Flexographic Press Manager

Texas Poly Inc; Euless (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Ontario Trillium Foundation is seeking an experienced Press Manager to lead our wide-web flexographic printing team. You will oversee daily production schedules, ensure strict quality standards, and optimize print setup and execution on flexible film substrates.

This role emphasizes lean processes, 5S, safety compliance, and team development across shifts, with a focus on minimizing scrap and meeting client specifications.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a flexographic press team on wide-web presses.
• Knowledge of color matching, registration, and tension control on flexible substrates.
• Ability to optimize print setup and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Oversee production schedule, press setup, run troubleshooting.
• Manage daily maintenance, preventive maintenance coordination.
• Lead safety audits and enforce OSHA and material safety protocols.

Skills

Team leadership

Quality control

Lean manufacturing

Press operations

Safety compliance

Job description

We are seeking an experienced and driven Press Manager to oversee our wide-web flexographic printing operations. In this role, you will lead our flexo press team, manage daily production schedules, enforce strict quality standards, and optimize print setup and execution. You will play a pivotal role in maintaining equipment, minimizing scrap, and ensuring our packaging films and materials meet the exacting aesthetic and performance demands of our clients.

Key Responsibilities

1. Production & Print Quality

• Operations: Manage daily setup, operation, and troubleshooting of wide-web flexographic presses.
• Quality: Maintain precise color matching (spectrophotometry, Pantone), registration, and tension control on flexible film substrates.
• Scheduling: Partner with production planning to optimize print runs, changeovers, and press utilization.
• Efficiency: Minimize scrap, waste, and ink consumption to lower production costs.

2. Team Leadership & Development

• Supervision: Lead, coach, and support operators and technicians across all shifts.
• Training: Implement SOPs and cross-training to build technical bench strength.
• Culture: Promote a positive, accountable environment centered on growth, integrity, and teamwork.

3. Technical & Maintenance Oversight

• Maintenance: Partner with maintenance to manage PM schedules for presses, dryers, ink systems, and auxiliary equipment.
• Process Optimization: Apply Lean and 5S principles to streamline workflows and ensure an organized, efficient floor.
• Vendor Relations: Coordinate with plate, ink, and substrate suppliers to ensure all materials strictly meet press specifications.

4. Safety, Quality & Compliance

• Safety: Enforce OSHA, LOTO, machine guarding, and hazardous material protocols.
• Quality Audits: Perform rigorous in-run checks (barcodes, seal integrity, surface tension, solvent retention) to minimize defects and returns.

Preferred Qualifications: English-Spanish Bilingual proficiency is an advantage

Work Schedule:

• Core hours are 7 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday. Additional hours including some Saturdays may be required based on workflow
• Position is Salary, OT exempt

Work Environment and Physical Demands: This position is in an active factory. While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts, and is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals (masks and gloves are available for employee use). The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls, and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to push, pull, sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, smell, talk and hear. The position involves continuous standing and walking for up to 10 hours per day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds without mechanical assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

All factory employees are required to wear appropriate safety footwear at all times.

Employees must be 18 years old and must be authorized to work in the US.