Specialist, Prepress

Responsibilities

• Reproduce, prepare, validate, and perform quality assurance on customer artwork files for the dry offset can printing process.
• Perform feasibility and preflight checks on all design orders, including complex and high-impact designs.
• Prepare production-ready graphics file packages with optimal spot color separations, trapping, and gapping.
• Ensure all artworks adhere to internal graphics guidelines, Ball print specifications, and customer requirements.
• Maintain high-quality control (QC) across all stages of the graphics workflow, including production, wet proofing, and digital proofing.
• Collaborate with EMEA plants and the central Graphics department to ensure workflow alignment and process stability.
• Provide technical support to the EMEA reprographics studio and act as a regional reference point for complex topics.

Requirements

• University degree in Graphics Technology, Graphic Design, or a related field (substantial professional experience in prepress or packaging may be considered).
• Proven experience in a reprographics or prepress role within an industrial printing or packaging environment.
• Expertise in complex prepress preparation, specifically spot color separation, trapping, and gapping.
• Proficiency in Adobe and Esko software and workflows.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills regarding print feasibility.
• Fluent in English (spoken, read, and written).

About the Company

Ball Corporation is a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium packaging, including infinitely recyclable cans, cups, and aerosol solutions. Guided by our core values—"We Care. We Work. We Win."—we foster a culture of integrity, trust, and inclusion.