Employment

Maintenance Supervisor

American Players Theatre seeks a full-time, year-round Maintenance Supervisor to join our staff. Reporting to the Operations Manager, the Maintenance Supervisor directs and coordinates the activities of workers engaged in repair, maintenance, and installation of machines, tools, and equipment on the APT property. This position also manages the maintenance of buildings and utility systems of APT including the APT Apartments by performing the following duties personally or through APT staff. The Maintenance Supervisor manages a staff of 1-6 people throughout the year.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:  

1. Schedules and performs repair, maintenance and installation of machines, tools and equipment to ensure continuous production operations. This includes small engine equipment for grounds.
2. Schedules and performs repair and maintenance of all APT buildings including the plumbing, electrical, roofing, painting, safety and fire alarm system, battery replacement for smoke and fire detectors, light bulb replacement, etc.
3. Reviews all maintenance requests to determine work priorities including the tracking of all requests to ensure completion in a timely manner.
4. Directs and performs maintenance activities on utility systems to provide continuous supply of heat, electric power, gas or air conditioning required for operations.  This includes all HVAC systems, the changing of filters, scheduling of seasonal maintenance and coil cleaning.
5. Maintains all records as required for preventative, emergency and general maintenance requests.
6. Reviews house reports, performance reports, rehearsal reports for grounds and housekeeping related maintenance requests to determine work priorities including the tracking of all requests to ensure completion in a timely manner.
7. Hires, trains, supervises and schedules various maintenance staff including a full time Assistant Maintenance Supervisor.
8. Opens all buildings in preparation for the season and winterizes them at the conclusion of the season. 
9. Plans and executes all improvement requests for APT buildings.
10. Maintains all APT vehicles and all small engine equipment and regularly inspects them.
11. Maintain APT roads, paths and parking lots including repairs as a result of washouts, grading and grooming, snow plowing of all necessary roads and paths.  
12. Other duties as assigned.

Education and/or Experience:  Associates degree from a technical college, or university; or five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education or experience.

Computer Skills:  Ability to utilize Microsoft office products such as Excel, Word or Outlook.

Physical Demands:  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Compensation: This position is a year-round, full-time position requiring some weekend and evening hours. Salary is commensurate with experience. APT offers a benefit package that includes health and dental insurance and paid time off.

To apply, send cover letter, resume, and three references to Cari Stebbins, Operations Manager, at cstebbins@americanplayers.org

Land Manager

American Players Theatre is looking for a part time, seasonal Land Manager to join our Maintenance and Facilities team. Reporting to the Maintenance Supervisor, the Land Manager maintains and furthers APT’s ecological mission to restore prairie and savanna remnants, remove invasive species and reclaim wildlife habitat. The Land Manager strives to make the property welcoming and comfortable to patrons, artists, and other visitors.

Responsibilities include

1. Planning and executing all improvement requests by Maintenance Supervisor for APT grounds.
2. Attending and reporting at Facilities meetings 
3. Flora and Fauna:
   • Performing gardening, raking, weeding throughout APT grounds, including picnic areas, stage green spaces, retaining walls, etc. 
   • Removing downed trees in patron experience areas.
   • Watering trees and flowers as needed.
   • Scheduling and coordinating oak treatments and spring pruning.
   • Conducting annual garlic mustard pull.
   • Controlling invasive plants, poison ivy in Patron Experience areas. 
   • Reporting endangered species sightings to DNR.
4. Lawn Care:
   • Mowing and weed-whipping APT property and APT apartments on a weekly basis.
   • Seeding prairie and other areas as needed.
   • Performing maintenance of nature trails.
   • Seeding and manicuring APT grounds.
5. Financial Record Keeping: Completing all required purchase orders and obtaining appropriate authorization for financial transactions.  
6. Supervising volunteers for special projects.
7. Other duties as assigned.

Work Environment:  This position requires the employee to work outdoors 85% of the time and in varying weather conditions. Occasional evening and weekend hours are required.

Education and/or Experience: Prairie/forest management experience and native species knowledge preferred. Experience with Outlook and Microsoft Office preferred.

To apply, send cover letter and resume to Cari Stebbins, Operations Managers, at cstebbins@americanplayers.org

Facilities Assistants

American Players Theatre is looking for responsible, organized, and enthusiastic individuals to work with APT’s facilities staff. Facilities positions run April through October and require daytime and some weekend hours. Responsibilities to include cleaning, mowing , brush and tree work, event set up, delivery distribution and other tasks as advised. 20-30 hours per week. For more information, contact Cari Stebbins, Operations Manager, at cstebbins@americanplayers.org.

Assistant Box Office Manager 

American Players Theatre is seeking a friendly, detail-oriented person to join the APT team as the Assistant Box Office Manager. The Assistant Box Office Manager, along with the Manager, is involved in all aspects of box office operations, including: filling orders, training and managing staff, reporting, running shifts, and other duties. 

 The successful candidate will have excellent customer service skills and clear, effective and tactful oral and written communication skills; the discretion to handle sensitive information; strong computer and database management skill; the ability to effectively multi-task and the ability to thrive in a highly collaborative environment. Experience with ticketing software or other customer relations management software is preferred.  
Other specific responsibilities include:  

•  Working with the Box Office Manager to maintain the ticketing database  
• Managing hotel bookings with APT’s hotel/ticket package 
• Coordinating APT’s “Midsummer Music” program
• Scheduling and coordinating student matinee bookings, school workshops and other aspects of APT’s education and engagement programs
• Maintaining reciprocal agreements with colleague organizations
• Other related duties as assigned 

This is a salaried position with benefits. It requires extensive weekend and evening hours during the six-month performance season, June – November.  

 APT is a nationally recognized classical outdoor repertory theater on 110 acres near Spring Green, WI. The theater welcomes over 100,000 patrons annually to 190 performances in two venues (one outdoor and one indoor). 

For more information about APT, visit www.americanplayers.org.  Please send cover letter and resume to: Sharon Moshure, Box Office Manager, at sharon@americanplayers.org. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Seasonal Box Office Staff 

American Players Theatre is seeking seasonal staff to work in the Box Office, selling tickets and providing excellent customer service. Computer skills, customer service skills, and attention to detail are essential. Familiarity with American Players Theater and experience with call centers or database software a plus. This position averages 20 hours per week, July through October 8, 2017. Must be available evening and weekend hours. 

For questions or an application, contact Sharon Moshure, Box Office Manager at sharon@americanplayers.org.

All administrative positions are currently filled. 

We have completed our auditions for the 2017 season, please check back in the fall for 2018 consideration.

All production positions are currently filled for the 2017 season. Postings of available positions for the 2018 season will appear in the late fall, so please check back then.

Production Internships

APT does not have a production internship program. Due to the nature of our repertory season and the speed at which we work we are unable to support interns in the way they should be. If you are available for our entire season, which runs from early May to mid-October, you may be interested in our Production Assistant position in the future. All 2017 Production Assistant positions are currently filled.