Other Positions
While we have no current openings, here are some of the other positions that we have and what they entail:
Buyer
Buys supplies, materials, equipment, and services, develops standardized specifications for the purchasing of commodities used by several departments, reviews contracts and purchase orders to ensure clarity, identifies sources of materials for sign manufacturing, maintains appropriate documentation and records, negotiates with vendors regarding purchase requirements, prices, trade and cash discounts, deliveries, and current product development, ensures products are available when needed for production schedule, issues subcontracts for masonry and other services required for sign installations, helps coordinate vehicle and building maintenance. Requires a minimum of 2 years of similar experience, advanced negotiating skills, ability to organize and prioritize and interact effectively with internal departments and vendors.
Fabrication Center Worker
This job consists of taking a bill of materials of a new job and taking these materials from stock rack locations, cutting to size and placing on a cart for use by a fabrication cell. Shearing aluminum sheet, bending aluminum sheet, cutting and punching steel angle, plate and channels. Perfect accuracy in count, size and record keeping is paramount. Operates shears, brake, radial arm saw, iron worker, torch and plasma torch, jib cranes, and other miscellaneous hand tools, stretches flex material onto sign or awning frames. Performs miscellaneous duties such as grinding, sanding, gluing, hole punching, sheeting, torching, clipping flex faces, and priming steel frames. Requires trade school degree, 2 years in sheet metal/steel fabrication industry, ability to read blueprints, experience in operating a forklift and custom work background. Should be familiar with the operation of sheet metal shears, brake, jib cranes and power hand tools.
Fabrication/Wiring Worker
Wires electrical lighting for a variety of sign cabinets using hand tools such as a plasma torch, angles, and drill. Requires Trade school degree, electrical background, ability to read blueprints, experience in operating a forklift and custom work background.
Painter – Second Shift (approx 2 pm to midnight, Mon – Thur)
This work is prepping and spray painting the sign cabinets and poles we make. It is similar to automotive grade painting as the signs are a finished product. Some of the substructures do get painted to an industrial grade finish. Experience in painting is required for this work. Pay depends on skill level and productivity.
Sales Assistant
Verifies submittal of daily call reports, weekly learning reports, and A/R reports, maintains work load spreadsheets, assists with architectural, national account and outside rep bids, maintains company information documents, creates and maintains project profile pages for reference and bid packages, reviews outstanding estimate requests for follow-up, maintains active bid files for major project, national account and outside sales, assists Sales Manager and Exec Vice President as required. Requires high school diploma or equivalent, marketing experience or education, attention to detail and thoroughness. Must work well as a team under pressure and tight deadlines, have Microsoft Excel experience, including formatting of professional spreadsheets, creating and manipulating formulas. Need general business experience and ability to write professional letters and emails. Estimating and basic CorelDraw experience helpful.
Permit Coordinator
Contacts municipalities nation-wide to ensure sign projects will meet municipality’s sign codes. Works closely with project managers, salespersons, and customers. Responsible for composing code reviews in document form and obtaining permits for various projects. Requires excellent oral and written communications skills with strong attention to detail. Prefer paralegal background and experience working with code requirements.
Sign Installer
Works in the field at various job sites installing signs on storefronts as well as free standing signs. Operates a crane truck. Uses various hand tools and power tools. Hires subcontractors to dig foundations and pour concrete. Must be able to weld, must hold a Class A CDL, must have successfully worked at heights up to 100 feet in the past, must be willing to travel overnight up to 100 days per year and must have worked outdoors for at least 12 straight months. Installers usually work as an assistant to an experienced sign installer for up to 2 years before being promoted to crew leader unless they have worked as a sign installer elsewhere. This is hard, physically demanding work. It also pays very well with a lot of overtime. We travel all over the country and it does offer some chance to see other cities after the work day has ended.
Accounts Receivable Clerk
Entry level position, billing, collections, associate degree preferred
Accounting Clerk
Entry level position, various projects as assigned by accounting manager
Buyer
Buys supplies, materials, equipment, and services, develops standardized specifications for the purchasing of commodities used by several departments, reviews contracts and purchase orders to ensure clarity, identifies sources of materials for sign manufacturing, maintains appropriate documentation and records, negotiates with vendors regarding purchase requirements, prices, trade and cash discounts, deliveries, and current product development, ensures products are available when needed for production schedule, issues subcontracts for masonry and other services required for sign installations, helps coordinate vehicle and building maintenance. Requires a minimum of 2 years of similar experience, advanced negotiating skills, ability to organize and prioritize and interact effectively with internal departments and vendors.
Install Coordinator
Locates and qualifies subcontractors to install signs for us, assists accounting department in obtaining payment requirements, tracks and maintains documentation and communication with subcontractors, arranges surveys, coordinates events with project management and manufacturing personnel. Requires college degree in business or related field, a professional demeanor, strong negotiating skills, daily problem solving, attention to detail and strong written and verbal communication skills.
Sales Assistant
Verifies submittal of daily call reports, weekly learning reports, and A/R reports, maintains work load spreadsheets, assists with architectural, national account and outside rep bids, maintains company information documents, creates and maintains project profile pages for reference and bid packages, reviews outstanding estimate requests for follow-up, maintains active bid files for major project, national account and outside sales, assists Sales Manager and Exec Vice President as required. Requires high school diploma or equivalent, marketing experience or education, attention to detail and thoroughness. Must work well as a team under pressure and tight deadlines, have Microsoft Excel experience, including formatting of professional spreadsheets, creating and manipulating formulas. Need general business experience and ability to write professional letters and emails. Estimating and basic CorelDraw experience helpful.
Accounting/Receptionist
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Painter
This work is prepping and spray painting the sign cabinets and poles we make. It is similar to automotive grade painting as the signs are a finished product. Some of the substructures do get painted to an industrial grade finish. Experience in painting is required for this work. Pay depends on skill level and productivity.
Stockroom Attendant
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Account Manager
Account Managers are responsible for maintaining and expanding existing client relationships and serve as the primary contact for the customer. Position requires excellent communication and customer service skills.
Sign Fabricator
This is sheet metal fabrication working in our shop. Working from designs and prints, the fabricator makes sign frames out of steel and aluminum and fabricates poles and pole covers. Experience in welding is required as well as a strong working knowledge of sheet metal fabrication. The work is in a modern, clean and safe environment. It is interesting work with little repetition. Many of Jones fabricators have been here for many years and they provide a lot of advice and guidance on how to best go about intricate work. Requires lifting up to 80 lbs. Pay depends on skill and productivity. Sign experience not required.
Letter Fabricator
Very similar to sign fabricator but working with lighter materials in fabricating lit and non lit letters. Welding skills are not necessary. Pay depends on skill and productivity.
Assembler
This job involves taking the signs after they are painted and putting them together. Each one is different so a variety of mechanical skills are needed but mostly a good eye and a commitment to quality is what it takes. No welding skills necessary. Also involves packing and loading the signs on our trailers for install or onto semi trucks for being shipped out. Forklift skills are necessary but can be taught. This is an entry level position and a great way to learn the sign business from the ground floor up. Successful assemblers can go on to be fabricators or installers.
Vinyl Applicator
Takes computer cut vinyl and adheres it to sign faces. These can be table top work to giant signs out in the field. Fast paced work environment, relatively easy craft to learn. Advancements to vinyl cutting position are possible.
Fabrication Center Worker
Operates shears, brake, radial arm saw, iron worker, torch and plasma torch, jib cranes, and other miscellaneous hand tools, stretches flex material onto sign or awning frames. Performs miscellaneous duties such as grinding, sanding, gluing, hole punching, sheeting, torching, clipping flex faces, and priming steel frames. Requires trade school degree, 2 years in sheet metal/steel fabrication industry, ability to read blueprints, experience in operating a forklift and custom work background. Should be familiar with the operation of sheet metal shears, brake, jib cranes and power hand tools.
Fabrication/Wiring Worker
Wires electrical lighting for a variety of sign cabinets using hand tools such as a plasma torch, angles, and drill. Requires Trade school degree, electrical background, ability to read blueprints, experience in operating a forklift and custom work background.
Painter Helper
Assists the Head Painter with the cleaning and preparation of product, maintains a high quality paint finish on all projects, cleans and maintains paint booth and equipment. Utilizes HVLP paint system. Requires High School diploma or equivalent, 1 year of spray booth painting experience. Experience with HVLP spray system desired. Must be quality oriented and consistently able to produce a high quality product.
Production Supervisors
Production supervisors must have a good understanding of the production department, including assembly, fabrication, letter fabrication and paint, and be responsible for compliance with all safety and company policies in the production department. Responsibilities include: (1) Plan and direct production activities and establish production priorities for products in keeping with effective operations and within established cost factors, (2) Provide leadership, support, and guidance to manufacturing and other support teams while ensuring goals, objectives, and accountability are consistently achieved and (3) Develop, implement, and manage plans for effective, optimum, and efficient use of materials, machine operations, and human resources. Sign company experience preferred.
Major Projects Salesperson
This is business on a grand scale. These sales people target major construction projects around the country and beyond, define the opportunity, understand the decision making process and navigate it to a successful conclusion. Jones Sign is a well qualified and highly regarded company which has done sign programs and specialty fabrication for major retail malls, airports, museums, sports arenas, exhibit halls, stadiums, theaters, hospitals and other public and private buildings nationwide. We need more salespeople to continue to build on this success. A keen understanding of the business world is necessary along with proven past sales success. Outstanding written and verbal skills are a must. Salary plus commission, expenses and benefits. This is a position in which you either have great success or fail miserably. Involves extensive travel.
Regional Salesperson
This is business-to-business sales at the highest level. Our salesmen deal with everyone from Fortune 500 companies to upstart entrepreneurs opening their first location. Successful business-to-business sales background is a must. Outstanding verbal and written communication need to be demonstrated. An understanding of the business world is needed. Some travel is involved to see customers around the Midwest or the country. While there is a base training salary for the first year and a draw based on projected sales, the compensation is results-based. It has no limit. With our top notch design team, our great reputation, our support staff and our ability to manufacture anything in signs at a very competitive price, salesmen have before them one of the most outstanding employment opportunities imaginable. We are very selective for this job so please think twice or more before applying. Remember: a successful business-to-business, capital goods sales background is required.
Sales Research Analyst/Telemarketer
Complies, qualifies and categorizes sales leads using all available resources. Excellent communication skills a must, particularly the ability to talk to people on the phone.
CNC Router Programmer
Responsible for setup and operation of CNC routers and other CNC equipmemt used in the custom sign manufacturing process.
Purchasing Manager
Under general direction, plans, organizes, and directs the Company's purchasing activities; establishes policies and procedures for the buying of supplies, materials and performs related duties as required. Minimum five years experience. Salary based on experience.
Quality Control Specialist
Monitor conformance with designs/prints/specifications as well as industry standards for all products manufactured at our De Pere plant. Minimum 5 years experience in a custom manufacturing environment. Salary and full benefits. Growing company with many opportunities.
Estimator
Develops prices for various signs using information gathered by salespersons. Prefer an individual with estimating experience. Ability to look at a design and break it down into a list of component parts and the work steps necessary to make the sign along with the hours for each operation. Computer excellence is necessary. Good communication skills are required. This is a fast-paced job. Nice office environment. Interact with sales, production, purchasing and vendors. Salary is commensurate with experience. Salary and full benefits.
Service Technician
Uses bucket truck to access and repair the lighting on signs. Usually works alone, and primarily in the Green Bay to Fox Valley area with some trips beyond. Experience working outdoors, at heights and with wiring is valued. Experience is preferred but will train someone with a strong interest in this type of work. Good pay.
Business Generalist
This is a new position involving drafting agreements, analyzing contracts, drafting policies, negotiating change orders. Ideal candidate would possess an MBA or JD and have strong writing skills. Salary, full benefits, growing organization.
Vacuum Forming Department Manager
To set up and run this department to vacuum form sign faces. Will select equipment and employees and be in complete charge of this department which does not presently exist. Obviously vast experience in this field is required. Pay is negotiable.
Designer
Prepares original sign designs from information given to him by salesmen. Typically, the salesman has an idea of what type of sign is wanted, size limitations imposed by ordinances and the physical dimensions of the property and the building front along with the company’s logo, letter style and colors. If the building exists, the salesman provides digital and 35mm pictures of the building and surrounding area. He also gives information as to budget and what others are proposing. 4 hours are budgeted per client for this – if time allows, the sign is superimposed to scale on the digital picture to represent how the finished product will look and an option or two is shown. There are senior designers, designers and draftsmen/detailers. The pay range varies with experience.
Human Resources Generalist
This person coordinates with management to determine staffing needs, writes job descriptions, places advertisements, interviews prospective candidates, conducts or coordinates background checks and testing, makes offers and completes new hire paperwork. Other duties include recordkeeping, terminations, exit interviews and benefits administration.
Sales Manager
Hires, trains and supervises the work of up to 10 sales people working on selling sign projects in the Midwest. This group focuses on opportunities in the “local/regional” market which consists of Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, Northern Illinois and the eastern portion of Minnesota. Currently this group has three sales people. [other sales groups in the company are national accounts, architectural projects and billboards – there are 14 sales people total]. Ideal candidate would be a mature individual with 5 years or more of successful sales management of reps selling large ticket, custom, business to business products. Sign industry experience helpful but not required. Compensation is salary plus bonus based on the increase in sales by the group. There is no commission paid on any sales made personally by the sales manager. Full benefit and expense package is included. The bonus is 1% of the increased sales from the year prior to the manager starting and is unlimited. Reports to Executive Vice President.
Billboard Ad Space Sales - Part Time
Sell billboard space in your spare time to businesses in the Northeastern and North Central Wisconsin area. Outstanding commission schedule. Expenses reimbursed.
Purchasing - Commodities and Logistics
Create and implement programs to source aluminum, steel, plastic, electrical components as well as trucking/logistics. Minimum of 5 years experience in this field within a manufacturing environment. Reports to purchasing manager. Salary plus full benefits.
Purchasing/Inventory Control Specialist
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Stockroom Supervisor
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Neon Technician
Bends glass using flames and patterns. Experience is valued in this department but we will train someone who is committed to learning the craft. Beginners pump glass, weld on electrodes, make patterns, rack glass. Interesting work but is a precision craft. Pay is commensurate with experience.
Associate Project Manager
Assist Project Managers in a number of ways including obtaining permits and variances, shepherding the job through design, fabrication and installation, hiring installers if needed, and coordinating timelines with other trades such as electricians, masons and roofers. Communicate with customers, general contractors and subcontractors to make our work dovetail with the overall project. This job requires a very organized individual with very strong written and verbal communication skills, the ability to negotiate and the ability to think. Results are rewarded. 100% customer retention is the goal. Business-to-business customer service background is preferred. Some travel for variances and job site visits is required. Pay range is variable depending upon experience. Opportunity to advance to Project Manager.
Executive Secretary
Supports several executives by keeping them organized, composing letters from verbal outlines, making travel plans, entering work orders, sketch requests, estimate requests, etc. Varies greatly day to day. Must have professional level writing ability, good organizational skills, be proficient with Word, Excel and the Internet and have worked in this capacity in a growing, fast-paced company. Pay commensurate with experience. The person hired tends to be either fired or worshipped within 90 days depending on performance. There is no middle ground in this job. The timid need not apply.
Staff Accountant
Variety of daily challenges including preparing financial statements, job costing, analysis of estimate versus costs, invoicing, collections, expense postings, some HR type work, advising management, devising custom reports. Qualifications: experience in a job cost environment, worked in a similar sized business, well-versed in Excel software, at least 10 years experience in accounting, good interpersonal skills, ability to write well, experience with SyteLine software a plus.
Sandblasting Department Manager
To set up and run this department to sandblast signs and miscellaneous products. Will decide on equipment and employees and be in charge of this department which does not presently exist but has in the past. Experience required, pay is negotiable.
Billboard Traffic Manager
Writes contracts, updates databases, enters work orders, gets artwork approved by clients, enters service orders, organizes records for the billboard department. This is a fast-paced job. The successful applicant should have very good verbal skills, good phone skills, be highly organized, be very proficient with Word, Excel and the Internet. This position does not involve selling, but there is some contact with customers after the sale to get details. Pay is commensurate with experience. This could be structured as a half-time job or it could be a full-time job with the rest of the time being spent helping with data entry in bookkeeping or acting as a backup receptionist.