Install Supervisor

Turner Exhibits, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Health and dental plans

SIMPLE IRA match

Bonus program

Continuing education support

Job summary

Turner Exhibits, Inc. is seeking an Installation Supervisor/Installer to join a hybrid role managing both shop and on-site activities in the Seattle area.

You will lead installation planning, coordinate with designers and subcontractors, and ensure safety compliance and timely delivery of exhibits. Ideal candidates bring strong leadership, planning, and communication skills, with experience coordinating budgets, equipment, and crews on diverse projects.

Qualifications

• Appropriate industry knowledge relevant to architecture, general contracting, and exhibits.
• Planning skills to anticipate needs and resources.
• Strong organizational and communication skills for multi-tasking and clear delegation.
• Strong leadership to guide diverse on-site teams and subcontractors.
• Sound decision-making to assess conditions and act decisively.
• Calm, controlled demeanor to de-escalate issues under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Attend internal team meetings to outline, define, and plan installation approaches.
• Develop installation schedules and allocate resources, sequence work, and set milestones.
• Create installation estimates and define methods and timelines with clients.
• Coordinate bids from installation subcontractors and prepare Site Safety Plans.
• Attend client meetings and conduct on-site surveys and pre-install planning.
• Manage installation purchasing, travel, lodging, per diem, and equipment rental.
• Lead installation planning meetings and document methods during setup and testing.
• Represent TE on-site to clients and contractors; communicate Site Safety Plan to crew.
• Direct TE installers or client-supplied labor; monitor schedule, scope, and budget.

Skills

Industry knowledge

Planning

Organization

Communication

Leadership

Decision making

Calm under pressure

Job description

Description

Turner Exhibits is a custom design and fabrication firm, led by ideas and a culture of collaboration. The diverse perspectives of your future colleagues and clients will inspire and challenge you to be extraordinary. Innovation and creativity are at the heart of our work: creating experiences that better connect people to their imagination. We partner with pioneers of technology and a selection of discerning homeowners to create solutions for tomorrow. Are you interested in bringing transformational projects into reality? Join us.

Your role at a glance

This position is a hybrid position that is composed of two distinct roles:

Each aspect of this position will have distinct functional responsibilities, required skills, and measures of success.

Functional responsibilities

• Attend internal team meetings to outline, define, & plan installation approaches.
• Drawing on input from designers and lead fabricators, develop installation schedules that define Turner Exhibits and General Contractor resources (people and equipment), sequence of work, and milestones.
• Create estimates for installation. Collaborate with clients to define installation methods and time requirements.
• Develop information for and collect bids from installation subcontractors.
• Prepare Site Safety Plans for each site mobilization.
• Attend client meetings.
• Carry out site surveys and pre-installation planning meetings with clients.
• Research local resources (equipment and material suppliers, sub-contractors).
• Manage all installation-related purchasing, including team travel, lodging, per diem, site consumables, and equipment rental.
• Schedule and lead installation planning meetings.
• Document installation methods during shop setup and testing.
• Plan and manage packing. Review shipping manifests.
• In the shop, contribute to project setup and testing in order to fully test exhibits and kinetic architecture systems.
• Document shop mockups by red-lining plans, taking photos and video, and saving these to appropriate network files.
• While on site, represent TE to clients and contractors.
• Communicate Site Safety Plan to all install participants.
• Work as an installation supervisor and/or installer. Direct the work of other TE installers, or the work of labor supplied by the client.
• Monitor, control, and communicate changes to schedule, scope, and budget, should any occur. Communicate updates to the project manager, account partner, and as needed, the client.
• Track actual hours and activities of team. Document departures from plan or schedule for customer communication.
• Monitor and control installation schedule, scope, and costs.
• Monitor and control quality.
• Contribute to project closeout process. Participate in a project closeout meeting: collect information about what went right and wrong and define ideas for change and improvement.
• Identify ways to improve team performance and customer satisfaction.

What you will need to succeed

• Appropriate industry knowledge relevant to industry served (architecture, general contracting, exhibits).
• Planning skills. Able to anticipate project needs, resource needs, and problems.
• Strong organizational and communication skills. Able to manage and prioritize multiple tasks, to delegate tasks and responsibilities clearly and effectively, and to prepare documents for internal and external recipients.
• Strong leadership skills. Able to communicate with and lead diverse teams on site composed of both familiar and unfamiliar people, subcontractors, and situations.
• Strong decision-making skills. Able to assess conditions and situations on site and make clear and timely decisions. Able to act.
• Calm, controlled demeanor. Able to de‑escalate issues/solve problems under pressure.

Additional requirements

• Willingness to travel for site surveys and installs
• Valid WA state driver’s license and automobile liability insurance
• Valid enhanced driver’s license or valid passport
• Ability to work in Canada (no felony arrest history)
• Ability to safely lift 50 pounds
• Willingness to attend OSHA certification training
• Willingness to participate in customer-required drug testing
• Willingness to be certified in First Aid Training
• Willingness to be certified in heavy equipment operation
• Travel and on-site purchasing within constraints of established budget.
• Control of site safety.
• Day-to-day scheduling authority with crew on site.
• Quality assurance decisions.

Measures of Success

• Site safety record.
• Customer satisfaction regarding quality of process: planning, communication, behavior on site, and follow-through.
• Customer satisfaction regarding quality of finished product.
• Estimate accuracy for estimating installation costs and activities.
• Positive team feedback regarding quality of leadership: ability to collaborate, decision-making and ability to anticipate and remove installation roadblocks.
• Positive team feedback regarding appropriate and timely level of detail in installation estimates, schedules, site requirements documents, site safety plans, and other installation-related planning documentation.

Classification and reporting structure

• Within project teams, the planning, vendor communication, and customer communication work produced by this position will be reviewed by the project manager.
• This position is an hourly position and subject to overtime pay.
• This position reports to the President, who manages the work of TE’s Project Managers and Site Supervisors.

In addition to a dynamic and creative culture, Turner Exhibits provides a generous benefits package that includes paid time off, (10) paid holidays, employer-supported health and dental plans, SIMPLE IRA match, a company-wide bonus program, and selected support for continuing education. Turner Exhibits is committed to total compensation practices that are fair, competitive, and reflect internal pay equity.

At the time of posting this job, the hourly rate ranges for the Installation Supervisor position are:

• In-shop and remote office work - $30-$38/hr.
• Travel and on-site work - $40-$50/hr.

Total compensation offers are based on experience, education, and internal pay equity between employees with like-type roles and responsibility.