Join Our Team at Elys Boulderloft
Elys Boulderloft is a premier bouldering gym located in Basel, Switzerland, operating 365 days a year. Our core product, route setting, significantly influences the quality, attractiveness, and athletic development of our facility. We are seeking an experienced and internationally oriented specialist to oversee the professional and organizational development of our route setting.
Key Responsibilities
- Overall responsibility for route setting in the bouldering gym
- Development and implementation of modern bouldering and route-setting concepts
- Ensuring a varied, safe, and high-quality bouldering offer for different target groups and performance levels
- Planning, coordination, and quality control of the route-setting team
- Training, guidance, and development of route setters and related staff
- Monitoring international trends in route setting, movement design, holds, volumes, and training environments
- Responsibility for the professional selection, purchasing, and use of climbing holds, volumes, and route-setting materials
- Budget planning and cost control within the route-setting department
- Collaboration with management, training, courses, and operations
- Ensuring high safety, quality, and cleanliness standards in all route-setting activities
- Willingness to work irregular hours, including outside regular opening hours
Requirements
- Several years of professional experience in route setting, ideally across various climbing or bouldering facilities and performance levels
- Proven high-level expertise in bouldering and professional route setting
- Active personal climbing or bouldering practice at a high level, allowing the candidate to test and evaluate demanding movements
- Experience in leading, coordinating, or developing route-setting teams
- Strong knowledge of international developments, trends, and standards in route setting
- Experience with budget planning, material planning, or purchasing of route-setting equipment is advantageous
- Good command of English; German is not required, but willingness to learn German is a plus
- High physical resilience and a strong focus on safety
- Independent, structured, and responsible working style
- Willingness to work in a 365-day operation with partly irregular working hours
We Offer
- A key specialist and leadership role in an established bouldering gym in Basel
- Responsibility for the core product of the company
- Opportunities to shape and further develop the route-setting concept
- Collaboration with a committed and motivated team
- A dynamic, sporty, and professional working environment
Apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered.