Post 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: Post Shift Cleaner
Department: Housekeeping
Reports To: Post Shift Supervisor
FLSA: Non-Exempt
Employment Type: Part-Time
Location: Amerant Bank Arena

 

Job Summary:
The Post Shift Cleaner is a part-time, event-based position responsible for maintaining a clean, safe, and welcoming environment following scheduled events. This role plays a critical part in delivering premium guest experience by ensuring all assigned areas meet established cleanliness and safety standards. The Post Shift Cleaner reports directly to the Post Supervisor. The position averages approximately 29 hours per week, with schedules varying based on event activity. Shifts primarily occur during evenings, weekends, and may include holidays.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain a clean, safe, and sanitary environment
• Adhere strictly to established Housekeeping Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Proactively identify and address housekeeping issues as they arise, demonstrating initiative and accountability.
• Maintain clear and professional communication with supervisors and team members to ensure efficient operations.
• Immediately report safety hazards or concerns to the Post Supervisor for proper assessment and resolution.
• Remove trash and recycling materials, ensuring proper disposal procedures are followed.
• Conduct sweeping, mopping, debris removal, and quality control inspections of bowl seating to ensure readiness for subsequent events.
• Clean, inspect, and maintain assigned areas, including the frequent removal of waste and recycling materials after events.
• Support housekeeping-related maintenance needs, including:
• Assisting with cleaning after maintenance issues.

Qualifications

• Prior custodial or housekeeping experience preferred
• Demonstrated alignment with company core competencies, including strong work ethic, resilience, and empathy
• Ability to understand and comply with company policies and procedures
• Receptive to supervision and responsive to management direction
• Maintains a professional appearance and attire during work hours
• Strong listening skills and ability to follow instructions accurately
• Ability to work effectively in large crowds and fast-paced environments
• Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Punctual, dependable, and reliable attendance required
• Ability to lift to 25 pounds without accommodation
• Strong organizational and time-management skills
• High level of reliability, diligence, and attention to detail
• Ability to work evenings, weekends, and holidays as required by event schedules and hockey season

 

 Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
This is a part-time position. Hours of work are based on event schedule and are mostly nights, weekends and occasional holidays.

 

Work Environment

This role is performed within a large arena environment. Noise levels are frequently high, crowd traffic is heavy, temperatures may vary and are often cold, lighting conditions may change, and there may be occasional exposure to special effects such as 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.