Graphics Production Supervisor

George P. Johnson Company; Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

GPJ is hiring a Graphic Production Supervisor to join our growing team in Las Vegas, NV. This on-site role requires reporting to the Las Vegas office a minimum of 5 days per week and leading the graphics production staff project by project.

You will train and guide the team, set workloads, manage timelines, and work to minimize outsourcing while ensuring quality. Strong communication and organizational skills are essential in this position.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of industry related experience.
• Experience operating and maintaining large/grand format printing equipment.
• Clear communication skills in written and spoken form.
• Competency with graphic design software including Adobe Creative Suite.
• Color theory and management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and train the graphics production staff to meet workload demands.
• Determine working hours for the graphics production staff.
• Minimize outsourcing of graphics production work.
• Manage project timelines and update internal schedules.
• Oversee print and fabric finishing and act as SME in graphic production.
• Track department time and PTO, organize files, provide training.

Skills

Team leadership

Production supervision

Communication

Deadline-driven

Problem solving

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Large format printing equipment

Job description

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 team’s 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 maintenance. In 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.

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.

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 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.