Engineering Project Manager, Prepress Technologies

🔥 12 hours ago

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $99.1k - $158.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤓 Technical Project Manager

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RR Donnelley

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

RR Donnelley is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions that elevate engagement across the complete customer journey. The company offers the industry’s most trusted portfolio of creative execution and world-wide business process consulting, with services designed to lower environmental impact. With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD brings the expertise, execution, and scale designed to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact.

📋 Description

• Lead end-to-end planning and implementation of technical prepress and color management projects across multiple business units • Manage software workflow upgrades, system migrations, and enterprise-wide technology rollouts • Develop, maintain, and optimize prepress automation using Kodak Rules-Based Automation (RBA) and Enfocus Switch • Establish and maintain enterprise-wide color management specifications, standards, and guidelines • Lead print process standardization across digital, proofing, flexographic, and offset printing operations • Perform digital, proofing, and offset press color assessments and custom color/ICC profile data modeling • Ensure consistent color reproduction across substrates, output devices, and geographical locations • Oversee and optimize prepress systems centered on Kodak Prinergy and Esko workflow environments • Maintain technical and operational expertise in flexographic and offset plate technologies, imaging devices, and CTP output systems • Troubleshoot complex technical prepress and color issues and drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions • Manage vendor relationships for software, hardware, plate materials, and measurement equipment • Lead technical evaluations, specifications, and project delivery for capital equipment and software purchases • Partner with Operations, IT, Quality Assurance, and Procurement to align technical investments with business objectives • Manage estimating, capability analysis, and implementation of equipment additions and improvements • Track assets, capabilities, condition, age, and replacement plans across the worldwide manufacturing platform • Create models and testing protocols to compare new equipment technologies and facilitate asset selection

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Process, Mechanical, Engineering, or a degree related to Manufacturing Management is preferred • Minimum of 5 years of related experience • Experience in prepress operations, color management engineering, or graphic communication project management • Proven track record managing complex cross-departmental technical projects, software upgrades, and multi-site implementations • Experience evaluating, negotiating, and managing third-party vendor contracts and capital equipment procurement • Ability to execute capital projects by managing employees, equipment manufacturers, and suppliers remotely and onsite • Ability to manage estimating, capability analysis, and implementation of equipment additions and improvements • Ability to develop, utilize, and update complex spreadsheets and project management tools • Ability to track assets, capabilities, condition, age, and replacement plans across the worldwide manufacturing platform • Ability to create detailed models and testing protocols for comparing new equipment technologies • Proven ability to develop relationships through networking within and outside the company • Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word proficiency required • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Advanced proficiency with Kodak Prinergy • Hands-on experience with Kodak Rules-Based Automation (RBA) and Enfocus Switch • Deep expertise in enterprise color management, color measurement devices, spectral data analysis, ICC profiling, press characterization, raster image processing, G7, ISO 12647, and FIRST • Strong operational knowledge of flexographic and offset print processes, plate-making technologies, and proofing hardware/software • Successful completion of a pre-employment background and drug screen

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage • Paid time off • Disability insurance • 401(k) with company match • Life insurance • Voluntary supplemental insurance coverages • Parental leave • Adoption assistance • Tuition assistance • Employer/partner discounts • Potential participation in a bonus, commission, or incentive program, depending on the role • Remote and onsite work arrangements for capital projects