POSITION: Prepress Coordinator
DEPARTMENT: Production
REPORTS TO: Group Director, Production
LOCATION: Downtown Toronto
STATUS: Full-time
APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 12, 2009
Position Summary:
St. Joseph Media is Canada's third largest magazine publisher with brands including award-winning titles such as Toronto Life, Fashion, WeddingBells, Mariage Quebec, WHERE Canada magazines, Canadian Family, and Quill and Quire.
This is a full-time position in the Production Department and requires a candidate who is capable of preparing InDesign files for prepress, placing fractional ads, and administrating our prepress process/system for all of our titles. The Prepress Coordinator will coordinate proofs, track revisions, preflight editorial files and perform some ad tracking duties. He/she is also responsible for maintaining the prepress equipment, including an Epson printer and a Canon Imagesetter. This position may require non-standard hours as necessary, i.e. 10am - 6pm or 11am - 7pm.
Responsibilities:
• Assembling, placing ads and preflighting editorial pages for all magazines
• Trouble shoot any problems with images, colour swatches
• Monthly colour calibration of Art Department computers
• Traffic images to outside prepress vendor via FTP
• Maintain job records in FileMaker database, traffic editorial PDFs through prepress system
• Administrative duties for Ad Portal as necessary
• Cross-train with Production Coordinator and track ad material when necessary
Qualifications and Requirements:
• Previous experience with Adobe CS2-CS4 applications (Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop)
• Familiar with a Mac OSX, Epson proofer, back-up systems
• Proven organizational and interpersonal skills
• Experience using FileMaker Pro & Enfocus PowerSwitch an asset
• Ability to meet and manage tight deadlines
The successful candidate will have:
• Graduate of a Publishing/Media Studies program
• Previous experience in a publishing/prepress environment
• Previous experience working in a PDF workflow preferred
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Good collaborative skills, able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks
Interested candidates please forward your resume to:
Email: hr@stjosephmedia.com, please indicate the position you are applying for in the subject line.
We thank all applicants, however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.
St. Joseph Media
111 Queen Street East, Suite 320, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5C 1S2
- Location: Downtown Toronto
- Compensation: TBD
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