Creative Artworker
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary :
Creative Artworker
Full time
Graphic Brands, Unit 3Q, Beehive Mill, Jersey Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 6JG.
Role overview
Established in 2002, the Reflex Group is now the largest privately owned print and packaging company in the UK having grown to over 900 employees across 22 sites in the UK and Europe. The company prides itself on quality, efficiency, ethics and low environmental impact whilst being innovative and dynamic.
The company has an opportunity for a Creative Artworker to join our in-house artwork team, with a wide range of clients and consumer product sectors to support our National Print group, working on branding, packaging, campaigns, projects (online and offline) and printed media working out of our Reflex Greenhouse site in Manchester.
The successful candidate will be working closely with our team to produce: a wide variety of artwork for print and digital projects; visual concepts; supporting the studio manager in checking artwork from team members and monitoring quality output.
Design adaptation skills are a must and working with the in-house design team, the role will involve collaborating to ensure artwork is accurate to industry standards whilst also enhancing the design. You will be responsible for producing print ready retail product packaging across a wide range of artwork platforms for our clients and major UK retailers.
You will have a good eye for layout and typography, have a creative flair in artwork creation, meticulous attention to detail and fluent in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign).
Ideally you will need to understand modern print processes in packaging and digital production (online asset creation).
Key skills include:
To generate print-ready creative layouts across a wide range of design within brand guidelines
Deliver projects, of high quality and volume of artwork to tight deadlines – predominantly packaging and marketing literature, responding well to difficult creative and production challenges.
Knowledge of Flexo Wide Web Film, Flexo Narrow Web Labels and Litho offset print processes a must
A meticulous eye for detail and strong creative visualisation skills
Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
Advanced photoshop skillset for image retouching
Good Office skills, competent using Mac and PC Platform (PowerPoint and Word)
Strong understanding of layout and typography
Aptitude to work well under pressure on a number of projects simultaneously
Well organised and resourceful (ensuring in-house processes are followed) with consistent standards.
Confidence to work under your own initiative as well as part of a team with good communication skills.
Be proactive in improving skillset and studio processes
Knowledge of reprographic rules for print and Web Asset creation, illustration skills or image retouching would be desirable.
The role offers development to build a successful career working in a fast paced, dynamic and team orientated environment with a competitive salary whilst working with some of the biggest retail consumer brands and retailers across the World.
You must be currently eligible to work in the UK and have a driving licence. Ideally you would be located within 50 minutes drive of Ancoats, Manchester.
Please apply attaching your CV and examples of your work.
The benefits of working for Reflex are 22 holidays a year, rising to 25 after 4 years’ service, competitive rates of pay, salary sacrifice pension scheme, death in service insurance (after 1 years’ service), Employee Assistance Programme, Refer a Friend scheme, opportunity to join Cycle to Work Scheme and Health Cash Plan, access to discounted gift cards and a quality branded uniform is provided if required.
You may have experience of the following: In Design, Creative Artworker, Graphic Designer, Adobe, Mac Design, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Digital Marketing, Advertising, Photo Editing, Design Assistant, Graphic Design, Web Designer etc.
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