Events Coordinator

Location: 1650 Argyle St, Halifax, NS B3J 0E6, Canada

Company

hirify.global is a publicly listed North American company that creates and manages built environments and provides facility and event services.

What you will do

• Review event schedules, floor plans, attendance projections, room sets, timelines, and operational requirements.
• Coordinate staffing, labour resources, supplemental teams, and deployment plans for events, peak periods, rapid turnovers, and concurrent activities.
• Work with venue operations, event organizers, supervisors, security, food services, maintenance, and third-party providers.
• Conduct pre-event inspections and monitor cleanliness, safety, staffing, and service quality throughout events.
• Track service requests, labour utilization, operational issues, client billables, KPIs, audits, and incident reports.
• Prepare post-event reports and recommendations, escalate service concerns, and support compliance with venue, client, company, and health and safety requirements.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in event operations, venue services, hospitality, facilities management, commercial cleaning, or a similar environment.
• Experience coordinating teams, schedules, resources, or operations in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong organizational, time-management, communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and scheduling or operational reporting systems.
• Strong attention to detail and a customer-service mindset.
• Ability to work evenings, weekends, overnight shifts, and holidays according to event schedules.

Nice to have

• Diploma or degree in Event Management, Hospitality, Business Administration, Facilities Management, or a related discipline.
• Experience in a convention centre, arena, stadium, hospitality setting, or other large-scale public assembly environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a growing, financially strong, publicly listed company.
• Supplemental medical and dental benefits are fully covered.
• Employee Referral Program.
• Workplace culture emphasizing stability, diversity and inclusion, camaraderie, recognition, and work-life balance.
• Support for environmentally responsible practices, including waste diversion and safe chemical handling.