Flexographic Printer

Reflexlabels; Telford; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Reflex Group in Telford is seeking an experienced Printer to operate flexographic presses and ensure prints meet customer specifications within deadlines. You will supervise an assistant, manage materials flow, and support a safe, organised production area.

The role includes weekend shifts and a rotating pattern, with a strong focus on quality, efficiency and continuous improvement. Experience in flexographic printing and teamwork is essential.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills.
• Ability to operate or quickly learn to operate printing machines and related software.
• Ability to follow instructions.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Experience in Flexographic Printing.
• Experience meeting SEDEX and ETI Requirements (not essential).
• Experience working within a team with a good standard of communication.

Responsibilities

• Ensure health & safety requirements within the departments are adhered to at all times.
• To ensure that print personnel are operating in a safe manner.
• Be responsible for the operation of the press.
• Minimise downtime and waste within the print department.
• Develop machine performance through troubleshooting and continuous improvement.
• Be responsible for consumables used within the print department.
• Supervise the print assistant and ensure staff have necessary skills.
• Care for equipment and resources with regard to Health & Safety and housekeeping.
• Follow Health, Safety and Hygiene procedures, including BRC criteria.
• Carry out effective shift handovers to maintain quality and minimise downtime.
• Ensure press speeds are optimised.

Skills

Verbal communication

Printing machines

Follow instructions

Organizational skills

Flexographic printing

SEDEX ETI

Teamwork

Job description

Printer

Location: Telford

Position Type: Full-Time / Part Time, Permanent

Working Hours:

1x 24 hours per week 06.00 – 18.00 Saturday and Sunday

1x A rotating shift pattern of week 1: 6.00 – 14.00 and week 2: 14.00 – 22.00

Established in 2002, the Reflex Group is now the largest privately owned print and packaging company in the UK having grown to over 900 employees across 22 sites in the UK and Europe. The company prides itself on quality, efficiency, ethics, and low environmental impact whilst being innovative and dynamic. The company has an opportunity for an experienced Printer at our site in Telford.

Role Overview

The role encompasses the operation offlexoprinting presses, ensuring that designs and printed within a targettimeframeand to the customer specification. To co-ordinate and manage the safe operation of the Press and supervise the assistant ensuring all best practices are adhered too. Also to organise ancillary products/equipment to provide a well organised and safe place of work including the distribution facility for raw materials, WIP and finished goods ensuring materials are available asrequiredfor the next process.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Ensure health & safety requirements within the departments areadhered to at all times.
• To ensure that all print personnel areoperatingin a safe manner
• Tobe responsible forthe operation of the press
• To minimise downtime and waste within the print department departments
• To develop the efficiency of machine performance by effective trouble shooting and implementing improvements using CI techniques.
• Tobe responsible forthe consumable items used within the print department.
• The effective supervision of the print assistant within the operations, ensuring that all staff have the skills necessary to complete their roles to a high and safe standard.
• Take due care and attention of equipment and resources withparticular regardto Health & Safety, hygiene, goodhousekeepingand basic maintenance.
• To ensure that Health, Safety and Hygiene procedures arefollowed at all times, including compliance with BRC criteria.
• Carry out effective shift handovers to ensure continued quality and avoid unnecessary downtime issues
• Ensure press speeds are constantly optimised

Required Skills & Experience:

• Excellent verbal communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills.
• Ability tooperateor to quickly learn tooperatevarious printing machines and related software.
• Ability to follow instructions.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Experience in Flexographic Printing
• Experience meeting SEDEX and ETI Requirements (not essential)
• Experience working within a team with a good standard of communication