Onsite Prepress & Production Workflow Specialist

Allegra Marketing; Urbandale (IA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Employee discount

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Vision insurance

Job summary

Allegra Marketing Print Mail is seeking an onsite Prepress and production workflow teammate in Urbandale, IA. You’ll prep files for presses, manage proofs, and support variable data and automation using the team’s tools.

There’s room to apply design skills with light layout in Adobe apps. If you enjoy turning customer assets into press-ready outputs and improving handoffs, this role fits you.

Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat for file preparation.
• Experience with print production or prepress, including file prep, bleeds, color, and imposition.
• Comfort working with data such as spreadsheets, mailing lists, and merges.
• Ability to take customer files from Canva and AI image tools and make them press-ready (resolution, bleed, color, fonts).
• Accountability for follow-up: if a customer has not approved a proof, you check in and continue until the job moves forward.
• Detail-oriented approach, with an understanding that mistakes in print and mail are expensive.
• Willingness to learn new software and cross-train on printing equipment.

Responsibilities

• Check, correct, and prepare customer files for print.
• Send jobs to digital presses through EFI Command WorkStation (Fiery).
• Use Xerox FreeFlow Core, AI tools, and existing software to automate the handoff from customer order to press.
• Manage the Pressero customer web portal, including building variable data templates for customer-created customized documents.
• Set up mail merge and variable data jobs in InDesign.
• Process customer mailing lists and prepare data with postal barcodes using mailing software.
• Own the proofing workflow: send proofs through Plan Profit (Salesforce), follow up with customers until approval, and ensure jobs do not stall waiting on artwork.
• Coordinate with outside vendors to find and order products not produced in-house.
• Run pre-production quality review by approving files through the pre-press quality check.
• Cross-train on printing equipment to run jobs when needed.
• Complete occasional light design and layout work in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

Skills

File preparation

Attention to detail

Layout sense

Data handling

Tools

EFI Command WorkStation (Fiery)

Xerox FreeFlow Core

Pressero

Plan Profit (Salesforce)

Canva

AI image tools

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Acrobat

Job description

Allegra Marketing Print Mail is seeking an onsite Prepress and production workflow teammate in Urbandale, IA. You’ll prep files for presses, manage proofs, and support variable data and automation using the team’s tools.

There’s room to apply design skills with light layout in Adobe apps. If you enjoy turning customer assets into press-ready outputs and improving handoffs, this role fits you.