Our Opportunity
GPJ is hiring a CAD Administrator/designer to support the Live Production team!
This role is hybrid, requiring you to report on-site to one of the following office locations a minimum of 2 days/week: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Austin, Nashville, Detroit, Boston, or New York City.
Your Role
In this role, you will leverage advanced Vectorworks and Spotlight skills, along with your background in theatrical, set, and scenic design, to create detailed floor plans and elevations for a wide range of live event projects. Whether designing conference keynote stages, large-scale public festivals, ceremonies, auto shows, or broadcast and industry events, you will bring each vision to life with precision and creativity. Additionally, you will manage the integration of technical elements (A/V/L & Rigging) into collaborative plans, working closely with GPJ Fabrication, Engineering, and the technical vendors assigned to each project. This is a theatrical live production role.
Your Skills
- Your Vectorworks Spotlight skills are at the expert level.
- You can draw in 2D/3D (Front, Elevations, Sections and Isometric views)
- Create and edit Titleblocks; use and create Records and Worksheets; create 3D models; use Classes and Layers; import-export DWG’s; use Rendering tools for Visualization; create Texture; and more.
- Cinema 4D and/or Light Converse knowledge is a plus.
- You are comfortable with the fast pace and tight deadlines that drive this industry and can cope with the stress and pressure that sometimes ensue.
- You are able to work at lightning speed to meet strict turn-around times and could be working on multiple curated projects.
- You are adept at establishing efficient workflow protocols and can easily adapt to new processes.
- You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and are able to effectively communicate with stakeholders to share and collect information required to complete accurate work.
Your Competencies
Deliver -Produce with excellence, in all your areas you touch directly or indirectly, for the client, the project you are assigned, and the GPJ team.
Confidence -Know that you will succeed, when at times what is being suggested may not have been produced before. Have confidence that you have the team, data, tools and skills necessary to overcome obstacles. Working in close concert with strategy, creative, other production teams, and client teams to communicate all stages of the production process and get everyone to the end goal.
Communication – Technical or Production Team leader adept at identification, hiring and mentoring of skills and resources required to build teams that deliver robust solutions within a controlled project management environment. Strong communication skills with each member of the team (GPJ, Client and Partners) in sharing information, advising but being decisive as required to ensure success. Strong advocate for safe environment for attendees and staff ensuring each project has all required certifications and documentation.
Curiosity – Desire to discover, explore, learn and expand knowledge of digital, technical, theatrical and media elements to bring brands to life in the most effective way. Live production is one of the most powerful forms of communication in experience marketing and your role is to partner with the strategy, creative and account teams in bringing the best ideas forward and put the strategy into action.
Your Experience
Experience & Education
5+ years of previous industry experience in CAD drafting
Travel & Mobility
Ability to travel 10%
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:
Live Production process
CAD deliverables
Salary Range: $120k – $135k
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 “no 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.
POTENTIAL SCAM ALERT
We have recently become aware that individuals not associated with George P. Johnson, or its parent company, Project Worldwide, Inc., have fraudulently used our name – and the names of some of our employees – to solicit applications for fake jobs, to conduct fake job interviews and to make fake job offers.
Any request to schedule an interview and any offer of employment will only come from an authorized representative of George P. Johnson with an email address “@gpj.com”.
We will never require an applicant to provide credit card or banking information to cover any supposed advance costs.
If you have provided personal information in connection with a fake job offer or interview and you are concerned, we suggest that you contact local law enforcement authorities. We take these activities very seriously, and are working with law enforcement to shut down this fraudulent activity.
