• Job Description

  Req#: 24-04489

  One significant task (label printing) has been added to my department that was originally part of production. It is a bit of grunt work, but the right person will see how it all ties together and how important those tasks are.
  

  Inquisitive & Enjoys learning – (wants to know the ‘why?’)

  Attention to detail is a must

  Professional

  Comfortable with Complexity

  Comfortable with a fast paced environment

  Adapts easily to change

  Competent

  Conscientious

  Team player

  Not easily frustrated – tenacious
  
  Accountable for but not limited to:

  • Converting digital artwork for our proprietary digital press utilizing scripts, in-house procedures, and prior pre-press knowledge

  • Producing digital art work proofs for internal and external customers, including digitizing and vectorization of artwork when required

  • Maintaining all artwork databases while adhering to established naming and filing conventions

  • Ordering, receiving, and cataloging all new and reordered flexographic plates

  • Assisting inventory team with maintaining and managing plate storage

  • Developing, laying out, and revising label artwork for finished product rolls

  • Preparing, printing, and correlating all skid tags, proofs, and production orders for production team

  • Cultivating new color books, formulations, and procedures when presented with new substrates, inks, and workflow issues

  • Addressing after-hour issues from production team relating to artwork, labels, and plates

  • Advocating for cross functional collaboration between production, customer service, and QC teams, ensuring quality and pre-press standards are executed and maintained for all projects

    Competencies:

  • Strong follow-up and follow-through, skilled with tracking processes and keeping up with timelines and deadlines

  • Inquisitive and curious about how and why processes/workflows operate, knows when to ask questions

  • Attention to detail - able to review orders, identify and correct issues, and check and recheck to ensure

  • Understanding of 4 color process and spot colors, layout, typography, and flexographic plate making

  • Demonstrated experience with Adobe Creative Cloud 2017, proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, and Adobe InDesign

  • 
    *USE THIS DESCRIPTION*
    Proofing customer artwork to company specifications / templates using Adobe InDesign
    • Adjusting artwork for printability including overprints, bleeds, color conversions, recreation of raster elements into vector, etc.
    • Send files through ESKO Automation Engine to be made into flexographic plates
    • Produce flexographic printing plates
    • Attend meetings to stay up to date on jobs on daily production schedule
    • Usage and maintenance of EPSON proofer
    • Paper color profiling for Screen NX digital press• Proofing customer artwork to company specifications / templates using Adobe InDesign • Adjusting artwork for printability including overprints, bleeds, color conversions, recreation of raster elements into vector, etc. • Send files through ESKO Automation Engine to be made into flexographic plates • Produce flexographic printing plates • Attend meetings to stay up to date on jobs on daily production schedule • Usage and maintenance of EPSON proofer • Paper color profiling for Screen NX digital press

  
  
  Benefits:

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k)

• About the company

  Mindlance is one of the largest diversity-owned staffing firms in the US . As a recruitment centric talent acquisition company, Mindlance provides Technology, Engineering, Digital / Creative / Marketing, Clinical Research, Scientific, Finance, Professional and Payroll Management staffing services to Global 1000 companies across the US, Canada and India.

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