Vessel Packaging Co. Hiring for Production Designer at Vancouver, BC Full Time

At Vessel we exist to elevate our customers, vendors and people. The Production Designer is dedicated to supporting our customers day to day, helping them reach their full potential by processing graphics and providing guidance to customers along the way. The Production Designer works closely with many internal teams; including the Order Processing, Customer Relationship, Production and Administrative Teams, as well as external suppliers to provide the best possible customer experience, contributing to continuously improving Vessel’s process.

The Production Designer is passionate about finding solutions to ensure that expectations are met or exceeded as their project moves through the Vessel system and beyond.

A Day in the Life

The Production Designer will prepare graphic files for shrink sleeves, pressure sensitive labels (PSL) and aluminum can production. The Production Designer will work cross functionally with internal teams to provide guidance and status of received customers’ graphic files and find the best solutions for customers.

The Production Designer communicates frequently with partnered print suppliers and manufacturers across Canada to ensure we are working efficiently, continuously improving processes and addressing challenges.

Accountabilities

Create and validate digital and printed proofs

Apply revisions based on customers branding, label material and printing capabilities

Provide guidance to customers

Ensure colours are managed appropriately, considering print production from multiple sources

Organize graphic files, links and ensure version tracking is clear

Meet the customers visual expectations and label suppliers requirements

Consider label application process constraints during the production process

Submit approved files to the print supplier or aluminum can manufacturer

Collaborate with can manufacturers and label supplier partners to stay current with digital and flexo or other printing efficiencies

Voice opportunities and challenges for improvement in processes, collaborating to find solutions

Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Knowledge of and experience with flexography and digital printing processes

Ability to work independently

Experience in managing several customer projects end to end at one time

2 – 4 years industry experience, and/or experience working with a growing company

Must be fluent in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Ability to create repeat prints from original and stock artworks

Ability to create separated artwork files for printing

Experience with multiple platforms (G-Suite, Microsoft Office, NetSuite, Salesforce) preferred

Must Haves

Our company values are what drive our business and keep us on track for success. Below are our core values, and they are the most important qualities we look for in our hiring process, so be sure they speak to you too!

Committed to Better – Show Up, Put In, Improve

Expresses an entrepreneurial soul and actively pursues opportunities for innovation

Leads with courage and integrity, makes space for self and others to take chances

Do The Right Thing – Ownership, Honesty, Humility

Takes ownership and personal responsibility for their actions and accountabilities

Displays and advocates for honest, transparent communication

Authentic & Fun – Team Minded, Respectful, Genuine

Values collaboration and prioritizes building trusting relationships

Work hard play hard, enthusiastic about achieving objectives and celebrating the wins

The perfect fit for this role will come with a capacity to efficiently work within tight deadlines, an enthusiasm for your work and a willingness to take initiative. At Vessel, we believe in the power of teams to reach our goals, and the successful candidate must share that belief with us!

Why we think you’ll like working with us

We have some exciting growth plans up our sleeve, we’d love to have you grow your career with us!

The Production Graphics Lead role is a starting point for building this function of the team out. There is tons of potential for this role to move into a management position, leading a team of awesome professionals if the business needs require it

We are all accountable to support the growth of a collective that is safe, accessible and inclusive. Show up as you are – we believe that diverse lenses are what make us great and are what will allow us to amplify our potential.

Onsite fitness facilities to help you stay balanced or to engage in some healthy competition – choose your adventure!

Flexible health and dental benefits for you and your family after you’ve been with us for three months, additional flexible spending accounts after one and three years

We start with 3 weeks of vacation and go up from there. All of our team members receive a bank of personal hours – sick days, long weekends, or just a “you” day, it’s up to you!

Free parking at all of our facilities and easily accessible via transit

Who is Vessel anyways?

Vessel offers everything from mobile canning to printed cans, pressure sensitive labelling and shrink sleeved cans to our customers. We’ve grown into a one stop shop, which means we’re doing everything from prepping the canning line at dawn to running the labeling lines at dusk. We are owned and run completely independently by a group of friends, our founders. Today, we’re a big team growing across the country to keep the cogs turning and the beverages flowing.

We all share a passion for the brands we work with, and the pride we take in the hard work that we do. If we’ve learned one thing over the years, it’s that in this business, your only limit is your ambition. We’re passionate about pushing our customers to think beyond their current potential, because it means that we do too. When you join Vessel, you’re part of a collaborative, fun-loving and dedicated team that is driven to elevate our industries, communities and people.

Vessel is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to work with our team to create a diverse workplace, which accommodates people of all backgrounds, abilities and identities. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all abilities and backgrounds. Tell us what you need during the hiring process and we’ll do our best to accommodate you. New employees, like all employees at Vessel, will be required to comply with the Company’s Vaccination Policy. The Policy takes into account the possibility that some employees will be unable to become vaccinated for reasons associated with a protected ground under the Human Rights Code and accommodation options will be explored on a case-by-case basis.