Graphic Designer

Job Description

Graphic Designer

Wotton under Edge

Up to £35,000 depending on experience

Renishaw is seeking a talented and technically capable Graphic Designer to join the marketing team within our Laser Calibration Products Division (LCPD). Working closely with our Senior Graphic Designer, you will create and develop a wide range of high-quality marketing materials that support our products and global sales.

This is a dedicated graphic design role that requires a strong understanding of professional design principles, typography, layout, visual hierarchy, and brand consistency, combined with practical experience of Adobe Creative Cloud.

We are looking for someone who understands the value of thoughtful design in communicating complex information. The successful candidate will be able to apply strong design thinking to create clear, engaging, and effective communications for a technical engineering audience.

Principal duties and responsibilities

• Creating and producing brochures, flyers, advertisement and other technical documents
• Designing content for digital communications and campaign assets
• Supporting Product Managers with customer facing visuals for presentations
• Creating infographics and diagrams for marketing and sales communications
• Image editing, retouching and asset preparation for different platforms
• Preparing artwork for digital and professional print production in multiple languages
• Maintaining brand consistency across all company materials
• Making amendments and updates to existing artwork where required
• Supporting wider marketing activity and other creative projects as required

Key requirements

• BA (Hons) degree in Graphic Design
• Previous experience working as a Graphic Designer, either industrial placement and/or with industry experience
• We are looking for someone with strong design fundamentals, demonstrable Adobe skills and genuine enthusiasm for graphic design as a profession
• Applicants must be proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly:
  • Adobe InDesign, including paragraph and character styles, master/parent pages, grids, document structure and preparation of artwork for print
  • Adobe Illustrator, including illustrations, icons and diagrams,
  • Adobe Photoshop, including image correction, retouching, resizing of images specific print and digital use

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• A genuine grounding in graphic design principles, including typography, composition, colour, hierarchy, grids and visual communication
• The ability to interpret a brief and turn it into effective visual content
• Strong attention to detail and understanding of typographic pacing, content/narrative flow
• An understanding of RGB, CMYK, spot colours, image resolution, file formats, bleed and print production requirement
• Good organisational skills with the ability to work to deadline and manage multiple projects
• Clear communication skills, with the confidence to ask questions and openness to creative direction and feedback
• An interest in using design to make complex or technical information engaging and easy to understand

Desirable skills

Experience in any of the following would be advantageous but not essential:

• Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro
• Adobe Firefly
• Motion graphics
• Photography
• Presentation design
• Designing technical or complex information for non-technical audiences

Benefits 

When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. ( not available at all sites).

We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join Renishaw Health Trust (Aviva) and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.

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Employment Type:

Permanent

Time Type:

Full time

Requisition Number:

R10252 Graphic Designer (Open)