Flexographic Printer

Flexographic Printer
- Digicon Series 3

**Location**: Ongar, Essex

**Salary**: £30-34k

**Shifts**: 40-48 hours per week
- Shifts to be decided

An opportunity to work for one of the leading label suppliers, They produce custom labels of all shapes and sizes to a wide range of customers across the UK.

**Job Overview**:Operation of new Digicon Series 3 Press - 4 Colour UV Semi Rotary print and die cutting press with finishing capabilities of cold foil, hot foil, lamination, special varnishing, embossing, screen printing and slitting/rewinding.Setting up press, colour matching jobs, checking quality of print and ad-hoc tasks such as laying plates and machine maintenance.

**Responsibilities for the Role**:

- Operating presses to print jobs efficiently and to the highest possible standard.
- Tasks including setting up jobs (using print cylinders, magnetic cylinders and die cutters), mixing inks, colour matching, wash ups, loading material.
- Inputting data into MIS including material consumptions and clocking data.
- To comply with current systems of working including established shift patterns.
- Maximise machine efficiency to achieve estimated times.
- Manage a schedule of work on an hourly/daily/weekly basis & understand the targets set and the importance of your part in the process**.**:

- Keep workstation and work area tidy and organised by taking at least 15 minutes per day to clear down before end of shift.
- Ad hoc tasks when required that may include ink mixing, laying plates and locating material.

**Requirements**:

- Preferably experience with a Digicon but any experience of flexo printing welcome.
- Experienced working within the Print or Packaging industry
- Have excellent attention to detail and be experienced working in a fast-paced production environment
- Expectation to be trained to run other machines also.
- Expect you to meet the estimated times of each job wherever possible.
- Strive to meet an amount of non-conformances: quality defects with jobs that have been printed by yourself.
- Percentage of waste on jobs that you have run: we expect you to strive for 10% or less overall