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The Estevan Mercury's award winning graphic design team has an immediate opening for a production manager to manage a five person graphic arts department.
The winning candidate will be organized, driven, have a keen eye for details and be an overall team leader.
He/she must be fluent in Creative Suite software with an emphasis on InDesign and Photoshop.
He/she will also have at least five year newspaper layout experience or experience in an equivalent field.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Computer use
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Not applicable
Additional Skills
- Supervise the production of design by technicians or creative design team
Specific Skills
- Produce final designs or illustrations
- Prepare specifications for design
- Consult with clients to establish nature and context of designs and illustrations for reproduction
Work Setting
- Newspaper publisher
Area of Design Specialization
- Advertising
- Visual art
- Publications
- Multimedia
- General graphic design
- Commercial art
Business Equipment and Computer Applications
- Photoshop
- PageMaker
- MacIntosh
- Illustrator