Art Department Manager

Alternate Job Titles: Art Director

FLSA Status: Exempt

Job Summary

Plans, directs, coordinates, and administers all activities of the art department including sketch art, production art, and finished art presentation. Determines quality level and establishes work procedures and materials for each level of work. Develops core of outside freelance artists, assists sales and marketing department with estimates, sketches, dummies, samples, or other materials for presentations by performing the following duties personally or through assistant personnel.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Review all sketch requisitions and accompanying materials, obtaining additional information from the customer and sales department as needed.
• Confer with salesperson or customer regarding background information, blueprints, specifications, objectives, presentation approaches, styles, and related factors.
• Formulates basic layout design concepts, or refers this task to Art Department Supervisor.
• Assigns and directs staff members to develop design concepts into art layouts and prepare layouts for printing.
• Assigns and expedites flow of work, and provides direction to art department personnel.
• Establish priorities for completion of various projects. Provide estimates to the sales department and Estimator, within established budgetary and time limits.
• Reviews, approves, and presents final layouts to customer or sales department for approval.
• Marks up, pastes up, and finishes layouts to prepare layouts for printing. Draws illustrations.
• Performs duties of those supervised.
• Prepares departmental budget and monitors expenditure of funds.
• Approve all requisitions for departmental supplies and expenses.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Responsible for the overall direction, coordination and evaluation of supervisory and non-supervisory personnel. Carries out leadership responsibilities in accordance with company policies, procedures, safety, and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning assisting, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university with emphases on commercial art, computer graphic design; or three to five years of screen printing and/or digital imaging art department experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Strong skills in work planning, scheduling, and must have good judgment of color, design, layout, and print specifications.

Language Skills

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, customers, and employees.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations of printing jobs.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit or stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, heat, fumes, and toxic chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Some independent travel is required.