Flexo Prepress Manager

Specific Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

• Manages and directs prepress ink, solvent, parts rinse and wash, and blade assembly operations and hourly staff to achieve defined goals and KPI targets.
• Manages fire safety initiatives and 6S activities in ink room, ink warehouse, washing equipment, and prepress room including hazardous material and recycle waste; ensures all standards meet company quality and production goals for proper grounding, storage, and handling.
• Manages all associated inventory for supply associated with ink warehouse, press ready and plate manufacturing.
• Communicates intra and inter departmentally the daily, weekly, and monthly performance of KPI to provide visibility of improvements and weaknesses experienced due to prepress.
• Promotes, facilitates, and enhances training efforts and programs for ink technicians, production workers, and operations to ensure all standards meet company quality and production goals.
• Promotes, facilitates, and enhances maintenance and preventative maintenance efforts and programs to ensure all standards meet company quality and production goals.
• Serves as the ISO process owner of Prepress to standardize process flow and continuous improvement.
• Schedules repairs and preventative maintenance based on employee safety, customer demand, and line efficiencies; orders equipment and maintains necessary spare parts.
• Proposes, coordinates, and implements new technologies and methodologies in the industry and presents this research for evaluation by plant management.
• Ensures the quality of product by directly guiding and working with the PE, GA, Ink Development, QA, QC, shift supervisors, support staff, operators, customer service, and sales; investigates and reports flaws in the system relative to correction action communicated to the customer.
• Supports any efforts to maintain high-quality standards as defined by ISO and other plant-wide initiatives to help the parent-company, local company, and the departments.
• Demonstrates proficient computer skills, in particular Microsoft Office; and ability to learn other company-implemented systems.