Senior Operations Manager - Fabrication

Our Opportunity

GPJ is hiring a Senior Operations Manager, Fabrication to join our growing team.

This role is on-site, requiring you to report to our Las Vegas office location a minimum of 5 days per week.

Your Role

You are the Senior Operations Manager of Fabrication, responsible for overseeing the daily operations at the GPJ fabrication shop. In this role, you schedule and supervise both union and non-union shop staff for all assigned jobs. You administer staffing of the shop and forecast labor requirements based on project workload. You oversee various departments within fabrication, including milling, carpentry, metal fabrication, paint, electrical, and crating.

Your primary responsibility is to lead, staff, and train your team effectively. You determine the necessary working hours for the shop staff to complete the workload efficiently. You possess extensive knowledge of exhibit fabrication techniques and contribute to optimizing the shop layout and stock material needs, focusing on quantities, material posting, racking, and making the most of the limited space.

Your Skills

• Define and set expectations for production quality.  Flag any quality concerns to Fabrication leadership and Project Management immediately.  Quality Control is a major responsibility of this role.  Ensuring that GPJ fabrication quality is best in class and taking ownership of that as a delivery from our shop is a must. Success will be measured through client and end-user satisfaction.
• Attend project launch meetings and ensure staff required is also attending and advising of any risks and actions.  
• Communicate with project management, estimating, engineering, warehouse and graphics to determine and keep current best practices for communications between departments.  Review any areas of recurring problem with the management team for potential process updates and improvements.
• Communicate with purchasing to identify stock material requirements and reorder points.  Monitor materials needed for shop stock and ensure availability.
• Work with warehouse and project management to forecast appropriate completion dates to allow for packaging and shipment of all completed items
• Recruit and staff for all fabrication departments according to defined targets.  Develop ongoing relationships with trade schools, and talent outlets providing fabrication skill sets in demand at GPJ. 
• Develop a grading scale for Carpentry skills. Evaluate and identify skill level for each Carpenter.
• Responsible for developing apprentices and shop personnel to maintain future labor and production needs.
• Assign jobs appropriately to shop leads and labor as needed in conjunction with the shop foreman.

Your Competencies

Solution Oriented: Fabrication- Even with tight project budget management practices, you focus on the desired outcome and are ready with multiple solutions in order to reach the end goal.

Thoroughness: Fabrication- Ensure your work (and if applicable, the work of others) is complete and accurate. You can spot when details were overlooked, and take the initiative to complete the project, following up to ensure agreements / commitments are on track or have been fulfilled. When details are ambiguous, you ask questions to confirm you understand the expectations. Team members can easily follow your work, understand where you left off, and what comes next. You are prepared and organized for meetings and presentations.

Urgency- Decisive, responsive, and fast acting you achieve goals quickly both when working on your own and in collaboration with others. You demonstrate adaptability and agility when making on-the-spot decisions never sacrificing quality or work interactions. Cool under pressure. For the sake of time, you are able to eliminate unnecessary steps and use network resources to aid in project completion.

Foster Innovation- Drive, develop, or support new and improved methods, products, procedures or technologies. Devise new approaches to make improvements or solve problems. You constantly challenge yourself to come up with ideas that are on strategy, innovative, and transformative, and authentic to the client’s brand.

Your Experience

Experience & Education

• Minimum of 6-8 years of industry related fabrication experience including management level responsibilities.

Travel & Mobility

• Estimated travel for this position is less than 10%

Your Impact

In your role, you will have influence and responsibility over:

• Project Launch & Resource Management
• Fabrication & Graphics
• Management, Delivery & Deployment

Salary is dependent on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) experience, skills, and location.

Who We Are

GPJ is the world leader in experiential marketing. Our 29 global offices are filled with fearless people dreaming up ideas that are transforming industries and bringing the most respected brands to life in powerfully, exciting ways. We are a part of the Project Worldwide family. An independent, employee-owned global network of complementary, wholly owned agencies. 

You read that “employee-owned” part, right? You heard us correctly. You work hard, she works hard, we all work hard… we all succeed and reap the rewards. We have an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – providing our employees with an ownership interest. We thought you would want to know that. In fact, there is a lot more you would want to know about us, like our FTO policy (no more “accruing” time off), our employer matching 401(k) plan (no vesting period), our low employee contribution healthcare option. But we are getting ahead of ourselves here, let’s talk about this exciting opportunity first and we can fill you in on our perks & benefits later.

GPJ is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected class. In addition to federal law requirements, GPJ complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.  GPJ expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on any protected class.