Graphics Production Supervisor

Our Opportunity

GPJ is hiring a Graphic Production Supervisor to join our growing team.

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

Your Role

In the Graphic Production Supervisor role you have various responsibilities related to leading instructing and reporting on the staff responsible for physically constructing graphic items project by project. Your primary responsibility is to lead and train your team effectively. You determine the necessary working hours for the graphics production staff to meet the workload demands. Additionally you aim to minimize the outsourcing of graphics production work while training and improving your teams understanding and capabilities.

Another aspect of your role is managing job timelines and deadlines. This involves working to have up-to-date status of active projects and maintain clear communication with all relevant stakeholders both upstream and downstream regarding department workload. To facilitate this you manage maintain and update an internal schedules that can be easily shared with other production personnel.

You serve as print and fabric finishing oversight along with being a subject matter expert in graphic production including equipment operation and addition to these core responsibilities you handle department time tracking and PTO management organize and store files provide training engage in continual learning and research to enhance your skills and tackle any additional tasks assigned by the Graphics Production Manager.

Your Skills

• Communicate and work well with others to promote an efficient timely and production working environment.
• Ability to oversee and assist in the production of graphics through the graphics production team.
• Able to constructively review workflow and production issues with Operations management for potential process updates and improvements.
• Understand graphic production methodology terminology and effect.
• Organize track and document all production items to assure entire production workload for the department has been finished completely.
• Identify areas or methods that could be improved in the graphic production workflow.
• Be willing to hold impromptu meeting with your team to address issues.
• Define and set expectations for production quality as necessary.
• Work well in a deadline-driven and frequently stressful environment.
• Develops and communicates creative solutions that will help achieve desired results.
• Organizes tracks and documents all production items to assure entire production workload for the department has been finished completely.
• Identify areas or methods that could be improved in the graphic production workflow.
• Can manage regular department meetings within graphic production to keep the team current on project workload overall.
• Ability to define and set expectations for production quality as necessary.
• Works well in a deadline-driven and frequently stressful environment.

Your Competencies

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 clients brand.

Forward Thinking: Anticipate the implications and consequences of situations and take appropriate actions in order to prepare for possible contingencies.

Prioritization/Organization: Graphic Production: Properly allocate time and resources so that jobs are completed within a defined timeframe; within budget and managing all resources (Full-time and freelance) as effectively as possible. Establishing a reasonable timeline for completion when no concrete date is given.

Your Experience

• Minimum of 3 years of industry related experience.
• Experience operating and maintaining large/grand format printing equipment.
• An ability to clearly communicate in a timely fashion both verbally and through written text.
• Competency in graphic design software including Adobe Creative Suite or similar related graphic editors.
• Color theory and management experience.

Travel Schedule & Mobility

Ability to work irregular hours in addition to normal business hours to include nights weekends and holidays as needed.

Ability to travel up to 5%

Your Impact

• Your role will directly affect the efficiency speed and output quality of the graphic production team. Through your direction supervision and education; you will help to improve the understanding of graphic production which will directly affect client satisfaction but also the experience of other teams and individuals connected to the work including Pre-Press Specialists Graphic Project Managers Graphic Producers Graphic Support logistics and many others.
• Your efforts and decisions will also directly affect the bottom line of graphic production on the whole. By improving the speed efficiency productivity and error rates of the print production or fabric finishing groups you will directly affect the profitability of the department.

Salary:

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 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 lets 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 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.

Required Experience:

Manager