• Must maintain clear communication with supervisor and co-workers to ensure operational success.
• Report any safety issues to the Event Supervisor for assessment.
• Monitor restrooms (clearing, cleaning/sanitizing counters of used debris, flushing of used toilets and urinals) sweeping and/or mopping of wet and/or dry spills and debris.

• Clean, inspect and maintain assigned areas, frequently clearing waste and recycling receptacles during the event.

• Sweeping and mopping of all wet or dry spills. (Removal of debris, mopping up spillage and or stains)
• List of Housekeeping issues also captured:
• Cleaning behind maintenance on housekeeping issues (clogged toilet, flooding, etc.)
• Bio-spill clean up

Qualifications:

• Prior Custodial experience preferred
• Company Core competencies: work ethic, thriving in adversity, and empathy.
• Must understand and comply with company policies.
• Responds positively to management direction.
• Maintain neat and presentable attire during work hours.
• Committed to excellent work habits.
• Ability to listen effectively, take and follow instructions.

• Able to work in large crowds.
• Excellent verbal communication and intrapersonal skills. Must be able to follow instructions and provide information to other when needed.
• Punctual, dependable, and excellent work attendance required.
• Able to lift 25 lbs. without accommodation.
• Sound organizational and time management skills.
• Job reliability, diligence, dedication, and attention to detail.

• This is part time, hourly position based on events and hockey season.
• Must be able to work evenings, weekends, holidays.

Expected Hours of Work:
This is a non-exempt (hourly) position. Must be able to work flexible hours, nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.

Position Type(s):

• Waste removal crew, Floor attendants, Compactor crew/ Waste management sorters

Work Environment:

This position works in an arena where the noise level is generally high, crowd traffic is heavy, temperatures are variable – often cold; lights are bright or dark with occasional exposure to pyrotechnics.

Physical Demands:

Climbing - Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.

Balancing - Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling and walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.

Stooping - Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.

Kneeling - Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.

Crouching - Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.

Reaching - Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Standing - Particularly for sustained periods of time.

Walking - Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

Pushing - Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.

Pulling - Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.

Lifting - Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.

Grasping - Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Feeling - Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

Talking - Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Hearing - Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
 

Repetitive motion - Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.

At the Florida Panthers Hockey Club, Arena Operating Company, Panthers IceDen, Sanza Food Service, War Memorial Benefit Corporation, and FLA Team Shop, we strive to make every employee feel valued and respected for who they are and the unique contributions they make. We believe that a diverse and inclusive company is a more innovative and successful company, which is why we aim to infuse diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) into all aspects of our culture and our business.

We welcome all to apply and join our team.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.