GPJ - Sr. Manager, Fabrication

• 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 • 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. • Solution Oriented: Fabrication- • 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. • Thoroughness: Fabrication- • 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. • Urgency- • 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. • Foster Innovation- • Minimum of 6-8 years of industry related fabrication experience including management level responsibilities. • Travel & Mobility • 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.