Print Production Supervisor - George P. Johnson Experience Marketing

Our Opportunity

GPJ is looking for a Print Production Supervisor to join our team at our Smyrna, TN facility.

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

Your Role

As the Print Production Supervisor, your role encompasses various responsibilities related to the staff responsible for physically producing graphic items. Your primary responsibility is to lead, train your team effectively and determine the necessary working hours for the print production staff to meet the workload demands. Additionally, you aim to minimize the outsourcing of graphics production work while ensuring a balance between GPJ's profitability and our employees' capabilities.

Another key aspect of your role is fulfilling job timelines and deadlines. This involves identifying potential challenges in upcoming production tasks, finding creative solutions for unique requests, ensuring the availability of standard materials, and setting achievable goals for your team. You maintain clear communication with all relevant stakeholders, both upstream and downstream, regarding department workload and any necessary changes. 

This role serves as a subject matter expert in graphic production, providing construction and print suggestions to meet our clients' expectations effectively. In addition,, you will handle department time tracking and PTO management, provide training, engage in continual learning and research to enhance your skills, and tackle any additional tasks assigned by the Graphics Production Manager.

Your Skills

• Effective communication, both written and verbal.
• Troubleshooting of Printing and Finishing equipment with a generally high mechanical aptitude.
• Computer skills including Spreadsheets and video conferencing with ability to work in Mac and Windows environments.
• Full understanding of RIP softwares, ICC profile generation, color discernment, graphic production methodology, terminology, and effect. 
• Develop creative solutions that will help achieve desired results. 
• Organize, track, and document all production items to assure the entire production workload for the department has been finished completely.
• Identify areas or methods that could be improved in the print production workflow.
• Manage regular department meetings within print production to keep the team current on project workload overall.
• Maintain equipment to ensure production quality as necessary.
• Work well in a deadline-driven and frequently stressful environment.

Your Competencies

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.

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.

Forward Thinking – Anticipate the implications and consequences of situations and take appropriate actions in order to prepare for possible contingencies.

Prioritization/Organization – 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.

Your Impact

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

• Resource Management
• Fabrication & Graphics

Your Experience

Experience & Education

• A minimum of 5 years of Graphics Production related experience.
• An ability to communicate clearly in a timely fashion verbally and through written text.
• High competency in graphic design software, mainly Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Color theory and management experience. 

Travel & Mobility

• Ability to travel 5%
• Ability to work irregular hours in addition to normal business hours, to include nights, weekends and holidays as needed

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 "no employee contribution" healthcare option. But we are getting ahead of ourselves here, let's talk about this 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.