Warehouse Supervisor

GPJ is hiring a Warehouse Supervisor to join our growing team.

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

Your Role

As the Warehouse Supervisor, you are responsible for the day-to-day operation, organization, and performance of the GPJ facility warehouse. You will lead and supervise warehouse personnel, coordinate daily activities, plan staffing and labor requirements, and ensure the warehouse is prepared to support current and upcoming production and project demands.

Demonstrating strong warehouse operations and leadership skills, this role involves scheduling and assigning staff based on workload, project priorities, and operational requirements while delivering direction, coaching, training, and feedback to cultivate a culture of accountability, teamwork, safety, and continuous improvement.

Effective labor planning and workload forecasting are key, requiring the proactive identification of workload surges, capacity constraints, and resource-balancing opportunities to communicate staffing needs directly to the Warehouse Manager.

Additionally, serving as a subject-matter resource for storage, material handling, staging, and workflow allows for actionable recommendations that enhance operational efficiency, safety, quality, and service for both internal and external clients.

Your role also encompasses various other responsibilities, such as tracking departmental time and managing PTO requests, organizing and maintaining files, providing training, continually seeking opportunities for skill improvement, and handling any additional tasks assigned by Fabrication leadership.

Your Skills

• An ability to communicate clearly in a timely fashion verbally and through written text.
• Efficiently assigning warehouse tasks.
• Fostering clear communication between departments to establish best practices and address recurring issues.
• Ensuring accurate time tracking and budget adherence.
• General competency in Google docs, sheets and slides
• Exceptional organizational skills.
• Familiarity with Smartsheet or other Project Management/productivity software.
• Thriving in a deadline-driven, high-pressure environment.
• Ability to lift at least 50 lbs. without assistance.

Solution Oriented – 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 – 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.

Your Experience

Experience & Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or a minimum of (5) years of industry related experience.
• Significant experience or knowledge of the exhibit industry, specifically regarding warehouse setup, staffing and management.

Travel & Mobility

• Ability to travel 10%

Your Impact

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

• Providing guidance and training to the team.
• Attending project launch meetings.
• Organizing and tracking production items.
• Identifying workflow improvements.
• Setting and upholding production quality standards.
• Promoting GPJ inventory systems and safety.

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), and our low 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.