Decoration Engineer – Graphic Prepress Specialist

1001 LEGO System A/S; Billund; Hybrid; DKK 420,000 - 620,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and Disability Insurance

Wellbeing programs

Colleague Discount

Annual Bonus

Job summary

LEGO Group is seeking a Decoration Engineer in Billund to transform creative graphics into production-ready artwork for LEGO bricks. You will use Adobe Illustrator and ESKO, collaborating with design, test centers, and production engineers to ensure high-quality prints first time through.

You will drive the graphic preparation flow from approved design to testing, maintaining standards and documenting processes for continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience with Adobe Illustrator, ESKO and production-ready artwork.
• Strong eye for detail to ensure print-ready decorations.
• Ability to collaborate across design, test, and production teams.

Responsibilities

• Use Adobe Illustrator and ESKO to prepare and adapt graphics for testing and production.
• Transform 2D graphics into production-ready artwork that prints with the right warp on LEGO Bricks.
• Prepare graphics by adjusting dimensions, layers and print order to achieve the intended visual result.
• Coordinate the graphic preparation flow from approved design through testing and production.
• Collaborate closely with designers, test center specialists and production engineers to solve graphic and technical challenges.
• Ensure graphic preparation follows established standards, rules and quality requirements.
• Support the test center with graphic adjustments and sparring during test print.
• Optimise and document processes and guidelines, contributing to increased standardisation and smooth production flow.
• Play your part in our team succeeding.

Skills

Attention to detail

Collaboration

Professional proficiency in English

Structured working approach

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

ESKO

Automation Engine

Job description

Job Description Are you passionate about turning creative graphics into production-ready solutions? Join us as a Decoration Engineer and work at the intersection of graphics, printing and manufacturing. Using Adobe Illustrator, ESKO and your technical curiosity, you’ll take approved graphic designs and prepare them for testing and production on LEGO® Bricks. This is a role for someone who enjoys getting into the details of graphic files while also keeping an overview of the full process. You’ll collaborate with graphic designers, test center specialists and production engineers to make sure each graphic is delivered for high-quality print first time through, adhering to guidelines.

Core Responsibilities

• Use Adobe Illustrator and ESKO to prepare and adapt graphics for testing and production
• Transform 2D graphic designs into production-ready artwork that prints with the right warp on LEGO® Bricks.
• Prepare graphics by adjusting dimensions, layers and print order to achieve the intended visual result
• Coordinate the graphic preparation flow from approved design through testing and production
• Collaborate closely with designers, test center specialists and global production engineers to solve graphic and technical challenges
• Ensure graphic preparation follows established standards, rules and quality requirements
• Support the test center with graphic adjustments and sparring during test print
• Optimise and document processes and guidelines, contributing to increased standardisation and a smooth production flow
• Play your part in our team succeeding

Novelty Development is responsible for transforming creative graphic designs into robust, production-ready decoration solutions for LEGO® Bricks. Our work sits between design and manufacturing, ensuring that graphics can successfully move from a two-dimensional design to a high-quality decoration on a physical LEGO® Brick. You’ll join a dedicated team of colleagues based in Billund, working together to bring creative graphics to life. The team prepares and adapts artwork for production while continuously developing and improving graphic decoration processes to create even more possibilities for future LEGO® decorations.

Do you have what it takes? You are structured, positive, and detail-oriented, and you enjoy working hands‑on with graphics. You’re comfortable spending a significant part of your day in Adobe Illustrator, carefully preparing and adjusting artwork to get the details right. Some parts of the work is structured and repetitive, so you appreciate following a defined process while still being curious enough to question, improve and solve problems when something doesn’t work as expected.

In addition, you bring:

• Experience working with Adobe Illustrator; experience with ESKO and Automation Engine is an advantage
• 2+ years of relevant professional experience, preferably within prepress, graphic production, printing or a manufacturing environment
• Experience preparing and adapting graphics for production, with a good understanding of dimensions, layers, print order and graphic quality
• Knowledge of printing technologies and prepress processes.
• Experience with pad printing (Tampo printing) is an advantage, while experience with other printing technologies, such as flexographic printing, is also relevant
• A strong interest in technical solutions and hands‑on problem-solving
• The ability to work in a structured way, follow processes and maintain an overview across several tasks and priorities
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, enabling you to work effectively across design, engineering, testing and production
• Professional proficiency in English
• LI‑HM3

What’s in it for you? Here is what you can expect:

• Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Your workplace:

Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.

Hybrid Working:

Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team. Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer. Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career. Then make it real. Join the LEGO® team today.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building, rebuilding, and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, andhaving fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.