Responsibilities

• Review job sheets against provided art to verify image sizing, pages, folds, color settings to ensure accurate job processing.
• Review customer-provided work, troubleshoot and provide feedback to Account Managers to relay to their customers.
• Perform digital prepress functions including: preflight incoming jobs; check for appropriate color format, fonts, and graphics for quality and correct formats; adjust and manipulate files including photo adjustment/enhancement, color conversion (RGB to CMYK) and export files using Adobe Creative Suite.
• Utilize Pitstop to preflight and fix files and update and maintain Pitstop actions.
• Determine page layout, accounting for folds, trims, and bleeds, and add crop marks and bleed where needed.
• Utilize YellowDog-standard file naming conventions to send press-ready documents to the department’s Fiery servers.
• Collaborate with print specialists to produce jobs.
• Order paper and communicate with the production team on deliveries.
• Serve as a technical resource for digital printing and communicate with Account Managers on technical issues as needed.
• Quality check responsibilities.
• Offer support to production as needed and perform other duties as assigned.

Required Skills and Abilities

• Strong preflight, design, and layout skills.
• Understands print production processes, color management, file preparation, and prepress workflows.
• Experience working with software including Adobe Creative Suite, Fiery Command WorkStation, Enfocus PitStop Pro, and Quite Imposing.
• Proficient in office and business applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Google Docs, Gmail, Google Drive, and DocketManager.
• Excellent organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to work efficiently and accurately in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects while meeting established deadlines.
• Self-motivated and resourceful, with the ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.
• Effective and accurate verbal and written communication skills.
• Maintain a positive and professional attitude toward daily work, clients, and co-workers.
• Act as a team player and willingly lend a hand to co-workers, even when the work falls outside of your normal job responsibilities.
• Proficient in office applications (i.e., Google Workspace) and scheduling/production management systems (i.e., DocketManager), or similar software.
• Must love dogs.

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk working on computers.
• Professional office with moderate noise levels.
• Must be able to lift 25 pounds at times.
• Occasional paper cut may be part of the job.

Education

• High school diploma or associate’s degree.
• 3+ years of relevant prepress experience or in a related field.
• Knowledge of the printing industry is preferred.

Why work with us

The YellowDog team is a hearty mix of dreamers, doers, and makers. We offer training to develop the technical and managerial skills necessary to enhance your career as well as the following benefits:

• Competitive pay based on experience ($22.00–$28.00/hour)
• Company-subsidized health insurance
• Dental and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid holidays
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and sick leave
• Paid quarterly volunteer outings
• Complimentary access to local events
• Annual employee printing allowance
• Dog-friendly workplace
• Snacks

Schedule:

• Full-time
• Monday to Friday
• 8 hour shift (in person)
• In-person
• No weekends