Posted 5 days ago
Bouldering Head Setter
@ Climbing Business Journal
Richmond, British Columbia
Overview
Approach Climbing, a bouldering gym at 12080 Bridgeport Road in Richmond, is hiring a full-time head setter to lead its setting program and the existing setting team. The role plans and runs the set rotation across eight sections and handles hold and equipment purchasing. Pay is $30 to $35 per hour depending on experience, for up to 18 regular hours a week.
Responsibilities:
- Plan and run set rotation across eight sections
- Lead set days and assign setters and forerunners
- Maintain safe setting practices and equipment
- Coach and develop setting crew and apprentices
- Keep boulder records current in KAYA
Requirements summary:
- Previous head setter experience, or management plus commercial setting
- Set and forerun boulders from beginner to hard grades
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Comfort at height with power tools, ladders and lifts
- First aid certification or willingness to obtain
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-08
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-14
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 18 |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · computer low |
| Licences & certifications | First aid certification |
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Approach Climbing is a bouldering gym at 12080 Bridgeport Road in Richmond, with about 3,000 square feet of walls in 8 sections. We are hiring a head setter to lead our setting program and the existing team behind it.
What You’ll Do
- Plan and run the set rotation across all eight sections, maintaining a bell curve of grades and range of styles on the wall at all times.
- Lead set days: assign setters, forerunners and hold-washing, make the setting plan, calls on grades and changes, and run the debrief.
- Maintain safe setting practices for the crew and for customers: close off and mark the areas being set, keep ladders, lifts and tools in good working order, and check that every boulder is safe to fall from.
- Coach and develop a small crew of setters, including apprentices, and help hire new ones.
- Keep the record of every boulder on the wall current, with its grade, section, setter and set date (we use KAYA today).
- Manage the hold, volume, and equipment collection, including ordering from suppliers. Propose and justify new equipment purchases.
- Gather and act on member feedback about the sets.
- Previous experience as a head setter, or management experience together with significant commercial setting experience.
- Range: you can set good boulders from beginner through hard grades, and forerun them honestly and consider feedback from your team.
- Strong organizational and communication skills.
- Comfort working at height and with power tools, ladders and lifts, and a commitment to safe setting practice.
- First aid certification, or willingness to get it.
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