Senior Head Setter — Las Vegas

About the role

We build spaces where people climb, belong, and grow. You know the feeling when someone unlocks a move you set and comes down grinning. Ready to have that kind of impact across a whole gym and take your skills and help a crew of setters find their best work? At The Pad, you’ll stay hands-on with the setting while hiring, coaching and leading the people who create it. You’ll make the calls on the setting floor, work within an established budget, and bring your ideas to our Director of Climbing. There are deadlines, equipment checks and hard conversations here, too. If making the crew better excites you as much as making the next great climb, we want to meet you. Reports to the Director of Climbing.

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead the setting calendar, from individual sets to the overall climbing mix.
• Complete, document and check the work against approved quality and safety standards before terrain is released.
• Hire and develop the setting crew within approved headcount and employment terms; train, schedule, coach and assess readiness.
• Handle formal warnings and termination decisions for the crew through the established HR process.
• Maintain the grade/style mix, rotation and terrain coverage; manage tools, holds, volumes, hardware and PPE within the setting budget.
• Coordinate closures, customer flow, staffing, facilities and incidents with Operations, including opening preparations when assigned.
• Develop local setting culture through feedback and clear decisions while following company technical standards and bringing useful improvements to the Director of Climbing.
• Make safety checks, maintenance, records and useful feedback part of daily delivery.
• Manage the established setting budget and plan work against available