Lithographic Section Leader
Port Talbot SA12
Commutable from Swansea, Port Talbot, Bridgend, Pyle, Porthcawl, Neath, Llanelli, Ammanford, Cross Hands
43,000
Benefits:
- Standardised pension
- Free parking
- Life Insurance
- 32 days of annual holiday
- Enhanced sick pay package
- Excellent training opportunities
This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established, thriving business with a strong customer base who have very recently expanded the site. My client are looking to recruit an experienced Section Leader with a good background in lithographic manufacturing. This business works with a highly recyclable product and with has a varied customer base made up of international businesses, providing excellent job security. This role would be very well suited to a candidate with management experience in a fast paced manufacturing environment.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Lead day-to-day Lithography operations, monitoring performance, risks, technical issues, and improvement actions.
- Act as the dry offset printing SME, maintaining expertise in printing equipment, coatings, inks, varnishes, curing, and process controls.
- Establish and maintain standards for printing, coating, curing, colour management, and print quality consistency.
- Collaborate with Pre-Press, Production, Quality, and customers to ensure artwork, colour standards, proofs, and new product introductions meet requirements.
- Investigate print and coating defects, lead root cause analysis, and implement sustainable corrective actions and reliability improvements.
- Drive operational excellence through SMED, Lean manufacturing, training, machine care, maintenance coordination, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
- Strong practical and technical knowledge of dry offset printing.
- Excellent colour awareness and understanding of print and coating variables.
- Strong troubleshooting and fault-finding skills across printing, coating and curing processes.
- Excellent problem-solving and Root Cause Analysis capability.
- Able to interpret artwork, reprographic information, technical specifications and customer requirements.
- Able to coach and transfer specialist lithographic knowledge effectively.
- Strong collaboration skills, particularly with Pre-Press, Quality, Maintenance, Technical, Procurement and customers.
- Good understanding of Lean Manufacturing, SMED, 5S and continuous improvement principles.
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Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.
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