JOB: Leo Villareal, Technical Project Manager

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

LEO VILLAREAL STUDIO

Leo Villareal Studio is a fine art studio specializing in the creation of highly-refined LED and video artwork. We are looking for a Technical Project Manager to join our team.

The new hire will be working closely with the artist and a small, tightly-knit team to facilitate the production of new LED and video artworks of a variety of scales. This job involves about 50% desk work (including design, material sourcing, project management, vendor management, budgeting, and archiving) and 50% hands-on production work (including assembly, software/hardware testing and setup, and installation supervision).

Responsibilities include:

• Manage multiple simultaneous artwork production projects; keeping projects on-budget and on-schedule and actively communicating timelines to clients and collaborators:

• • Identify and vet new fabricators and vendors to expand an existing pool

  • Select the appropriate vendors based project-specific demands

  • Perform materials research

  • Create Solidworks or CAD models for artworks that are being specified; communicate design requirements to vendors within a complete design drawing set

  • Write technical specifications that convey the minimum performance requirements for artworks that are being specified

  • Lead communication with fabricators drafting RFPs, work orders, and pre-inspection reports

  • Assist with the specification and configuration of artwork control computers and serve as systems administrator ensuring hardware and software are compatible, performing:disk imaging, OS setup, system installation, and content file-structure setup

  • Oversee the artwork programming, including supervising software developers on custom tool development.

  • Record each step in the creation of an artwork and ensure the artwork is properly documented in studio’s archive; create and maintain BOMs for active projects

  • Create artwork manuals and system diagrams

  • Review vendor bills and ensure they are properly coded

Qualifications:

• Experience specifying, designing, and fabricating electronic artwork

  • Ability to draw complex metalwork in 2D and 3D and to specify build parameters for fabricators while overseeing a given fabricator’s execution of the design.

  • Experience in mechanical and electrical assembly – crimping, wiring, soldering

• Experience managing multiple simultaneous production projects; ability to keep projects on-budget and on-schedule and communicate timelines to clients and collaborators

• Excellent communication skills

• Excellent attention to detail, including ability to inspect artworks and artwork components with an exacting microvision

• Superior organizational skills

• Excellent capacity for solving problems, willingness to learn new skills

• Good sense of humor

Required software skills: 

• Solidworks

• Autocad/Vectorworks/Rhino

• Adobe Creative Suite including: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and Acrobat

• MS Office

• Google Docs

• FileMaker Pro or equivalent

Application Instructions:

Please send us your resume and cover letter along with three references. Only complete applications will be considered. Email applications to: villarealstudiojobs@gmail.com.