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Event Design Apprentice:

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About Us: Exclusive Events, Inc. - an Event Design and Production Company is a custom design and fabrication shop that provides custom items, rentals, and lighting design for all social and corporate events for bespoke and grand room transformation. The Exclusive Events, Inc. team includes lighting designers, scenic carpenters, scenic paint artists, craft and fabric artisans, and event designers on a full-time basis. Exclusive Events, Inc.'s fabrication shop and warehouse are located in the suburbs of St. Louis, MO and services local and nationwide social and corporate clients’ with full or partial event design, fabrication, installation, and removal of event décor and lighting. Design Department: The Design Department is in search of an Event Design Apprentice willing to learn the skill of Event Design from the bottom up. This entry level design will participate in intensive and immersive training in event design and execution of event décor and lighting. The Event Design Apprentice will learn to meet and speak with the client, develop an event design, and quickly prepare a proposal using photos and pricing. Once the design goes to contract, the Event Design Apprentice will then be expected to communicate details of the event with the support team members for successful implementation. The Event Design Apprentice will often be required to be on event location for implementation and breakdown, especially for the events that they have created. The ideal candidate has proven creativity but also has business sense and able to put on a salesperson hat. Furthermore, the Event Design Apprentice is also, intuitive, friendly, well-spoken, confident but not arrogant, has attention to detail, a quick response time to inquiries, has reasonable physical strength, has a professional appearance, and excellent customer service. If you are a new graduate from college without a lengthy employment background, an individual new to the workforce, or someone who simply wants to learn a new career focused on creativity and fun this will be your first stepping stone to your event career. Benefits and Expectations: This is an entry level position and pay begins at 21.00 per hour, time and a half for all hours over 40 in a week is paid. Health and dental insurance are offered upon the start date. After one year of employment, a 401K retirement plan is available. *Incremental pay raises will be given periodically as training progresses, goals are met, and a proven ability to learn and perform is demonstrated. After the end of the apprenticeship a position as staff Event Designer will be achieved. *This is not only a desk job, candidate is expected to participate in manual labor for set up and teardown of events alongside team members to fully understand the nature of the business. *The willingness to drive or learn to drive company vehicles up to and including a box truck is required. * We are merely looking for a teachable, motivated, hardworking, self-sufficient, team player, and pleasant individuals to join our team. The Event Design Apprentice will have some form of demonstrated creative inclination, such as drawing, painting, acting, scrapbooking, crafting, etc. If you have technical theater skills, that would be a plus but not a deal-breaker. No college degree is required. Drug testing and background checks will be required. *The ideal applicant will be willing to grow with the position, have a flexible schedule, be adaptable to change, available to travel, and must have a positive, upbeat attitude. A great deal of time has been made to cultivate a positive and pleasant working team environment. If an applicant has a negative or unrealistic outlook, does not desire to be a team player, cannot adapt to a change in plan, or generally is unmotivated, this position is not the right fit.

Event & Operations Technician

About Us: Exclusive Events, Inc. is an Event Design and Production Company that fabricates set and furniture pieces for all social and corporate events. Exclusive Events, Inc. employs technicians familiar with theater lighting, carpenters, scenic artists, craft and fabric artisans, and event designers on a full-time basis. Exclusive Events, Inc.'s fabrication shop and warehouse are located in the suburbs of St. Louis, Mo while traveling nationwide for installation and removal of our designed events are occasionally expected. Department Hiring: Warehouse and Event Operations: This person will work within our Operations Department. This department is responsible for maintaining the warehouse full of props, bars, stages, walls, set pieces, fabric inventory, lighting, sound, video equipment, and rental furniture. The Operations Department works on location as well as in the studio to organize, prepare, set up and remove all events. Requirements: Applicant must hold a valid driver’s license. Applicant must have a criminal background and drug test before employment. * comfortable driving a box truck or a willingness to learn. Schedule: There is no typical day, as each day can bring a new event and a new approach. However, there are consistent requirements during the week. A typical Tuesday would involve unloading the trucks full of rental events from the weekend prior. Once unloaded, the items are checked for damage, cleaned, and returned to their proper warehouse location. Wednesday through Friday involves receiving a pull list from the event designers, pulling the inventory and items needed for each upcoming event, and then loading the trucks in preparation for the load. Saturday involves loading in all rental items (bars, furniture, stages, drape, etc.) and installing a lighting design. The venue can be a hotel ballroom, a banquet hall, an outdoor tent, or many other different on-site event locations. If all goes well, the event load-in is completed by 3 pm, and there is a break for the day. A return would be between 10:30 pm and midnight to unload and strike the event into the trucks. Every effort is taken to remove events the next day. Two days a week off is the norm. The year will present our high season and low season. The low season is January to April, where hours are generally Tuesday through Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm. The high season is May through December, where hours are usually Tuesday through Saturday from 8 am to 5-6 pm, and intense flexibility is needed for events that will happen mid-week or Sunday during this busy time of year. Ideal Candidate: We are merely looking for a teachable, motivated, hardworking, self-sufficient, team player, and a pleasant individual to join our team. If you have technical theater skills, that would be a plus but not a deal-breaker. No college degree is required. Reliable, consistent transportation is required. Hours will vary, therefore personal transportation is mandatory. Benefits: Pay begins at 21.00 with periodic pay increases based on merit. Time and a half for all hours over 40 in a week is paid. Room to advance. Paid time off (PTO). Health and dental insurance is offered upon the start date. Frequent company meals provided. After one year of employment, a 401K retirement plan is available. *The ideal applicant will be willing to grow with the position, have a flexible schedule, be adaptable to change, available to travel, and must have a positive, upbeat attitude. A great deal of time has been made to cultivate a positive and pleasant working team environment. If an applicant has a negative outlook, does not desire to be a team player, cannot adapt to a change in plan, or generally is unmotivated, this position is not the right fit. Drug and background testing is administered and required. FAQs: Relocation expenses not reimbursed; however, suggestions for housing is readily given.

