Floor Support Production Artist

Lakeshirts • Detroit Lakes, MN

3d • Onsite

About The Position

This is an on-site position in Detroit Lakes, MN. Working collaboratively with customers and over 60 artists, the company strives to continually stay on-trend, creating over 200,000 new designs in the last 5 years and 26,000 design modifications yearly. The company utilizes techniques including screenprint, embroidery, applique, heat press, foil, acid gel, softwash, sublimation, and more. The company is looking for Floor Support Artists to work under the direction of the Art Manager to provide art support to the screenprint production floor and to help identify issues in order to uphold and maintain the standards within each division.

Requirements

• 2-year or 4-year degree in Graphic Design with Adobe Illustrator proficiency required
• Must be detail oriented with excellent computer skills
• Ability to multi-task
• High attention to detail
• Independent decision making skills with reason and good judgment
• Ability to work well in a team
• Must be reliable, responsible, flexible and take direction well
• Must be able to handle multiple interruptions and follow through
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral
• Employee must be able to see and hear, read and write.
• Requires good judgment, people-oriented, flexible organized diplomatic, reliable, enthusiastic, courteous, helpful, patience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the burning of screens if they are damaged or missing from the screenprint cell
• Update designs as necessary to follow Lakeshirts standards
• Work with production to create the best quality product for our customers
• Record errors to help with artist knowledge in creating production-ready files
• Actively reduce waste in department/lean processes
• Work closely with leads to uphold standards to be communicated with artists/production
• Communicate inconsistencies in standards to the Art Manager
• DTS (Direct-to-Screen) sending, Namedrop, Proofing, Art Comps

Benefits

• health and life insurance
• voluntary benefits like dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and critical illness & accident coverage
• 22 paid days off during the first year
• Profit Sharing
• 401(k) program
• Subsidized cafeteria
• Employee merchandise discount
• Flexible Work Schedules

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree