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

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  *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)