Who We Are Looking For

As the Design Manager reporting directly to the Director of Design, you play a crucial role in overseeing the design department's operations and strategic direction, under the Director's instruction. Your responsibilities include guiding design-specific activities and coordinating closely with project managers on broader project decisions to maintain alignment with overall objectives. You will regularly engage with project managers to refine project details, ensuring design specifications uphold our highest standards, and serve as a key point of contact for other department heads and upper management. Additionally, you take an active role in the initial phases of key projects, advancing designs up to 30% completion to establish a solid foundation. This role is designed to provide leadership and ensure that the design department functions smoothly, aligning with organizational goals and client expectations, whether the Director is present or otherwise engaged.

Your Day to Day

• Direct comprehensive design initiatives, overseeing the creation and integration of mechanical, electrical, and structural elements.
• Facilitate collaboration across design and engineering teams to ensure cohesive project outcomes.
• Present design concepts and progress to stakeholders, articulating technical details and strategic vision.
• Review and approve all final design documents before they proceed to fabrication or are delivered to the client.
• Set design standards and practices, ensuring all work complies with industry regulations and company quality standards.
• Demonstrate the values of the core values and purpose of the organization.
• Ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Proficiency in relevant software and technologies.
• Results-oriented and proactive.
• High level of integrity and professionalism.
• Adaptability and resilience.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Detail-oriented; Able to work quickly and accurately.
• Exceptional organizational and strong time-management skills
• Enthusiastic and passionate about projects and process
• Be able to work under pressure without showing the workload.
• Ability to prioritize tasks as well as multitasking.
• Willingness to work long hours, often under pressure.
• Ability to work weekend and evening hours, as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Your Qualifications

• Preferred: Master’s degree (TD/ME/EE) OR Equivalent: 8-years experience as professional designer.
• OSHA 30 hr. (or willingness to obtain in first 3 months of full-time employment).
• Autodesk Certifications: Inventor Certified Expert, Revit for Architectural Design
• ETCP Theater Rigging, Preferred.
• Rhino: Level 2 Certification.
• AutoCAD drafting experience - Preferred: 1+ year.
• Inventor (or equivalent) - Preferred: 3+ years.
• Revit - Preferred: 6+ months.
• Team Leadership/Individual Project criteria
• Successful on large and medium design build projects.
• Meeting part specification budgets for their team on a consistent basis (80% of that time for a 2-year project history).
• Meeting design hour budgets for their team (80% of that time for a 2-year project history).

More About Us

EPS has created breathtaking experiences since 2009 and continues today to bring its clients an unrivaled boutique experience. We seek to be the partner of choice for entertainment projects providing high quality design, project management, show integration, fabrication, training, maintenance and installation services for custom machinery, unique structures, special effects, and anything else our creative partners dream up. EPS is comprised of mechanical designers, engineers, project managers, artists, craftspeople, technicians, riggers, and installers. The team has extensive experience with large budget production shows, amusement park attractions, cruise ships, art installations, in water, on stage, in the air and at sea. With decades of experience in technical direction and complex designs, the team applies their unique skillset to solving problems that are not well defined. Each new project is unique, we never see the same ideas twice; each solution presented is customized. Our line-up of tools and resources is extensive: Mechanical Design, 3D Modeling, Motion Studies, Horsepower Calculations/Estimates, Facility Impact Studies, fabrication drawings, CNC Machining, welding, assembly, controls design, programming, technical writing, rigging, training, and more.

Your Work Environment

This position is in the home office, Henderson, Nevada. Most work will be performed in an office environment. Anticipated travel is minimal, estimated at a 5% level.

Our Offer to You

• Base Salary.
• 100% paid premium for Medical Insurance Plan for employee.
• 100% paid premium for $25,000 Basic Life Insurance Plan for employee.
• 50% paid premium for Dental Insurance Plan for employee.
• 50% paid premium Vision Insurance Plan for employee.
• 401(k).
• Unlimited PTO.
• All Federal holidays paid.
• Skills development activities and opportunities for career advancement.
• Personal Enrichment Program.

This job description does not list all the duties of the position. Supervisors or managers may ask you to perform other duties. You will be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the tasks listed in this job description. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. The job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason.