Thank you for your interest in employment opportunities at the Nimlok Company. As a trade show exhibit company, Nimlok is committed to providing the highest quality products and services in the display and trade show industry.
Nimlok is committed to providing a work environment that provides training, evaluation and recognition. The company also believes that a successful business is dependant upon the efforts of motivated and happy employees, given clear direction and goals.
Career opportunities contained on this site reflect positions available at Nimlok Corporate office in Niles, Illinois. If you are interested in employment opportunities at other Nimlok locations, please refer to the sidebar and click the country to find the appropriate operating company. You may contact each location individually for employment opportunities.
Graphics Technician
The ideal candidate will be responsible for color correction, pre-flighting and preparing files from Business Partners/Distributors. You are organized and have a good eye for color and detail. Experience with large format digital printers is a plus.
Responsibilities:
- Preflight and prepare client-supplied files for large format vinyl, inkjet, dyesub and direct to substrate printing
- Digital retouching and color correction
- Retouching and file manipulation
- Handle multiple projects with aggressive deadlines
- Track order status and maintain log in database
- Quality-control check proofs and completed graphics
- Provide technical support to external Distributors, clients and Designers
- Communicate with Customer Service Department, Distributors and Clients regarding graphic order status and issues
- Archive art upon completion of job
- Pantone/color matching
- Manage each graphic order from start to finish
- Attend Put To Work Meetings to discuss upcoming graphic orders
Qualifications:
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design
- Two years experience in print and electronic media
- Proficiency in Mac OSX environment and Adobe Creative Suite
- Familiarity with Quark, InDesign and Freehand a plus
- Ability to work in fast-paced environment
- Detail oriented
- Knowledge of printing and production
- Excellent troubleshooting skills with hardware and software
- Good communication skills and the ability to listen actively and ask questions to clarify a project’s goals, requirements and deadlines
- Flexibility with the possibility of staggered shift work
If you are interested in an exciting career as a professional leader please contact Nimlok today. Please email your resume, cover letter, and salary history to careers@nimlok.com or Nimlok, Attn: HR Dept, 7420 Lehigh Ave, Niles, IL 60714
Show Complete Listing
Customer Service Representatives Wanted
We have a great Customer Service Representative opportunity at our headquarters in Niles, IL.
Customer Service Representatives are to answer phones in a professional manner, take orders, data entry, project management and problem resolution. The Customer Service Department supports and guides Nimlok Business Partners and distributors in regards to general trade show/exhibit questions, placing of orders for stock items, graphics, portable kits and customized portable kits.
Responsibilities Include:
- Answer & Return any voice mail or e-mail within two hours.
- Confirm orders for off the shelf stocked items within two hours.
- Confirm all other orders within 24 hours.
- Insure that all orders are entered into NIMS accurately and that they contain all information required by production to fulfill the order.
- Communicate with production to insure that the order instructions are followed.
- Work with partners to resolve any issue with orders through the issuance of a Return Authorization or a No Charge Shipment.
- Invoice orders within three days of shipment.
- Log incoming orders and graphic files and distribute to appropriate team personnel.
- Receive graphic approvals from partners or clients and approve them in NIMS and alert production so that they can be produced.
- Combine and review all No Charge Shipments (Internal and External) on a monthly basis and deliver to the Quality Control Manager within four days of the end of each month.
- Report any non-conformances or the potential for non-conformance’s to the Inventory and Quality Control Manager.
- Track and approve the Company’s “quality assurance agreement” with all business partners.
Requirements:
- 2-5 years Customer Service experience
- Past experience with distributor network a plus
- Exceptional communication skills - excellent phone etiquette
- Need to be detailed oriented
- Must be able to problem-solve
- Energetic and self confident
- Ability to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines
- Must speak English proficiently
- Extremely Professional
- Willingness to learn and grow within a team concept
- Must have computer skills – Microsoft office, etc.
- High School or equivalent and/or BA preferred
If you are interested in an exciting career as a professional leader please contact Nimlok today. Please email your resume, cover letter, and salary history to careers@nimlok.com or Nimlok, Attn: HR Dept, 7420 Lehigh Ave, Niles, IL 60714
Show Complete Listing
Exhibit Project Manager
We have a great Exhibit Project Manager opportunity at our headquarters in Niles, IL.
The Project Manager functions as an integral member of the Company, providing quality, structural design for Nimlok’s exhibit and custom display customers. You must manage each order from start to finish and provide a stamp of quality and approval. This position requires an experienced individual, ideally one who has experience in one or more of the following – tradeshow exhibit design, industrial design, or architectural design.
Responsibilities:
- Manage each project/order from start to finish. Create and maintain a timeline for each project.
- Consistent demonstration of good design sense through a portfolio which includes space and structure. Insure that any critical change to any project goes through the verification process. Report all non-conformances to management.
- Clearly present/communicate designs, structure, estimates and ideas via email and telephone to Business Partners, distributors and clients.
- Act as a point of contact for all client previews.
- Inform and problem-solve with each Business Partner any concerns/problems during internal set-up prior to exhibit being sent/shipped.
- Create and approve the quality of each project before it is shipped. Track and approve the Company’s “quality assurance agreement” with all business partners.
- Must handle multiple deadlines and very tight turnarounds.
Requirements:
- 3-5 yrs of background/experience in tradeshow exhibit design, industrial design or architecture
- CAD skills are a must - skillful in communicating 3D space and design, both on paper and digitally
- Good communication skills, both verbal and written
- Fluent with all of the common Adobe products
- Working knowledge of the Macintosh Operating System
- Background/experience in tradeshow exhibit design, industrial design, or architectural design
- Self-starter
- Well-organized & detailed-oriented
- Typography, and graphic design, large format graphic design experience a plus
- Team Player
- B.A./B.S. preferred
If you are interested in an exciting career as a professional leader please contact Nimlok today. Please email your resume, cover letter, and salary history to careers@nimlok.com or Nimlok, Attn: HR Dept, 7420 Lehigh Ave, Niles, IL 60714
Show Complete Listing
Trade Show Exhibit Designer
We have great opportunities for both an experienced and entry-level Exhibit Designer at our headquarters in Niles, IL. Please visit our website at www.nimlok.com for any additional information on the Company.
The Exhibit Designer functions as an integral member of the design staff, providing quality, custom design for Nimlok’s exhibit and display distributors and customers. This position requires a person to have experience in one or more of the following: tradeshow exhibit design, industrial design, or architectural design.
Responsibilities Include:
- Designing creative eye-catching tradeshow exhibits and estimating your designs.
- Computer experience with CAD software. Experience sharing 3D design files with partners, graphic and project managers department. Engineering in a concurrent effort to produce stylish, functional solutions while also reducing the time to market.
- Demonstrate solid design sense through each project that includes space, measurement, form, volume, and color.
- Clearly and professionally present ideas and designs to partners and client during design meetings via face-to-face, phone, and email.
- Take design direction from the partners, client, sales representatives, and Department Manager.
- Operate effectively under time constraints and meet deadlines.
- Display solid orientation towards services and be cost conscious.
Requirements:
- 1-7 years Design experience
- Ability to design in Software such as Vectorworks and Adobe Photoshop
- Typography, and graphic design
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
- Large format graphic design experience a plus
- Working knowledge of the Macintosh Operating System
- Background/experience in tradeshow exhibit design, industrial design, or architectural design a major plus
- Possess an understanding of exhibits as a marketing and communication tool
- Past experience with distributor network a plus
- BA/BS or equivalent in Design/Graphics
If you are interested in an exciting career as a professional leader please contact Nimlok today. Please email your resume, cover letter, and salary history to careers@nimlok.com or Nimlok, Attn: HR Dept, 7420 Lehigh Ave, Niles, IL 60714
Show Complete Listing
Trade Show Sales Consultants Wanted
We currently have sales opportunities in the following locations: Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, San Francisco, New York, Minnesota, Miami, Orlando, Gulf Coast, Charlotte, Washington D.C., Boston, Grand Rapids, Memphis, Central PA, Georgia, Omaha, Greenville, Maine, Iowa, San Diego, Kansas, Kentucky, Cincinnati, Milwaukee and Toronto. Please visit our website at www.nimlok.com for additional information.
The perfect candidate understands the trade show/exhibit industry and possesses 2-5yrs sales experience. There is great opportunity to further develop and create a solid financially rewarding sales career utilizing the on-site training program and career development education at Nimlok’s headquarters.
Responsibilities – Selling exhibit products and solutions through:
- Calling on existing database of clients
- Following up on leads provided by marketing activities and current client lists
- Shadowing existing senior account executives
- Walking trade shows
- Generate interest primarily through telemarketing/prospecting
- Manage time and budgets to see projects through to a profitable completion
- Preparing quotes/orders
- Product/Sales Training
- Visiting prospects/clients
- Present design solutions to prospects and close sales
Requirements:
- Exceptional communication skills, presentation, and organizational skills
- Energetic and self confident
- Ability to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines
- Professional
- Passion for selling
- Willingness to learn and grow within a team concept
- Flexibility within a fast moving sales environment
- 2-5 years experience
- Must be able to discuss and exhibit sales strategies
If you are interested in an exciting career as a professional leader please contact Nimlok today. Please email your resume, cover letter, and salary history to careers@nimlok.com or Nimlok, Attn: HR Dept, 7420 Lehigh Ave, Niles, IL 60714
Show Complete Listing
Graphics Print Finisher
We have a great Graphics Print Finisher opportunity at our headquarters in Niles, IL. This position is important to our production department’s quality assurance guarantee. You need to be extremely detailed oriented and follow through with each project.
Responsibilities Include:
- Follow print/manufacturing project instructions for large format vinyl, inkjet and direct to substrate graphics
- Quality-control check completed graphics throughout the project
- Manage all graphic print orders from start to finish
- Operate laminator and trimmer
- Fasten and glue hardware to graphics
- Handle and process to completion multiple projects with aggressive deadlines
- Provide graphic order status information to Customer Service Department, Graphic Techs and other various departments
- Packing and shipping
- Inventory control
- All other duties assigned
Requirements:
- 2-3 years experience in print production
- Ability to work in fast-paced environment
- Detail oriented
- Knowledge of printing and production
- Good communication skills and the ability to listen actively and ask questions to clarify a project’s goals, requirements and deadlines
- Ability to follow written and verbal job instructions
- Must read and speak English fluently
- High School/GED needed
- Willing to work staggered shifts when needed
If you are interested in an exciting career as a professional leader please contact Nimlok today. Please email your resume, cover letter, and salary history to careers@nimlok.com or Nimlok, Attn: HR Dept, 7420 Lehigh Ave, Niles, IL 60714
Show Complete Listing
Sewing/Tailor Technician
This position is responsible for finishing of hard panels and fabric graphics. For cutting patterns and sewing of small and large fabric banners and structures. Assist with sublimating images onto fabric, laminating graphic panels, complex graphic cutting and mounting graphics to substrates within established quality guidelines.
Responsibilities:
- Read and interpret relevant information from work orders.
- May be responsible for Hard Panel and/or Fabric finishing.
- Complete pre-production of banner stands as required which includes some assembly, label application, etc.
- May provide assistance with basic and repetitive sewing tasks (i.e. seamed tension banners). May work on bleed seams, zippers and button holes, etc.
- Responsible for the completion of high end sewing projects, tube structures, etc. Conduct visual inspections of finished product to ensure adherence to established quality guidelines.
- Conduct basic operator maintenance on sewing equipment. Troubleshoot more serious mechanical issues and provide this information to management/repair technician.
- Hard Panel finishing responsibilities may include the following: cutting, finishing – using magnets, Velcro and/or grommets & packing.
