Printing Production Manager

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PRODUCTION SUPERVISION FRESHTECH Full Time Antigo, WI, US

30+ days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $72,904.00 To $83,844.80 Annually

Job Title : Printing Manager

Reports to: Manufacturing Plant Manager

Job Summary

The Printing Manager serves as the key leader of Freshtech’s printing operations, encompassing strategic planning, coordination, and supervision. The operations include pre-press submittals through finished print of flexible films. This role demands strong leadership capabilities to manage and motivate a team of production staff, while also liaising with cross functional departments, suppliers, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless workflow and execution.

The position plays a critical role in maintaining print quality, production efficiency, and cost control throughout the printing workflow.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Lead and direct press team to ensure successful execution of departmental objectives.
• Recruit, train, coach, and develop employees to ensure a highly skilled and engaged workforce.
• Establish performance expectations and hold team members accountable to safety, quality, productivity, and attendance standards.
• Conduct performance evaluations and provide ongoing coaching and development.
• Address employee relations issues in partnership with Human Resources.
• Lead departmental safety initiatives and ensure compliance with company safety policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Own departmental quality performance, including customer complaints, internal defects, waste reduction, and corrective action effectiveness.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, delivery, cost, and employee engagement.
• Develop, implement, and maintain workflows and standard operating procedures designed with a focus on safety, quality, and efficiency.
  
  When possible, coordinate these workflows with all other Volm facilities using similar workflows for corporate consistency.
• Minimize waste by establishing and ensuring quality standard sand improvement processes are being communicated, followed, measured, andevaluated.
• Serve as the primary liaison between graphic design, customer service, production, and external prepress and plate-making partners to communicate specifications, request quotes, and resolve technical issues. Receive and review incoming design files to ensure they meet requirements for proper trapping, separations, accuracy, and contain proper print requirements. Make and communicate required file changes as appropriate.
• Maintain accurate documentation, specifications, and approved artwork files in accordance with change management and quality control procedures.
• Track departmentmetricson a regular basis and provide regular reports to Leadership Team.
• Prepare and manage departmental budgets.
• Evaluate and recommend equipment upgrades or modifications to improve production capabilities.
• Monitor and communicate press characterization updates to ensure external prepress partners have accurate and current printing capability information.
• Manage relationships with pre-press, platemaking, ink, and equipment suppliers to ensure quality, service, and cost competitiveness.
• Establish and maintain print standards, color management systems, press characterization data, and process controls to ensure consistent print quality across all products and equipment.
• Accountable for achieving departmental key performance indicators (KPIs) related to safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and employee development.

Required Skills and Abilities

• Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify and resolve…