Fabrication Project Manager

GPJ is hiring a Fabrication Project Manager to join our growing team.

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

As the Project Manager for Fabrication, your role revolves around overseeing and coordinating all project-specific activities to ensure we deliver top‑notch quality while maximizing our profit margins. Depending on the project, your focus may be primarily on the fabrication aspects or encompass all aspects of the project. In addition to these core responsibilities, here are some other key tasks you handle:

• You thoroughly analyze and review materials to ensure they are applied correctly and meet the required lead times to comply with project timelines. You expedite sample materials, mock‑ups, or models whenever they are requested to keep the project on track.
• You believe in early collaboration with our Project Manager and Estimators when establishing budgets and timelines, ensuring we have a solid foundation from the start.
• You’re the driving force behind the project process, making sure everyone adheres to the timelines we've set. You provide ongoing support for estimating projects and conduct financial analyses to keep everything on budget. If there are any Change Orders in the project, You estimate them and communicate with budget holders to get their approval before moving forward.
• You’re responsible for organizing critical project meetings to keep everyone on the same page. You work closely with our Engineering team to provide fabrication drawings to the shop.
• Managing client inventory is also part of your role, ensuring that any new fabrication properties are correctly added to our inventory.
• You collaborate with our Purchasing department to procure materials in a timely manner for both fabrication and graphics production. Maintaining accuracy is crucial, so you work closely with our Graphics Production team to ensure that project details align with our expectations.
• You also liaise with the General Foreman in the shop to determine the crew size needed for each project.
• For specific project needs, you collaborate with the Lead Foreman to ensure everything runs smoothly.
• Before any properties leave our facility, you make sure they are correctly identified for shipment and cross‑check for accuracy.

• Knowledge of building and construction standards and terminology.
• Ability to read/understand engineering drawings and knowledge CAD/CAM manufacturing and fabrication.
• Understanding of Project Management methodology.
• Familiarity with interior and exterior building materials and fabrication techniques.
• Familiarity with graphic production techniques and methodology
• Drive, Determination and Persistence in guiding numerous shop personnel on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Computer Skills;
  Fluent in Excel and Word
• Exceptional Time Management Skills

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.

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.

Action oriented and approach work with a “can do” attitude. Willing to understand client contracts, procurement requirements and supplier code of conduct, scope and work with the client, in relation to housing and interacting with the various properties, and when necessary adapt to any given client.

Minimum of 5 years experience in construction or construction related fields

Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Construction Management, or equivalent experience.

Ability to travel 25%

Ability to work irregular hours in addition to normal business hours, to include…