- Fabric finishing responsibilities may include the following: cutting, finishing – using sewing machine & packing.
- Assisting in sublimating images onto fabric.
- Board mount graphics to substrates.
- Complete more complex cutting requests using existing profiles.
- Duties are not limited to the above mentioned and could have additional tasks as required by the business.
Requirements:
- High school diploma or GED equivalent.
- 3-5 years experience working with fabrics in a production/manufacturing type work environment.
- Knowledge of and past experience designing a creating patterns highly desired.
- Experience with laminating machines is a plus.
- Knowledge of general graphic functions helpful.
- Basic math skills.
- Knowledge of quality assurance processes and programs.
- Basic computer skills a plus.
- Read and speak English fluently.
- Ability to pass color blindness test.
If you are interested in an exciting career as a professional leader please contact Nimlok today. Please email your resume, cover letter, and salary history to careers@nimlok.com or Nimlok, Attn: HR Dept, 7420 Lehigh Ave, Niles, IL 60714
Show Complete Listing
General Manager Trade Show Distribution Company
Nimlok Chicago, a sales partner of the Nimlok Company is looking for a General Manager with solid sales and general management experience. Nimlok Chicago is a small business that delivers high quality client-centric custom modular exhibit solutions as well as rental products, visual communication systems and a full range of trade show products and services. We were Nimlok’s number 1 sales partner for 2006.
The perfect candidate understands and appreciates a small business, but has experience within the distributor and/or trade show/exhibit industry and possesses 7-10yrs sales experience. There is great opportunity to further develop and create a solid financially rewarding sales and general management career utilizing the on-site training program and career development education at Nimlok’s headquarters. Visit our website at www.nimlok.com for more information about the company.
Responsibilities – Managing and Selling exhibit products and solutions through:
- Preparing and managing budgets
- Managing the Human Resource function, including recruiting efforts
- Shadowing existing senior account executives and offering guidance to better selling strategies
- Developing & implementing market strategies that positively impact the bottom line
- Leads and coordinates all sales targets and monitors draws and commissions
- Manage time and budgets to see projects through to a profitable completion
- Preparing quotes/orders
- Product/Sales Training
Requirements:
- Exceptional communication skills, presentation, and organizational skills
- Energetic and self confident
- Ability to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines
- Professional * Passion for selling
- Exceptional management skills
- Willingness to learn and grow within a team concept
- Flexibility within a fast moving sales environment
- 7-10 years experience
- Must be able to discuss and exhibit sales strategies
If you are interested in an exciting career as a professional leader please contact Nimlok today. Please email your resume, cover letter, and salary history to careers@nimlok.com or Nimlok, Attn: HR Dept, 7420 Lehigh Ave, Niles, IL 60714
Show Complete Listing
Exhibit Detailer
This position is the key for all exhibits and displays being finished and completed according to design and guaranteeing distributor order is correct.
Responsibilities Include:
- Create exhibit & display drawings using 3D CAD
- Create display components for tops, soffits and other custom elements
- Produce assembly instructions for end user
- Guarantee that components and custom elements are designed and created according to Distributor job order or project.
Requirements:
- Good communication skills are essential
- Candidate must have solid 3D CAD understanding or training
- 2-3 year experience Exhibit Detailer
- Ability to work in fast-paced environment
- Detail oriented
- Need to multi-task and organize competently
- Speak and read English fluently
- Experience with quality assurance processes in a manufacturing environment
- Able to handle multiple deadlines and fast turnaround schedules
- Must be able to follow written and verbal job instructions and procedures
- High School Diploma/GED, but B.A. preferred
- Must have computer experience (Microsoft suite, customer service software, etc.)
If you are interested in an exciting career as a professional leader please contact Nimlok today. Please email your resume, cover letter, and salary history to careers@nimlok.com or Nimlok, Attn: HR Dept, 7420 Lehigh Ave, Niles, IL 60714
Show Complete Listing
