Graphics Project Coordinator

Company: The Jel Sert Company
Location: West Chicago
Posted on: May 10, 2025

Job Description:

For nearly a century, The Jel Sert Company has focused on creating high-quality, high-value foods and beverages that help bring people together. Jel Sert is proud of being awarded the Great Place to Work certification along with making Fortune's Great Place to Work in Chicago and Great Place to Work in Manufacturing and Production. We are currently looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our team as an GRAPHICS PROJECT COORDINATOR. If you are looking for a work environment that encourages personal growth, responsibility, and a shared vision for creating incredible products that help create lasting memories, then Jel Sert wants you!

The Graphics Project Coordinator will serve as the primary communication and organizational support for the Graphics Manager and Director of Materials. This requires knowledge of design objectives as well as experience with production workflows for integrations with data management systems.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

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• Collaborate with Graphic Manager to balance immediate and long-term project priorities.
  
• Access, download and organize project files for preparation.
  
• Coordinate artwork production while developing positive, productive, and integrated relationships with members of the Packaging and cross functional teams including Marketing, Legal, Regulatory, Quality, Supply Chain, and key suppliers.
  
• Effectively communicate with suppliers and external designers to manage current project status and requested revisions.
  
• Assist with final proofreading, reconciliation, and completion steps for approved packaging.
  
• Monitor progress to ensure approvals are completed by established deadlines, including frequent follow up with internal cross-functional teams.
  
• Provide access to final project files and imagery for use within and outside of Jel Sert.
  
• Assist with informational input for retailer-specific graphic and structural documentation. (Walmart eHalo, Target Esko, InSite, H2R, etc)
  
• Follow internal standard operating procedures to minimize errors and enable continuous improvement efforts and meet project timing requirements.
  
• Ensure all procedures for client's record retention are implemented and followed.
  
• Assist in review supplier proofs for accuracy and completeness prior to uploading images to digital asset management system.
  
  
  
  
  QUALIFICATIONS
  
  To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
  
  EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
  
  
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  • 3-5 years of relevant work experience within a consumer packaged goods company, private label, project management is required
    
  • Bachelor's degree or certification in relevant field a plus.
    
  • Experience in managing production of graphic and/or packaging components.
    
  • Knowledge of Offset and Flexographic printing required.
    
    
    KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
    
    
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    • Knowledge of artwork development process.
      
    • Strong working knowledge of a wide variety of packaging materials.
      
    • Experience with adherence to brand graphics standards for print.
      
    • Ability to learn and utilize client based digital asset management platforms
      
    • Strong communication skills in order to professionally represent the company with customers and suppliers.
      
    • Exceptional time management, eye for detail, project management, and organizational skills; and the ability to work independently or as part of a team.
      
    • Strong interpersonal skills, approachable, professional, positive and flexible.
      
    • Self-starter and independent thinker with the ability to quickly react to situations.
      
    • Work on multiple tasks and/or projects at once with minimal assistance within a fast paced results-driven environment.
      
    • Proficient with MS Office, especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Suite a plus
      
      
      BENEFITS & SALARY
      
      The minimum compensation for the Graphics Project Coordinator is $51,726 annually. The Jel Sert Company is committed to pay transparency and will provide further compensation information during the interview process. Compensation is determined by a candidate's experience, education, skills, training, and the internal equity within our organization. Actual compensation to be paid will be determined upon an offer. In addition to a competitive compensation package, regular full-time corporate employees of Jel Sert are eligible for our extensive benefits programs that can be reviewed .
      
      PHYSICAL DEMANDS
      
      Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
      
      
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      • Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
        
      • Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
        
      • Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
        
      • Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
        
      • Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position toposition. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
        
      • Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
        
      • Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
        
      • Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
        
      • Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
        
      • Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
        
      • Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
        
      • Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.
        
      • The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
        
      • Discern differences between red/green/amber.
        
        
        WORK ENVIRONMENT
        
        Office, warehouse, and manufacturing environment.
        
        Some travel required to suppliers and press approvals. Estimated up to 10% travel required.
        
        The worker is subject to hazards such as physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts or moving vehicles.
        
        The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions due to office or administrative work.
        
        FOOD SAFETY and QUALITY RESPONSIBILITIES
        
        Follow applicable procedures and work instructions.
        
        Monitor Quality Control Points (QCP) if Applicable QCCP's.
        
        Backup Redundant
        
        IMPACT ON JEL SERT SUCCESS
        
        This job impacts company success in overall effectiveness of packaging graphics across Jel Sert manufacturing.
        

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