About Our Job

With competitive pay, great benefits, and endless opportunities, working for the City and County of Denver means seeing yourself working with purpose — for you, and those who benefit from your passion, skills and expertise. Join our diverse, inclusive and talented workforce of more than 11,000 team members who are at the heart of what makes Denver, Denver.

What We Offer

The City and County of Denver offers competitive pay commensurate with education and experience.  New hires are typically brought into the organization between $20.06 and $25.08 

We also offer generous benefits for full-time employees which include but are not limited to:

• A guaranteed life-long monthly pension, once vested after 5 years of service

• 457B Retirement Plan

• 140 hours of PTO earned within first year + 12 paid holidays, 1 personal holiday, 1 Wellness Day and 1 volunteer day per year

• Competitive medical, dental and vision plans effective within 1 month of start date

Location & Schedule

In this position you can expect to work on site at the Arts Complex located at 1345 Champa Street. After hours and weekend work may be required for special events as well as snow removal.

What You’ll Do 

Denver Arts & Venues aims to amplify Denver’s quality of life and economic vitality through our premier public venues, public art collection, and free entertainment events and programs. We exist to make Denver the greatest city in the country to live in and visit. And why shouldn’t it be? With our mild sunny weather, parks and trails, arts and culture scene, growing culinary community, a healthy and youthful attitude, all set to a Rocky Mountain backdrop, Denver is the place to call home.

Denver Arts and Venues is deeply committed to an equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) practice that closes access gaps in arts and culture with urgency and accountability. We believe long term impact requires changing traditional processes, creating new systems, and developing authentic relationships to transformative work. Our works stands at the intersection of arts, culture and community.

About Denver Arts & Venues

Denver Arts & Venues is an agency of the City and County of Denver that operates a special revenue fund by generating revenue through operation of event and entertainment venues and then invests that revenue in venue improvements and maintenance, arts programs, community grants, and cultural amenities for Denver’s residents.

Venues in Denver Arts & Venues portfolio include the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the country’s largest performing arts center under one roof, the Denver Performing Arts Complex, historic Denver Coliseum, recently refurbished McNichols Civic Center Building, and the state-of-the art Colorado Convention Center. Through the division of Cultural Affairs, Arts & Venues administers the City’s 1% for public art program and reinvests a portion of its surplus revenue into cultural and arts programs such as the Five Points Jazz Festival, Urban Arts Fund, Safe Creative Spaces Fund, PS You Are Here and McNichols Cultural Partner programs.

Diversity in the City

Denver Arts & Venues is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in all our programs, initiatives and decision-making processes. To address historic inequities and systemic racism, the City’s Equity Platform is focused on BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) and other historically marginalized communities, including people with disabilities and LGBTQ+. Ensuring meaningful representation from historically untapped and under resourced communities is essential to these practices.

Denver Arts & Venues is seeking a Utility Worker I to perform a variety of unskilled work and light to heavy physical labor in support of various construction, maintenance, repair, and operational functions.

Additionally, the Utility Worker I:

• Performs unskilled, light to heavy physical labor on a variety of construction, maintenance, and repair projects that involves physical exertion and the use of manual tools and limited use of small power operated tools

• Operates light weight equipment powered by small engines used for maintenance, cleaning, and minor construction projects

• Lifts and empties heavy solid waste containers into disposal trucks, operates hydraulic compaction unit on city trash collection vehicles, and washes trucks as needed

• Performs event set up and strike down including transporting chairs, tables, and other items

• Assembles, moves, removes, and relocates furniture, furnishings, and equipment and repairs and stores articles of furniture

• Has the ability to perform landscaping/groundskeeper  activities. Including Snow removal

Our ideal candidate will:

• Be open to working a variety of conditions that may lead to getting dirty

• Keep safety as a priority in all work 

• Be able to work as a team, and also independently 

We realize your time is valuable so please do not apply if you do not have at least the following required minimum qualifications:

• Education requirement: None

• Experience Requirement:  None

• Education/Experience Equivalency: None

• License/Certifications: None

Application Deadline

This position is expected to stay open until Thursday, July 9th, 2026. Please submit your application as soon as possible and no later than July 9th at 11:59 PM to ensure consideration.

About Everything Else

Job Profile

CJ2083 Utility Worker I

To view the full job profile including position specifications, physical demands, and probationary period, click here.

Position Type

Unlimited

Position Salary Range

$20.06 - $30.10

Target Pay

Target Pay New hires are typically brought into the organization between $20.06 and $25.08

Agency

Arts & Venues Denver

The City and County of Denver provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, age, or any other status protected under federal, state, and/or local law. 

It is your right to access oral or written language assistance, sign language interpretation, real-time captioning via CART, or disability-related accommodations. To request any of these services at no cost to you, please contact [email protected] with three business days’ notice.

Applicants for employment with the City and County of Denver must have valid work authorization that does not require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S.

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