Graphics Production Supervisor

George P. Johnson Experience Marketing•Las Vegas, NV

2d•Onsite

About The Position

GPJ is hiring a Graphic Production Manager 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. As the Manager of Graphics Production, your role encompasses a wide range of responsibilities focused on leading, educating, and guiding the team responsible for constructing graphic items on a project-by-project basis. Your first priority is to oversee the staffing, training, and scheduling of our graphics production staff, ensuring they have the resources and support needed to meet project demands efficiently. You also manage the balance between in-house production and outsourcing, ensuring profitability while encouraging growth and leveraging our team's capabilities. Another critical aspect of your role is to manage job timelines and deadlines in print and fabric production. This involves anticipating potential challenges, devising creative solutions for unique requests, and ensuring the availability of standard materials. Effective communication with stakeholders throughout the production process is essential, and you maintain a comprehensive workload schedule to facilitate seamless coordination. Additionally, you provide expertise in graphic production, offering guidance and recommendations to ensure our deliverables exceed client expectations. You will oversee departmental time tracking, manage PTO, maintain file organization, and facilitate ongoing training and skill development initiatives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Graphics Production related field or a minimum of 5 years of industry related experience.
Experience with print production technology and equipment.
An ability to communicate clearly and in a timely fashion, including verbally and through written text.
High competency in graphic design software, including or similar to Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
Color theory and management experience.
Ability to work irregular hours in addition to normal business hours, to include nights, weekends and holidays as needed.
Ability to travel up to 15%

Nice To Haves

Understands graphic production methodology, terminology, and effect.
Develops and communicates creative solutions that will help achieve desired results.
Works well in a deadline-driven and frequently stressful environment.
Decisive, responsive, and fast acting you achieve goals quickly both when working on your own and in collaboration with others.
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.
Drive, develop, or support new and improved methods, products, procedures or technologies.
Devise new approaches to make improvements or solve problems.
Constantly challenge yourself to come up with ideas that are on strategy, innovative, and transformative, and authentic to the client’s brand.
Anticipate the implications and consequences of situations and take appropriate actions in order to prepare for possible contingencies.
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.

Responsibilities

Manage the production and manufacturing of all finished graphics through the graphics production team.
Provide guidance, direction and continuing education to the graphics team as needed with regards to best production practices.
Develop and manage Graphic Production Supervisors and leads as needed.
Educate project management and engineering management on fabrication methods specific to graphic treatments for GPJ.
Evaluate graphic production to forecast appropriate completion date to allow for packaging and shipment of all completed items.
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.
Manage regular department meetings within graphic production to keep the team current on project workload overall.
Define and set expectations for production quality as necessary.