Our Opportunity

GPJ is hiring an Estimating Manager to join our growing team. This role is on-site, requiring you to report to one of the following office locations a minimum of 5 days per week: Las Vegas, Nashville, or Detroit.

Your Role

You are the Estimating Manager, and you play a crucial role in overseeing and coordinating all of our estimating personnel and activities. Your main focus is on ensuring accuracy and top-notch quality while maximizing our margins in various areas, such as fabrication, refurbishment, graphics, and special projects.

You will lead by setting an example for the team, and you will bring with you a strong background in fabrication. You are skilled at interpreting conceptual designs and bidding information, no matter how it's presented.

Depending on the project, your responsibilities might be centered around fabrication exclusively, or you could be in charge of overseeing all aspects of a particular project. It's all about delivering the best results and maintaining high standards throughout the estimation process.

Your Skills

• Participate in all aspects of fabrication estimating/bid preparations and personnel on a wide variety of industrial trade show, automotive, international, activations, permanent installations, and special event projects
• Monitor, review, and adjust workloads between estimating departmental personnel
• Enforce comprehensive estimating standards and policies
• Engage extensively with international suppliers and contractors to provide global solutions, sourcing and pricing advantages
• Provide early collaboration with Account Management and Creative on projects
• Interface regularly with Integrated Production and Account Management to promote smooth estimating process
• Interface regularly with Design personnel and Design Management to open dialog and a proper flow of information between the two groups
• Review and sign-off on estimates and scopes for fabrication projects
• Write and conduct yearly performance reviews
• Provide leadership, direction, and guidance to less experienced individuals regardless of department
• Print, review and distribute a weekly report of all fabrication project and their current financial status. Alert Senior Management of potential hot projects
• Request and provide project projections, and ongoing financial analysis of project to Management
• Work closely with Management on Staffing issues
• Work as a day to day Estimating Manager with full account and financial responsibilities

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.
• 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 Business or Construction Management, or equivalent experience with a minimum of 8 years of industry experience.

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

Travel & Mobility

10% travel required

Your Impact

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

• Project Launch & Resource Management
• Fabrication & Graphics
• Estimating

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.