Product Development Coordinator

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Title: Product Development Coordinator

Reports to: Product Development Manager

Summary: Performs, processes, maintains and improves all technical aspects of customers' graphics projects to include art files/designs, implementation of new jobs/products, materials and responsible technical customer relationship. Responsible for overseeing project timelines, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring successful project completion. Ensures the integrity of press-side customer approvals in the plant and guarantee availability of standards for color and copy for all products.

• Effectively coordinates and collaborates strongly with internal and external customers regarding new, improved, or changed designs, organizing all project activities to guarantee successful new product launches with no press impacts and long-term cost efficiency, on-time, and in full compliance with customer's requirements.
• Promotes active customer involvement by processing new designs and printing substrates to maximize production to customer satisfaction while keeping product development costs to a minimum.
• Effectively coordinates and communicates with Customer regarding new, improved or changed designs
• Ensure that all relevant stakeholders from operations are fully informed and aligned on production specifications and requirements. Facilitate regular meetings and communication channels to guarantee that everyone involved understands and agrees on the necessary details for successful production.
• Request and approves development of new inks with suppliers in alignment with customer's requirements and process needs for optimal print performance, applying stringent controls to color and ink issues.
• Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of print and converting fundamental principles and techniques, specially offset, gravure, inline and offline die-cutting, Hot-foil stamping and fold/gluing.
• Works independently to deliver the highest quality products.
• Knows how to determine optimal print sequence in partnership with operations, adjust trappings and overprints to prepare stepped files with necessary printing marks for process control, and coordinate efficiently with prepress providers to maintain customer artworks and combine process requirements.
• Estimate tooling investment for new projects manage approvals with customers or through technical account team.
• Organize on press approvals with customers. Support color matchings and coordinate preparation of color booklets with customer signatures
• Manage project timelines and on time delivery of tools for first productions
• Excellent communication skills are required and high business ethics when dealing with customer at their location.

• Order, design and maximize use of all cylinders required to meet production needs. Utilize existing cylinders and designs whenever possible to control costs.
• Secure all pertinent information relevant to the decision-making requirements of new vs. old cylinders.
• Effectively relate new designs to cylinder vendors to secure highest quality equipment to meet production needs.
• Design and implement tooling needs to insure availability to production with fewest down- and make-ready times.

• Effectively utilize advanced technologies to implement computer solutions to improve the graphic function.
• Work with all levels of production teams to gain insight into ongoing printing issues as they relate to current cylinder and tool usage. Utilize test materials to determined exact color matching and design flow working with various production personnel to insure full compliance with customer…