Production Artist

LDSIGNS LLC • Baytown, TX

6d • $18 - $22 • Onsite

About The Position

LD Signs is hiring a Production Artist to turn approved customer artwork, sketches, and job specifications into accurate files that our sign-production equipment and shop team can use. This is a full-time, in-person position at our Baytown, Texas location. This is production art, not an agency branding, social-media, or web-design role. Your job is to make sure the correct wording, dimensions, material specifications, colors, paths, and file version reach production in a usable form. You will work primarily at a computer using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop while coordinating closely with client service and the production shop. The right person combines strong software skills with practical curiosity about what happens after a file is released.

Requirements

• Strong working proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, demonstrated through work samples or a practical exercise.
• Working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and a clear understanding of vector versus raster artwork.
• Familiarity with scale, resolution, color modes, spot colors, bleeds, fonts, linked assets, and cut paths.
• The ability to interpret measurements, dimensions, written specifications, and detailed work orders.
• Excellent attention to spelling, numbers, file versions, and small visual details.
• The ability to manage several jobs and revisions without losing track of priorities or deadlines.
• The judgment to stop and ask a question before an uncertainty becomes an expensive production error.
• A practical, collaborative approach and a willingness to learn materials, equipment, and shop processes.

Nice To Haves

• Production art, prepress, sign, printing, engraving, routing, or related manufacturing experience is preferred.
• Strong transferable file-preparation experience and relevant work samples are welcome.

Responsibilities

• Review work orders, customer artwork, sketches, and source files for wording, dimensions, quantities, materials, colors, finishing requirements, and production method.
• Create, rebuild, and revise vector layouts in Adobe Illustrator and prepare supporting raster artwork in Photoshop.
• Produce accurate print-ready, cut-ready, engrave-ready, and routing-ready files.
• Verify scale, bleeds, resolution, color modes, spot colors, fonts, linked images, cut contours, vector paths, and other output requirements.
• Prepare proofs and revisions, incorporate approved changes, and prevent outdated files from reaching production.
• Ask focused questions when artwork and job instructions are incomplete, unclear, or inconsistent.
• Coordinate with client service and production about material limits, equipment capabilities, finishing methods, and practical file requirements.
• Maintain organized job folders, file names, versions, linked assets, and approved production files.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed