CAD Designer bei George P. Johnson Experience Marketing

Our Opportunity

GPJ is looking for an CAD Designer to join our growing team!

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

Your Role

As a CAD Designer at GPJ, you're tasked with producing Detailed Models, Construction Drawings, Floorplans, Installation Documents, and various other deliverables using CAD applications such as Autodesk AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor. You work closely with Fabrication Project Managers, Structural Engineers, Creative teams, Client Account teams, and Fabrication Shop personnel to process scopes of work and design intent through iterative stages of development and feedback cycles. Your position serves as a crucial bridge between conceptual design and the final product, ensuring that what is fabricated meets the project’s requirements.

Your role is to provide service and quality outputs to project stakeholders and uphold the Engineering Department mission of delivering the best experience for customers with safety, stability, and sufficiency. You also play a key part in developing space plans that dictate how display elements will be arranged at different events. Collaborating closely with the team, you address any issues that arise to finalize the drawings for approval, often translating rough sketches from team members or structural engineers into detailed drawings. Additionally, you coordinate efforts with the CNC department to streamline drawing processes and minimize redundancy.

Your Skills

• Work from sketches and/or input from the various project team members.
• Strong skills in 2D and 3D AutoCAD.
• Ability to comprehend how things go together and to visualize in 3D.
• Work well with others since drawings require input and approval from various departments and shop personnel in order to complete the final approved drawings used for fabrication. Being a “team player” is a must.
• Produce expected drawings quickly, efficiently and as error-free as possible. Drawings should be thoroughly checked by the Engineer before submittal for any type of approval.
• Aggressively seek resolution from either the department head or other team members to prevent delays in the release of drawings.
• Creatively solve problems – displays often push the envelope and require solutions to problems which have no precedent.
• Calmly deal with numerous changes or “red-lines” to drawings

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.

Attention to Communication : Able to relate ideas to others in many forms (email,

phone, in person) and ensure that all who need to be informed are kept in the loop,

making sure no detail is left out. Provide ideas, options, and collaborate with the

cross-functional team members.

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.

Your Experience

Experience & Education

• A minimum of 5 years of recent full-time 2D and 3D modeling, in Autocad and/or Inventor, in a work environment similar to our business, such as Architectural experience or another exhibit house.
• Ability to work extended hours, possibly weekends and holidays, during peak periods which occur frequently throughout the year. Strong levels of perseverance are needed to push through the very tough work schedule. 
• A degree is not required for this position, but is always a plus. Architectural or Engineering degrees are the most relevant.

Your Impact

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

• Business Development 
• Project Launch & Resource Management 
• Strategy & Creative 
• Fabrication & Graphics 
• 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), 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.