• To operate a designated printing press, producing optimum levels of output to quality standards.
• Manage the press and ancillary equipment to ensure optimum uptime/reliability rate and output speeds.
• Manage personnel and materials to optimise the production output from the press.
• Primarily to run any printing press, subject to training, to produce sections to the highest quality and as efficiently as the job and machinery will permit.
• Compliance with all Walstead Group policies, including (but not limited to):
• Health, Safety & Environmental policy, Quality Personnel Policies and related procedures and processes.  

KPI'S

• Ensure optimum output, quality, speed levels and make-ready times as per performance matrix
• Ensure no production time is lost on the machines due to waiting for paper, ink, consumables or personnel when they are within your control.
• Ensure printed sections are stacked and palletised in a neat and tidy fashion, with correct, concise paperwork and transferred to the appropriate binders.
• Achieve minimum material wastage, measured by re-work, shortages, reprints or materials lost.
• Achieve a 0% mistake/error rate – measured by complaints received from external customers.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Specific responsibilities, including (but not limited to):
• Follow job bag instructions, ensuring all crew members understand their function.
• Set up the press to produce job in line with job bag instructions.
• Allocate tasks to crew members and ensure all crew members remain on the press and do not leave allocated tasks without prior permission.
• Keep work area tidy and machinery in good order, reporting maintenance problems to factory manufacturing manager / shift manager in line with quality system
• Quality problems should be recorded on problem logs and the shift manager informed.
• Follow all checklists ensuring time stamps are taken at correct intervals
• Ensure all work is correctly labelled and quarantined procedures are adhered to.
• Communicate all additional work over and above that detailed on job bag to shift manager to ensure additional charges are sought where applicable.
• Perform all other functions and duties as required or requested by the management of the company.
• Operate, set, adjust and maintain the designated printing press as necessary to achieve optimum performance and output to meet the production schedule and performance matrix.
• Ensure all relevant and required information is to hand prior to commencement of make ready.
• To supply the binders with quality sections in a well-presented manner, which optimises the onward transmission process, lorry loading and / or next finishing process.
• Manage your press crew, giving clear instructions and directives to ensure all members work collectively and efficiently. Communicate and enforce Company rules, regulations and procedures.
• Ensure all paperwork pertaining to quality standards are correctly filled in, adhering to all company, department or process control procedures.
• Ensure the complete press crew remains fully and constructively utilised during any and all downtime periods. Optimise the timings of the crews breaks to ensure no lost production.
• Ensure the complete crew throughout the press and surrounding areas maintains a high standard of housekeeping. Ensure personnel adhere to the Company housekeeping policy.
• Ensure that Company Health, Safety & Environment safe working procedures are enforced and adhered to by the complete crew.
• Responsibility to help identify personnel training and development needs such to ensure the optimisation of the press output and department efficiency.
• Responsibility to help identify under-performance or unsatisfactory behaviour of staff to management and assist in gaining improvements.
• Liaise with management to maintain production schedules.
• Highlight any potential failings that could jeopardise the production schedule or cause late delivery to management.
• Carry out scheduled maintenance as required, undertake general cleaning of the press and associated areas with a crew.
• Ensure that the press is maintained, identify repair work, fault find and carry out essential repairs with no or minimal downtime. Liaise and work with maintenance departments on major repairs to ensure no or minimal downtime.
• Must be prepared to carry out other duties or request from a manager within training and capabilities to ensure the smooth running of the department