Sr. Print. Operator

About us

Contrado started in 2002 from the kitchen of our founders Chris and Fran. Since then, we’ve grown rapidly and have proven to be established leaders in design and print manufacturing.

Contrado means ‘make and deliver together’ and we’ve proudly built a strong community of creatives who are driven by this value.

Our platform enables creatives to sell art and build their brands while giving like-minded consumers the chance to find unique, designer products made to last.

We print original designs on a range of premium quality products from homeware to fashion and each piece is sustainably handmade to order inside our one-stop production house within 24 hours.

We’ve grown from a few people to 160 and we now operate in 14 countries, but we still believe in the same values as day one.

The Role

We are a close-knit team of 6-10 people outputting prints from our various print rooms for our production teams and makers in our warehouse space in Park Royal NW10.

You will be part of a growing, hardworking team, assisting the print room supervisor in the operation and maintenance of our equipment and stock, ensuring print room is clean and tidy at all times. Helping us improve accuracy and efficiency of our processes.

Join our team to focus on our core print values of BEST QUALITY, BEST COLOUR & BEST EFFICIENCY

What you will be doing:

- Correctly loading media into our range of têxtile and sublimation printers.
- Pre-emptive weekly maintenance routines of all printers
- Ensuring print room is kept clean and tidy at all times
- To be trained up for multiple operational positions throughout our various print rooms and stations
- There is an element of administration like stock control and full duties in relation to packing and supporting work in relation to the manufacturing and workspace.
- Quality Control will be an area of responsibility.
- Waste control will be an important part of the role - recycling, getting the right waste in the right bins and coming up with idea to management to reduce waste and re use waste for good purpose
- We positively encourage new ideas and welcome your contribution to improve and develop our processes.
- Where needed at times you will be required to help out in other areas of the business.
- Regular but fair weekend shifts required. Overtime requested when needed

Essential Skills - Abilities:

- Experience in wide format printing, têxtile printing, dye sublimation printing, pigment printing, UV flatbed, reactive printing/finishing, latex printing
- Experience with Windows, navigating folders, and flawlessly handling digital files
- Experience with a reactive print workflow, using industrial belt printers, industrial steaming machines, industrial washing will be beneficial
- Eager and able to learn new processes and techniques.
- Tidiness and neatness
- Join our team to focus on our core print values of QUALITY, COLOUR & EFFICIENCY

Experience
- MUST HAVE 2 years of Print machine experience
- Colour profiling experience beneficial

About us

Contrado started in 2002 from the kitchen of our founders Chris and Fran. Since then, we’ve grown rapidly and have proven to be established leaders in design and print manufacturing.
Contrado means ‘make and deliver together’ and we’ve proudly built a strong community of creatives who are driven by this value.

Our platform enables creatives to sell art and build their brands while giving like-minded consumers the chance to find unique, designer products made to last.
We print original designs on a range of premium quality products from homeware to fashion and each piece is sustainably handmade to order inside our one-stop production house within 24 hours.

We’ve grown from a few people to 160 and we now operate in 14 countries but we still believe in the same values as day one.

Inclusivity, Diversity & Fairness Statement
We are a united and mixed bunch here at Contrado. We find and nurture talents in so many people for the benefit of all of us. In addition, we work hard to create a representative, inclusive and friendly team. We share different experiences, varying perspectives and backgrounds, and combine them to make for better lives and workplace. A positive approach to fairness, creates a better experience for our customers too, because we are a reflection of each one of them, and they like us more for it. We are fair and even in all areas such as gender, race, disability, colour, religion or belief, national / regional origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or parental status.

How to apply
- This is a key position and we’re curious to know why you think you’d be a good fit.-
- Thanks and good luck