What are the responsibilities and job description for the Festival Lead position at Spartan?
Description
ABOUT US
Welcome to the Spartan Race! We redefine working hard, playing harder, and being part of the most exhilarating team in endurance sports. Our events, including Spartan®, Tough Mudder®, and DEKA, push individuals and teams beyond their limits. We also offer fitness, health, and nutrition services to transform lives. Join us in breaking boundaries and making the impossible possible.
About The Gig
Location:
Department: Race Operations
Type
As a Festival Lead at Spartan Race, you'll be at the forefront of overseeing the setup, management, and breakdown of festival areas at our events. This hands-on role requires leadership, coordination, and problem-solving to ensure an efficient, high-energy event experience.
Duties/Responsibilities
REQUIREMENTS:
ABOUT US
Welcome to the Spartan Race! We redefine working hard, playing harder, and being part of the most exhilarating team in endurance sports. Our events, including Spartan®, Tough Mudder®, and DEKA, push individuals and teams beyond their limits. We also offer fitness, health, and nutrition services to transform lives. Join us in breaking boundaries and making the impossible possible.
About The Gig
Location:
Department: Race Operations
Type
As a Festival Lead at Spartan Race, you'll be at the forefront of overseeing the setup, management, and breakdown of festival areas at our events. This hands-on role requires leadership, coordination, and problem-solving to ensure an efficient, high-energy event experience.
Duties/Responsibilities
- Unloading and organize the contents of the Festival Trailer within base camp
- Gather and verify inventory of tents from previous race and prepare for distribution
- Coordinate with Festival Manager and Race Director the layout of festival to ensure all activations, tents and fence lines fit within the specific guidelines and limitations of the venue
- Supervise and lead the assembly of all Spartan owned tents (20x20s, 10x20s, 10x10s)
- Transport (operate a skid) zone supplies as tents and zones are assembled
- Maintain a high tempo management style to ensure the productivity and efficiency among staff is optimal during build week and race day(s)
- Supervise the distribution of toilets and handle any questions as instructed by Festival Manager
- Manage volunteers and support staff in an efficient and deliberate manner through delegation of tasks.
- Create/oversee zone specific fence lines
- Have all materials necessary for support staff to set up zones and distributed from base camp to zones
- Be available to run supplies and volunteers to areas of need in festival, both build week, race day(s), and load out
- Be able to maneuver through festival on race day with an understanding of what needs to be done at varying times (volunteer switchover, staff breaks, checking power sources, directing volunteers to areas of need)
- Supervise and lead the taking down and storage of all Spartan owned tents
- Supervise the cleaning and packing of zone materials into zone specific crates
- Operate and load all festival materials back into the festival trailer after being provided a load plan by the Festival Manager
REQUIREMENTS:
- Have experience as a manager in a high pace environment
- Have experience operating machinery, or be willing to learn
- Be comfortable traveling 100 days or more during the year
- Be prepared and comfortable with working outside in all severe weather situations
- Be physically capable of working long hours 10 days consecutively
- Be willing to learn the processes set in place, while maintaining an analytical and problem solving mindset to improve these procedures
- Must be able to manage high volumes of people with an efficient approach to accomplishing mission critical task
