Color Technician

North Mankato, MN

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Job Description

As a Color Technician with Navitor Specialty Products, you will manages a series of processes and tools designed to help provide predictable and controllable color output across several devices that print in color. The ideal candidate must possess technical expertise of digital prepress and production processes. Provides leadership for production related issues for individuals in the prepress department. Processes relate to producing complex electronic files, proofs and film according to company specifications and quality criteria, which meets customer quality and time requirements, ability to produce and accurately interpret color corrections; understand color management; proper composition of multiple pages and images in image editing software.

Key Responsibilities

Responsible for driving Best Practice Color Management process controls.
Work with and provide guidance to team members to: facilitate color management discussions, build consensus, implement and audit process controls. Monitor, report out, evaluate, take corrective action, and drive needed process controls to ensure a consistent customer experience.
Responsible for communicating barriers to success back to upper leadership in order to meet business unit goals. This position requires a proactive, self-lead and assertive skill set as a leader in order to be successful.
Evaluate new Color Management tools and technologies. You and the team will research, evaluate, and provide supporting documentation including an ROI, installation, implementation and audit to the ROI as applicable.
In this role, you will be a Subject Matter Expert around our electronic software and hardware tools used in the electronic and production workflow. This would include systems/tools such as Prinergy, PitStop, Triton, Spectro Densitometers, ect.
Collaborate with marketing, sales, product managers and other departments to plan, analyze, organize and execute assigned projects to support company-wide creative objectives
Involvement in Continuous Improvement projects throughout the facility
Liaison between design creation & template creation to define and implement process efficiencies
Assist Plant Manager in specification of new processes and production equipment
Create color profiles across digital press platforms
Achieve and maintain color technician certification
Manage a series of processes and tools designed to provide predictable and controllable color output across several devices that print in color
Define customer specific colors and assist in producing press proofs
Support and backup production template creation and implementation
Serve as secondary resource for digital template creation on new products
Liaison between Account Managers and Production to ensure Product Specs meet Customer expectations
Assist in new product configuration and launch
Assist in new customer implementation

Skills/Requirements

2-5 years of related/relevant professional color management experience preferred
Technical college graphics program and/or three years of graphics experience; extensive knowledge of all prep equipment and production processes preferred
Possesses and applies extensive knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of particular field of specialization to the completion of difficult assignments

About Navitor Inc.

Do you thrive on new growth opportunities, value collaboration and hard work, and believe there is always a better way to serve customers? Navitor is the place for you! Navitor is a leader in the dynamic print industry, and we are looking for candidates with the talent and experience to become a part of our company. Join our team of experts who are redefining what’s possible in the printing industry.

We value a work-life balance and the overall well-being of our employees. You'll see that reflected in our comprehensive benefits package. We offer a competitive benefit package including health, dental & vision insurance, life insurance, 401(k) plan, profit sharing, PTO (paid time off), Holiday pay and other benefits that help inspire our employees to stay and grow with us.

Navitor Inc. is one of America’s largest commercial wholesale printers, delivering innovative programs, services and technologies exclusively to our community of resellers. Headquartered in Minnesota and with manufacturing facilities nationwide, Navitor provides print resellers and distributors the industry’s widest portfolio of personalized print and custom business identity products. Navitor is part of the Taylor Corporation family of companies. For more information, visit our website at Navitor.com.

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