Production Artworker - Signage & Vehicle Graphics

M TWO Search Ltd; Pontefract; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

M y has a role at M TWO Search Ltd focusing on production-ready artwork for signage and vehicle graphics. You’ll work across briefs and supplied designs, ensuring files are print-ready with correct bleed, colour management and scaling.

The position integrates with production and installation teams to see the output through to installation. The ideal candidate understands the end-to-end production process, from screen to printed wrap or sign, and has hands-on experience in signage or vehicle

Qualifications

• Experience in signage, vehicle graphics or wide-format print.
• Proven ability to prepare production-ready artwork.
• Understand production process from artwork to printed/installed output.

Responsibilities

• Take briefs and supplied designs through to production-ready files.
• Perform artwork amends, proofs, scaling, bleed, colour management.
• Collaborate with production and installation teams to ensure final output matches artwork.
• Take ownership of artwork sign-off and workflow as growth continues.

Skills

Signage industry experience

Vehicle graphics experience

Wide-format experience

Illustrator

Photoshop

Tools

Illustrator

Photoshop

RIP software

Wide-format printers

Cutting equipment

Job description

About you

You re already working in signage, vehicle graphics or wide-format print and you know there s a massive difference between making something look good on screen and making sure it actually works once it hits production.

You ll probably sit somewhere between artwork and production. Comfortable in Illustrator and Photoshop, happy taking supplied artwork or a design and getting everything properly set up for print, and you know your way around things like bleed, cut paths, scaling, colour and panelled artwork.

This one really does need somebody from the industry. We re not looking for a general graphic designer who wants to learn print production from scratch.

Your experience

You ll have worked within a signage, vehicle graphics or wide-format environment and have genuine experience preparing production-ready artwork.

That could have been for fleet graphics, wraps, shop signage, wall graphics, exhibitions, large-format print or a mixture of the lot.

Experience around RIP software, wide-format printers and cutting equipment would be a big plus, but the biggest thing is understanding the production process and knowing how the artwork you create is going to be physically produced.

What you ll be doing

You ll be working across a really varied mix of signage and vehicle graphics projects, taking briefs and supplied designs through to files that are ready to go straight into production.

There ll be artwork amends, proofs, scaling, cut paths, bleed, colour management and preparing files across different materials and applications.

You ll work closely with the production and installation guys as well, so this isn t a studio role where you send a PDF off and never see what happens to it. You ll actually see the work you prepare get printed, cut, wrapped and installed.

As the business continues growing, there s plenty of scope to take more ownership around artwork sign-off, workflow and the wider production process.

About the business

They re an established signage and graphics business based around Pontefract, working across vehicle branding, fleet graphics, signage, wide-format print and architectural graphics.

A lot of the work is produced in-house, from artwork and print right through to installation, with projects ranging from individual signage jobs through to national fleet and branding rollouts.

They ve invested heavily in the operation over the last few years as well, moving into significantly larger purpose-built premises to give themselves room to bring more work through HQ.

This hire is another part of that growth.

Next steps

If you re already working in signage, vehicle graphics or wide-format print and you enjoy the production side of artwork

You don t need to tick every single box, but you do need to understand how artwork gets from your screen into actual production.