Sr. Fabrication Project Manager

Our Opportunity

GPJ is hiring a Senior Fabrication Project Manager to join our growing team.

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

Your Role

As the Senior Project Manager for Fabrication, your primary responsibility is to oversee and coordinate all activities related to our projects, ensuring the delivery of top-quality work while maximizing profit margins. Whether focusing solely on fabrication or overseeing all aspects of a project, you handle a range of additional responsibilities. This includes analyzing materials to ensure correct usage and timely delivery, collaborating with Project Managers and Estimators to establish budgets and timelines, driving projects forward and maintaining adherence to set timelines, and providing ongoing support for estimating projects. You also organize crucial project meetings to ensure alignment, work closely with shop management to determine crew size requirements, and collaborate with foremen to address specific project needs. Furthermore, you generate and submit weekly timesheets and occasionally travel to supervise operations at major shows. Additionally, you may assist with building maintenance to uphold the quality of our facilities.

Your Skills

• Knowledge of building and construction standards and terminology.

• Ability to read/understand engineering drawings and knowledge CAD/CAM manufacturing and fabrication.

• Understanding of Project Management methodology.

• Familiarity with interior and exterior building materials and fabrication techniques.

• Drive, Determination and Persistence in guiding numerous shop personnel on multiple projects simultaneously.

• Computer Skills; Fluent in Google Docs and Sheets (Word and Excel).

• Exceptional Time Management Skills

Your Competencies

Solution Oriented - 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.

Thoroughness - 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.

Versatile - Action oriented and approach work with a “can do” attitude. Willing to understand client contracts, procurement requirements and supplier code of conduct, scope and work with the client, in relation to housing and interacting with the various properties, and when necessary adapt to any given client.

Your Experience

Experience & Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Construction Management or a minimum of seven 7 years experience in construction or construction related fields.

Travel & Mobility

• Ability to travel 25%

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

Your Impact

In your role, you will have influence and responsibility over:

• Fabrication & Graphics

• Project Management

• Engineering

• Estimating

• Management, Delivery & Deployment

• Change Order Management

• Invoicing, Financial Reconciliation & Closing

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), and 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.