About the Company
This is an opportunity to build a career, not simply take another shop-management job.
We are a growing Las Vegas-based experiential design and fabrication company creating high-end brand environments, exhibits, interactive experiences, permanent installations, and technically complex one-of-a-kind builds for national clients. Our projects bring together creative design, carpentry, CNC production, metal fabrication, welding, mechanical systems, technology, logistics, and installation.
The right Production Manager will have the opportunity to shape how the shop operates, develop people, improve systems, and help build the next stage of the company. This role is intended for someone who wants ownership, long-term growth, and the chance to make a visible impact.
What Makes Us Different
We take on ambitious projects that require creativity, precision, and serious problem-solving. Much of what we build has never been built before, and we expect our team to care deeply about the quality of the work.
We are intentionally selective about the work we take on. We gate revenue, protect capacity, and prioritize the right projects over growth for growth’s sake. The goal is not to become the biggest fabrication company as quickly as possible. It is to build an exceptional company known for ambitious work, strong execution, and a team that is proud of what it produces.
We also do not believe burnout is a badge of honor. Great work should be sustainable. We prioritize mental health, work-life balance, clear expectations, and a culture where people can perform at a high level without sacrificing their lives outside of work.
There will be demanding moments, but constant chaos is not the goal. The goal is to do exceptional work with good people and still have a life.
The Role
We are seeking a hands-on Production Manager who can lead daily shop operations while advancing the company’s fabrication, mechanical, and prototyping capabilities. This person will oversee projects from production handoff through fabrication, prototyping, testing, packing, and installation.
The ideal candidate combines strong shop leadership, operational discipline, and mechanical creativity. They must be able to look at an ambitious concept, determine how it can physically work, develop and test prototypes, and lead the team through a reliable, polished final execution.
This is not simply a scheduling or supervisory role. We need someone who can envision how structural, mechanical, scenic, and interactive elements work together—and then turn that vision into a practical production plan.
Ideal Candidate
- You can look at an ambitious creative concept and begin determining how it could physically work.
- You are equally comfortable reviewing shop hours, inspecting a weld, sketching a mechanical solution, building a prototype, creating an SOP, and leading a team through final execution.
- You understand that a successful experience must be visually impressive, mechanically reliable, safe, transportable, serviceable, and capable of withstanding real-world use.
- You lead with accountability and urgency while maintaining a respectful, solutions-oriented shop culture.
Responsibilities
- Lead daily shop operations, production schedules, and labor assignments.
- Manage fabrication across wood, CNC, metal, welding, assembly, and finishing.
- Translate drawings and creative concepts into practical fabrication plans.
- Provide mechanical vision and constructability guidance during project development.
- Lead prototyping for interactive experiences, mechanical games, kinetic elements, moving components, and custom mechanisms.
- Develop practical solutions involving motors, sensors, bearings, actuators, pneumatics, electronics, and mechanical assemblies.
- Test and refine prototypes for reliability, safety, durability, serviceability, and repeated public use.
- Identify technical risks and likely failure points before full production.
- Ensure projects meet the creative vision while remaining practical to transport, install, operate, maintain, and reuse.
- Ensure shop employees accurately track labor hours by project and task.
- Monitor estimated versus actual shop hours and address overruns early.
- Maintain clear visibility into shop capacity, project progress, staffing needs, and schedule risks.
- Create, implement, and maintain shop SOPs, checklists, testing procedures, and training materials.
- Develop repeatable processes for fabrication, welding, quality control, mock builds, packing, loading, and installation preparation.
- Establish quality-control checkpoints throughout fabrication and prototyping.
- Ensure projects are fully assembled, tested, photographed, documented, and approved before shipment whenever practical.
- Improve shop workflow, tooling, equipment, safety, organization, and efficiency.
- Lead, train, and hold the production team accountable for quality, productivity, craftsmanship, and deadlines.
- Develop the shop’s capabilities across carpentry, welding, metal fabrication, mechanical systems, and interactive production.
- Support occasional installations and troubleshoot technical issues in the field for more complex, high visibility projects.
- Provide the Director of Operations with accurate updates, recommendations, and solutions regarding shop performance and production risks.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in custom fabrication, experiential production, exhibits, scenic fabrication, themed environments, product development, or a related industry.
- 3+ years leading a fabrication shop or multidisciplinary production team.
- Strong experience with wood fabrication, metal fabrication, welding, and mechanical assemblies.
- Demonstrated experience developing prototypes and taking unique concepts through final production.
- Ability to visualize and develop custom mechanical solutions—not simply follow completed drawings.
- Ability to read technical drawings and identify constructability, reliability, and fabrication concerns.
- Experience managing labor hours, shop schedules, quality control, and overlapping deadlines.
- Ability to create and enforce practical shop SOPs.
- Strong leadership, communication, organization, and hands-on problem-solving skills.
- Comfortable moving between administrative responsibilities and hands-on shop leadership.
- Willingness to travel and support occasional evening or weekend installations.
Preferred Experience
- Expert at high-end, custom trade show and brand activation fabrications.
- Extraordinary knowledge of materials and how and when to use them.
- Interactive installations, mechanical games, kinetic experiences, themed entertainment, or product prototyping.
- Motors, sensors, pneumatics, bearings, actuators, electronics, lighting, or control systems.
- CNC routers, CAD/CAM workflows, 3D printing, and rapid prototyping.
- Aluminum and mild-steel fabrication.
- Designing installations or products for repeated public use.
- Experiential marketing, trade shows, museums, attractions, or scenic fabrication.
Pay: $105,000.00 - $135,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- On-the-job training
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Relocation assistance
- Vision insurance
Education:
Experience:
- Fabrication: 5 years (Required)
- Management: 5 years (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Las Vegas, NV 89118 (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Las Vegas, NV 89118: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
