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Ink Technician

Job Posted: a month ago

Salary: £ Competitive
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Greater Manchester

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Job Description

NEW VACANCY (PK9274)

INK TECHNICIAN

GREATER MANCHESTER / MERSEYSIDE

£32K + Overtime Paid 1 ½ + Pension 4.5% + Healthcare + 22 Days Holiday

4 Week 12 hour Rotating Shifts Days & Nights - Please contact me for shift pattern

My client is a leading flexible packaging manufacturer based in the North West of England.

They are now looking to recruit an Ink Technician to join their team you will be responsible for ensuring that high quality of inks are made and maintained and that your role is conducted in a safe and controlled manner in line with the required standards and operating procedures. You will be responsible for understanding the customer requirements for colour specification and ensuring that they are met to the highest possible standard.

Operate in line with site health and safety, environmental and quality standards including BRC, ISO & A2 environmental.
Make and prepare all inks for production right first time to known data standards and anilox strengths. Identify any ink that has been used and returned ready for subsequent runs. Ensure that your own dispensing key is used at all times.
Maintain a clean, safe working environment, ensuring that all spills are logged and cleaned immediately.
Operate processes in line with lean manufacturing techniques including SMED and the 5S principles
Maximise the use of press returns by ensuring that press returns are always used before virgin ink. Manage activity via the IFS6 programme, ensuring there is enough ink to complete an order, minimising top up requirements to maximise production time.
Ensure there is sufficient ink supply for up to 24 hours. As the production plan is subject to change, ensure the 24 hour threshold is not breached.
Make full use of the eXact spectro, IFS6 and IQC, to reduce press downtime to a minimum.
Log press returns back into the system for future ease of use.
Assist the Printers on press should any minor adjustments be required, making any changes to the system recipe as required.
Maintain the distillation plant and optimise waste inks and solvent, ensuring waste generated is minimised as much as possible.
Assist the Ink Room Manager with other duties as and when required. Specifically, help with the offloading of ink deliveries and support stock takes and re-ordering of ink supplies.Experience:

Forklift Truck license essential/training provided
X-rite equipment trained
Demonstrable knowledge of working with Print Colours
Good understanding of continuous improvement techniques, e.g. lean & 5S
Exposure to quality, health, safety and environmental standards and practices within a production setting
Colour matching experience
Exposure to quality, health, safety and environmental standards and practices within a production setting

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