Our Opportunity
GPJ is hiring a Sr Warehouse Manager to join our growing team.
This role is on-site, requiring you to report to our Las Vegas office location a minimum of 5 days per week.
Your Role
As the Senior Warehouse Manager, your role revolves around the day-to-day operation of our GPJ facility warehouse. You are the one responsible for scheduling and overseeing our warehouse staff in all their assigned tasks. You will handle staffing decisions for the warehouse and forecast our labor needs based on project workloads.
Your duties involve leading, staffing, and training your team. You will set the necessary working hours for our warehouse staff to meet the workload demands. Additionally, you are in charge of managing the warehouse layout and storage requirements, optimizing our limited space with efficient racking solutions and stacking of crates.
You will take on the crucial responsibility of managing job timelines and deadlines. This means identifying potential challenges in upcoming production tasks, ensuring we have the right materials on hand, and setting realistic goals for your team. You will also maintain clear communication with all relevant stakeholders, both upstream and downstream, regarding our department's workload and any necessary changes. To facilitate this, you will manage, maintain, and update an internal workload schedule that can be easily shared with other members of our production team.
Furthermore, you will serve as an expert in warehousing, offering suggestions and expertise to ensure we meet our client's expectations.
Your role also encompasses various other responsibilities, such as tracking departmental time and managing PTO requests, organizing and maintaining files, providing training, continually seeking opportunities for skill improvement, and handling any additional tasks assigned by Fabrication Leadership.
Your Skills
- An ability to communicate clearly in a timely fashion verbally and through written text.
- Efficiently assigning warehouse tasks.
- Fostering clear communication between departments to establish best practices and address recurring issues.
- Collaborating with purchasing for stock management.
- Ensuring accurate time tracking and budget adherence.
- General competency in Google docs, sheets and slides
- Exceptional organizational skills.
- Familiarity with Smartsheet or other Project Management/productivity software.
- Thriving in a deadline-driven, high-pressure environment.
- Ability to lift at least 50 lbs. without assistance.
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.
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.
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.
Your Experience
Experience & Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field or a minimum of (10) years of industry related experience.
- Significant experience or knowledge of the exhibit industry, specifically regarding warehouse setup, staffing and management.
Travel & Mobility
Your Impact
In your role, you will have influence and responsibility over:
- Providing guidance and training to the team.
- Coordinating project timelines.
- Attending project launch meetings.
- Organizing and tracking production items.
- Identifying workflow improvements.
- Conducting regular department meetings.
- Setting and upholding production quality standards.
- Promoting GPJ inventory systems and safety.
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.
