Flexographic Press Manager

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.