Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.
The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.
Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.
The role
The Pre-Press Quality Assurance is responsible for the successful completion of testing while ensuring client satisfaction. This position is expected to help ensure project success to the highest-quality delivery standard within time, cost and scope.
Production Art & Reprographics Quality Controller acts as the quality gatekeeper, ensuring that all packaging final files meet the highest standards, regardless of which vendor is used. They play a crucial role in maintaining client satisfaction and upholding the agency's reputation for quality.
Responsibilities
- Quality Control of all supplied but not limiting to prepress materials
- Checking supplied Masters are fit for purpose and adhere to guidelines
- Checking artwork adapts for size and spec (publication/color)
- Checking translated artworks adhere to local market/language guidelines
- Liaising with Studio, Transcreation, and Account/Project Managers to ensure consistency and quality across materials
Requirements
- +3 years proven QC experience in packaging and print materials
- Distortion or Corrugation experience is an advantage
- Strong experience with Adobe Acrobat and its annotation tools
- Knowledge Offset and other print processes in the packaging graphics industry
- An understanding of prepress production requirements
- Solid computer skills in both Mac/PC environments
- Has the ability to conduct knowledge transfer or training to future QC members
- Has deep knowledge of ESKO Compare tools. Knowledge in other ESKO tools is an advantage
- Has a strong understanding of reprographics, predistortion, various printing processes, substrates, and finishing techniques in Primary & Secondary packaging.
- Deep understanding of color management principles and procedures.
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Diversity & Inclusion
Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging.
We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.
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What We Do
Born to make the best work, brilliantly.
We combine craft insight and technology to bring your creative work to life.
Hogarth was founded 15 years ago and has grown from a start-up to over 6000 people, across 35 cities worldwide and is now part of the WPP family. Our rapid growth continues to drive us forward making Hogarth an exciting place to work and a great place to achieve your career ambitions.
