Prepress Production Artist Job at Nassau Candy in Ronkonkoma

Nassau Candy is a premier importer, manufacturer and distributor of specialty confections, fine foods, and promotional products.

We are currently looking for a passionate Prepress Production Artist with retail packaging experience for our exciting promotional products division in Ronkonkoma!

Must be able to successfully complete projects and thrive in a very faced-paced, time-line driven environment.

The Prepress Production Artist will be responsible for:

• Receiving customer artwork for modification and reproduction in a manufacturing environment
• Coordinating with Order Entry and Customer Service to ensure customer approval.
• Ensuring the highest level of quality of products
• Expediting/ setting up customer orders; will spend time liaising with all departments in Production/ Factory
• Sending artwork proofs to customers
• Supporting factory staff supply needs ie: wrappers, labels
• Administrative duties as needed (Virtuals, uploading repeats, etc.)

The ideal candidate will have the following skills set:

• At least 2 - 3 years of experience using InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Excel in a Production Artist role.
• Experience printing on a variety of packaging including bags, tins, labels, etc.
• Experience with retail packaging
• Solid understanding of the Pantone Color Matching System.
• Knowledge of digital, flexographic, pad printing.
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.

Excellent opportunity to join a well-established and thriving Long Island company!

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer