Print Shop/Graphic Designer Job at American Advertising Federation in Leominster

At New England Wire Products Inc., the Print Shop Coordinator/Graphic Designer will support the sales, engineering, and printing teams in creating visually engaging content from client-branded graphics to be displayed on retail fixtures, to internal graphics such as presentations, packaging, promotional material, internal documents.

Duties/ Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the sales team, engineering team, industrial design team, and print/manufacturing department to understand project scope and objectives.
• Format and design graphics, according to clients’ brand identities, to be displayed on retail fixtures, carts, endcaps, wing racks, etc.
• Create dynamic media and marketing materials for NEWP utilizing photography, animations, illustrations, and engineering drawings.
• Maintain and manage content on our website Displayracks.com, as well as periodically updating graphic elements and images.
• Setting up the printing/slitting equipment and coordinating the graphics schedules to meet our production schedule.
• Work with our in-house graphics printing personnel to coordinate production printing runs, ensuring scale, proportion, color, and transparency layering issues are corrected.
• Work to expand our own brand identity to appeal to a broader audience of prospective clients and customers.
• Use UX/UI skills to create intuitive mobile-formatted instruction guides for display assembly in the field.
• Maintain and update a library of graphics and artwork for future revision and reference.
• Create internal graphics such as posters, presentations, documents, forms, etc.
• Performs other graphic/visual related duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Excellence in verbal and written communication.
• Proficiency in the Adobe Suite of programs including Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, Premiere, and After Effects.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite of programs including, Powerpoint, Word, Acrobat, and Excel.
• Ability to work independently and think innovatively.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multiple departments toward multiple goals.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required in Graphic Design, Communication Design, User Experience Design, or related fields.
• At least 1 year of related work or internship experience is highly preferred.