Desktop operator job description

Review electronic files that are received from clients and check them for thoroughness and completeness in advance of the plate making process. Utilize CTP plate making equipment to prepare plates for press when necessary.
Duties and Responsibilities

Using electronic page layout software (desktop publishing software), color correct files, create template layouts and ensure that output files meet internal and external customer requirements for Offset and digital format.

Determine page layout, accounting for folds, trims, bleeds and gripper, and add crop marks and color bars as necessary.

Preflight files and identify missing or problematic file issues and communicate those issues to the CSR, customer and production personnel.

Load customer supplied electronic files for output, onto the Pre-Press file server.

Create an electronic image of the pages to create manufacturing proofs used during the manufacturing process.

Prepare color proofs for customer review.

Impose images and operate CTP plate making equipment and bending/tabbing equipment to prepare plates for press.

Review job instructions for accuracy and completeness, and if discrepancies are found, facilitate the creation of new instructions with List Services Representative.

Estimate job completion dates and communicate job progress through the relevant production processes. Update production schedule.

Summarize data record counts for various production processes to facilitate billing activities.

Required Skills

Must be able to work with various graphic design and layout software applications commonly used on Mac's and PC's.

Advanced color management skills and the ability to work with different digital file formats are required.

Must have the ability to output digital files to various output devices; must have the ability to continue to learn and use new graphics software on an ongoing basis.

Must have a strong understanding of the offset and digital printing process.

Regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Required Experience

Experience working in a commercial print facility, preferred.

Minimum 5 years work experience as desktop operator/platemaking required.

RRD is an EEO/AA including Vets and Disabled Employer

Whippany, NJ

As a Barclays Physical Desktop Operations, this is an exciting opportunity as you will provide technical expertise to resolve faults and compliance issues with Windows Desktop devices. This will involve liaising with other support teams and engineering, and adhering to the relevant incident, problem, event and request processes.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

Working Flexibly

We're committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers' and clients' needs. Whether you have family commitments or you're a career, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We're flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

* Resolving incidents and problems impacting the windows desktop service
* Liaising with engineering to ensure future releases are reliable and supportable
* Making remediation activities relating to compliance metrics for desktop protection
* Managing of OS and non-OS patching of Windows devices
* Maintaining of GPOs for Live service domains
* Supporting the Appsense-based Windows Desktop privileged access service
* Having knowledge in Windows desktop and laptop hardware components
* Adhering to global IPC management processes

What we're looking for:

* Windows Desktop OS
* Windows Desktop Anti-virus and encryption tools
* MS Office products
* Windows Desktop browsers, IE and Chrome

Skills that will help you in the role:

* Working experience with ITIL
* Microsoft Engineering-related work experience

Where will you be working?

At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live. We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany, you'll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment.