Automation Specialist

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Location We are offering a hybrid working pattern to combine home and studio, your studio days will be in either Leeds or Manchester, depending which location is closest to home

Working Hours Full Time, Monday to Friday, 38 hours per week, Permanent Contract

Company Benefits 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays + Your Birthday off! Contributory Pension Scheme, excellent training and development opportunities, early Friday finish!

Role purpose

You are an Artwork Automation Specialist, with strong reprographics and retouching skills who plays a key role within our team. You’re part of our enhanced design and artwork process offering through the use of automation, which ensures our services stand out in the packaging world.
With these ideals you will be responsible for creating automation templates of the highest standard. Working closely with the core team is a must to ensure high standards are met and excellent quality is achieved. You will leverage your expertise in automation, reprographics and retouching to streamline the creation, management and optimisation of packaging artwork. Your role will ensure faster time-to-market and brand consistency for our clients.
Supporting and working with the department leads and managers, you will help to deliver key automation initiatives and plans into the studio. You’ll also help identify, champion and drive innovations in technology for continual improvement throughout the business.

1. Quality

  • Responsible for quality assurance in all aspects of automation work
  • Highlight and help resolve any issues ensuring they do not become problems
  • Be a strong brand guardian, ensuring consistency and quality is maintained

2. Process and Procedures

  • Implement automation solutions for the efficient creation and management of artwork
  • Develop and manage workflows for the automated revision of artwork, incorporating the latest reprographic techniques and retouching best practices.
  • Customise and optimise artwork management systems in collaboration with our Technology Pillar
  • Support in the maintenance and development of reference documents such as knowledge banks and active brand guidelines
  • Demonstrate a strong understanding of processes and procedures within the department.

3. Collaboration and Communication

  • Work closely with the teams to understand artwork requirements, ensuring high quality outputs that meet brand and regulatory standards
  • Attend and contribute to team meetings through regular catch up forums
  • Support Aire Global Management and your team with any business developments
  • Establish and escalate timings needed for projects with relevant Production Managers
  • Assist Client Delight team in presentation/demo set up when required, including ability to present to clients in an informative and engaging manner when appropriate
  • Build collaborative working relationships with other departments and cross functional teams within the business to ensure smooth transition from Design to Production Automation
  • Manage own time effectively ensuring that agreed deadlines and delivery of work is achieved
  • Provide regular project detail / updates, ensuring key stakeholders are kept informed and that clear lines of communication with CD team / Production Managers are maintained throughout.

4. Innovation and Technology

  • Proactively seek out key / relevant innovations within the industry and share these
    findings amongst the team to further strengthen our culture for development and improvement
  • Embrace and drive automation and workflow technology within the business
  • Support and champion the implementation of technology to improve efficiency and quality, allowing departments and the overall business to grow further
  • Regularly review and identify areas requiring improvement, and, if necessary, challenge the business to work smarter by escalating your recommendations
  • Actively work closely with the digital solutions team to identify and help support with innovations in technology.

5. Culture

  • To lead by example and always display the core values of the business in everything you do.
  • Be nice, use good honest judgement, see the opportunity, seize the opportunity, delight our clients everyday and make stuff happen.
  • This job holder will act as an ambassador of the company values at all times.

Skills
Highly proficient in Adobe Creative Suite – Illustrator and Photoshop
Demonstrate a keen eye for detail
High levels of organisation
Proficient in file, folder and digital asset management
Prioritisation of high volumes of work to achieve all tasks on time, on brief and on brand

Experience
3+ years industry experience within artwork and packaging creation
Comprehensive guideline / toolkit / knowledge bank creation – strong brand guardianship
Able to follow process and procedure to a high level
Working within a team to drive forward efficiencies in a collaborative manner
Previous experience of working closely with Client Services within an agency environment

Knowledge
An understanding of database systems and technology
Knowledge of print processes and colour management
IT Literate
A good understanding of brand and corporate guidelines and how to follow them

Qualifications
Desirable if educated to degree level or equivalent comparable Graphic Design qualification.

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