Scenic Artist

About Us: Exclusive Events, Inc. is an Event Design and Production Company that fabricates set and furniture pieces for all social and corporate events. Exclusive Events, Inc. employs technicians familiar with theater lighting, carpenters, scenic artists, craft and fabric artisans, and event designers on a full-time basis. Exclusive Events, Inc.'s fabrication shop and warehouse are located in the suburbs of St. Louis, Mo while traveling nationwide for installation and removal of our designed events are occasionally expected. Department Hiring: Scenic Artist: Scenic Artists finish, paint, and produce scenery for event productions. Scenic Artists will work under the supervision of the Charge Artist to assist in mixing paint, creating samples, and executing scenic techniques and treatments. Job Responsibilities: • Touch up paint on previously built units and furniture that have had their surfaces scratched, stained or damaged. • Theatrical scenic painting: marbling, wood graining, stone work, brick work and adding texture, both painted and physical. • Fine detail painting such as painting monograms and lettering. • Understanding of scale, proportion and image lay out. • Color mixing paint to match samples using knowledge of color and color mixing. • We are using house paint, some Rosco, oil paint, stain, tints, specialty metallic, spray paint, solvents, other specialty and craft paints. • Maintaining strict quality control. Insuring even paint coverage, avoiding drips, matching the renderings as close as possible. Insuring the work reaches the highest aesthetic standard as time permits. • Helping to maintain the paint space, paint brushes, paint sprayers and all other paint equipment and tools. • Inform the Charge Artist of inventory levels. • Keeping the paint space organized and clean for maximum work space and to allow as many projects as possible to be worked on at the same time while allowing a safe path through the work area. • Preparing touch up kits to go on site to repair damage sustained in transit. • Always working with the Charge Artist to make sure that the projects are happening in a correct and timely fashion. • Having good communication with the Charge Artist, Designers, Carpentry Staff and Operations Staff. This is important for the look of projects and timing. Things move quickly here and keeping up with where projects are is important. • Assist in loading and unloading of equipment onto trucks, both at the shop and on site. • Setting up and taking down materials at an event and neatly packing them for their return to the shop. • An ability safely lift 50 or more pounds. • 2-3 years scenic painting experience preferred but not mandatory • Time flexibility • The ability to multitask • Self Motivated • Self Sufficient • Technical Theater degree with emphasis on scenic design and scenic painting preferred but NOT required. Requirements: Applicant must have a criminal background and drug test before employment. * comfortableness driving a box truck or a willingness to learn. Schedule: There is no typical day, as each day can bring a new event and a new approach. Tuesday you will receive your project assignments for the week and learn and grow with your scenic application. Painters also participate in technical set up and removal of events and provide paint support on event location. Saturday involves loading in all rental items (bars, furniture, stages, drape, etc.) and installing a lighting design. The venue can be a hotel ballroom, a banquet hall, an outdoor tent, or many other different on-site event locations. If all goes well, the event load-in is completed by 3 pm, and there is a break for the day. A return would be between 10:30 pm and midnight to unload and strike the event into the trucks. Every effort is taken to remove events the next day. Two days a week off is the norm. The year will present our high season and low season. The low season is January to April, where hours are generally Tuesday through Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm. The high season is May through December, where hours are usually Tuesday through Saturday from 8 am to 5-6 pm, and intense flexibility is needed for events that will happen mid-week or Sunday during this busy time of year. Ideal Candidate: We are merely looking for a teachable, motivated, hardworking, self-sufficient, team player, and a pleasant individual to join our team. If you have technical theater skills, that would be a plus but not a deal-breaker. No college degree is required. Reliable, consistent transportation is required. Hours will vary, therefore personal transportation is mandatory. Benefits: Pay begins at 21.00 with periodic pay increases based on merit. Time and a half for all hours over 40 in a week is paid. Room to advance. Paid time off (PTO). Health and dental insurance is offered upon the start date. Frequent company meals provided. After one year of employment, a 401K retirement plan is available. *The ideal applicant will be willing to grow with the position, have a flexible schedule, be adaptable to change, available to travel, and must have a positive, upbeat attitude. A great deal of time has been made to cultivate a positive and pleasant working team environment. If an applicant has a negative outlook, does not desire to be a team player, cannot adapt to a change in plan, or generally is unmotivated, this position is not the right fit. Drug and background testing is administered and required. FAQs: Relocation expenses not reimbursed; however, suggestions for housing is readily given.

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