Production Artist

Job Description

Job Description

PRODUCTION ARTIST

LD Signs (Design Ventures) has produced custom industrial signage for more than 40 years. Clients trust us for quality, precision, and fast turnaround.

THE ROLE

LD Signs is hiring a Production Artist to turn approved customer artwork, sketches, and job specifications into accurate files that our sign-production equipment and shop team can use. This is a full-time, in-person position at our Baytown, Texas location.

This is production art, not an agency branding, social-media, or web-design role. Your job is to make sure the correct wording, dimensions, material specifications, colors, paths, and file version reach production in a usable form.

You will work primarily at a computer using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop while coordinating closely with client service and the production shop. The right person combines strong software skills with practical curiosity about what happens after a file is released.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

- Review work orders, customer artwork, sketches, and source files for wording, dimensions, quantities, materials, colors, finishing requirements, and production method.
- Create, rebuild, and revise vector layouts in Adobe Illustrator and prepare supporting raster artwork in Photoshop.
- Produce accurate print-ready, cut-ready, engrave-ready, and routing-ready files.
- Verify scale, bleeds, resolution, color modes, spot colors, fonts, linked images, cut contours, vector paths, and other output requirements.
- Prepare proofs and revisions, incorporate approved changes, and prevent outdated files from reaching production.
- Ask focused questions when artwork and job instructions are incomplete, unclear, or inconsistent.
- Coordinate with client service and production about material limits, equipment capabilities, finishing methods, and practical file requirements.
- Maintain organized job folders, file names, versions, linked assets, and approved production files.

WHAT YOU BRING

- Strong working proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, demonstrated through work samples or a practical exercise.
- Working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and a clear understanding of vector versus raster artwork.
- Familiarity with scale, resolution, color modes, spot colors, bleeds, fonts, linked assets, and cut paths.
- The ability to interpret measurements, dimensions, written specifications, and detailed work orders.
- Excellent attention to spelling, numbers, file versions, and small visual details.
- The ability to manage several jobs and revisions without losing track of priorities or deadlines.
- The judgment to stop and ask a question before an uncertainty becomes an expensive production error.
- A practical, collaborative approach and a willingness to learn materials, equipment, and shop processes.

Production art, prepress, sign, printing, engraving, routing, or related manufacturing experience is preferred. Strong transferable file-preparation experience and relevant work samples are welcome.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

Success means preparing routine files accurately, identifying missing information before release, keeping proofs and approved versions organized, and reducing preventable rework.

PAY

$18.00-$22.00 per hour, based on relevant experience and demonstrated production-art skills.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply through this posting. We will contact selected candidates about the next step, which may include an application review, a facility visit, a conversation with the team, and a brief job-related work sample.