If you have a passion for precision and a deep understanding of flexographic production—from trapping to color separations—this is your opportunity to join a team that values innovation, integrity, and technical mastery.
Why This Role Matters You won't just be checking boxes; you’ll be ensuring the highest quality for global application types, including heat transfers, shrink sleeves, and pressure-sensitive labels. You are the bridge between creative design and flawless production.
What’s In It For You?
- Cutting-Edge Tech: Work with industry-leading tools like Esko Automation Engine, Adobe Creative Cloud, and LabelTraxx.
- Collaborative Culture: Join a fast-paced environment where your feedback directly shapes and improves our production processes.
- Career Growth: We invest in our people through training on specialized prepress software and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Audit & Inspect: Review digital files for technical accuracy, specifically focusing on trapping, overprints, and print-type specs.
- Quality Assurance: Inspect print-ready proofs and verify that artwork matches job tickets perfectly.
- Technical Support: Quality check TIFF/LEN files for plating and manage stepped layouts for both flexo and digital work.
- Team Feedback: Provide daily, constructive feedback to operators to ensure our Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are consistently met.
- Experienced: You have 1–3 years of experience in Flexographic printing (prepress background preferred).
- Detail-Obsessed: You notice the things others miss and thrive in a role where precision is the primary goal.
- Tech-Forward: You are proficient in Adobe Illustrator and ready to dive deep into Esko and other automation software.
- Flexible: You’re a team player willing to support production needs, including overtime or rotating shifts when the mission requires it.
salary: $45,760 - $58,240 per year
shift: First
work hours: 8 AM - 4 PM
education: High School
Responsibilities
- Technical File Auditing: Review print designs to ensure strict adherence to prepress standards, specifically focusing on trapping, overprinting, and print-type specifications.
- Proofing & Preparation: Support the department by preparing and inspecting print-ready proofs for client approval and verifying that job tickets align perfectly with artwork preparation.
- Process Oversight: Evaluate the consistency of standard operating procedures, including typesetting, copy changes, color separations, and digital image corrections.
- Production Support: Quality check TIFF/LEN files for plating and inspect stepped layouts for digital printing.
- Communication & Feedback: Provide daily actionable feedback to prepress operators and production teams to maintain a high standard of excellence.
- Continuous Improvement: Assist in developing new quality protocols, conduct data collection for QC records, and participate in facility-wide improvement initiatives.
- Flexibility: Prepare 1-up files and stepped layouts for both flexo and digital workflows as needed.
The essential functions of this role include:
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Randstad is a world leader in matching great people with great companies. Our experienced agents will listen carefully to your employment needs and then work diligently to match your skills and qualifications to the right job and company. Whether you're looking for temporary, temporary-to-permanent or permanent opportunities, no one works harder for you than Randstad.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.
At Randstad, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
