Contract: Production Designer / Calgary

The client, a large Oil & Gas Operator company, is currently seeking an Production Designer

based out of Calgary AB. This is a 6 month contract to start, with potential for extension, subject to start sometime August. The schedule is Mon – Friday, 8hrs daily, 40 hrs weekly. The client currently has a hybrid work schedule, with 3 days in the office and 2 days optional remote work from phone.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Relentless. Tenacious. Curious. If these are some of the ways you describe yourself — we want to learn more about you! Our client is a  Energy Problem Solver — passionate about transitioning North America to cleaner energy while meeting the energy demands of today and tomorrow. If that sounds like a challenge you want to help tackle, we want you to join our team!

Guided by our values of safety, innovation, responsibility, collaboration, and integrity, we’re working to reduce emissions in our own business and help other businesses and industries decarbonize too. We do that by delivering new energy solutions – from natural gas and renewables to carbon capture and hydrogen.  Along the way, we’re helping the local communities we touch become stronger, cleaner and more resilient.

We need bright, open minds to help us view energy problems differently and contribute unique, targeted solutions through their work. Sound like you? Then check us out.

The opportunity: The client’s Communications team is evolving to meet the needs of our growing business. They are in search of a Production Designer to work with our Brand, Digital & Creative team and to support the needs of our broader organization. The team is responsible for:

• Finding ways to elevate our brand and engage with our audiences
• Telling compelling stories through research, content and design
• Sharing a consistent narrative across our communications footprint
• Providing strategic creative and digital communications support to partners
• Recommending appropriate tools and approaches to help teams work smarter, not harder

The successful candidate is a highly creative Production Designer who has knowledge and experience using a broad range of creative digital tools and technologies as they pertain to graphic design for digital and print, responsive web design and motion graphics design. The candidate will play an important role in supporting a wide range of communications activities, delivering high-quality creative solutions as per industry best-practice and standard conventions.

Are you up for the challenge? What you’ll do:

Under the direction of the Creative Lead, the successful candidate will:

• Work collaboratively with designers and content experts to develop creative assets for campaigns, including social, web and print
• Develop engaging presentations for high profile events

• Design and animate motion graphics that can stand alone or supplement existing content
• Support ongoing maintenance and improvements of our corporate brand portal, photo library and templates
• Create templates and automated tools to generate creative assets

Minimum Qualifications:

• A strong portfolio that clearly demonstrates the necessary skills for the role
• A diploma in graphic design, multimedia or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar role
• Very strong organizational and client relationship skills
• Experience designing multimedia tactics to support integrated campaigns
• Experience adhering to and leading creative approach within established brand guidelines
• A high level of expertise in Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, and Acrobat Pro
• Responsive web design experience
• A high degree of proficiency working independently, as well as part of a team
• Strong ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
• Very strong attention to detail and a proven track record of quality assurance
• Advanced user in Microsoft Office, including the ability to create and maintain templates and colour palettes in MS applications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Social media experience
• Experience working in a corporate environment