Hot Foil Printer

Job Title: Hot Foil Printer
Location: Redditch, UK
Hours: Double days - 06:00 to 13:30 Monday to Friday and 13:15 to 22:30 Monday to Thursday
Salary: £30K per annum - TBC
Job Type: Permanent

About the Business:
Our client, a highly versatile specialist in UV security printing, is seeking a skilled Hot Foil Printer to join their team. The company specialises in printing vouchers, certificates, stamps, tickets, and business stationery items.

Key Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be responsible for operating hot foiling machinery, embossing, die-cutting, numbering, sheeting, fan-folding, and sheeting.

Specific duties include:

• Making ready-on composite layouts using supplied dies.
• Setting up to approved standards, checking against supplied film/copy, and referring to job instructions at all times.
• Pulling pass sheets and, upon approval, labelling and retaining them for future reference.
• Running jobs to the standard of the pass sheet.
• Checking quality throughout the run.
• Ensuring the final sheet matches the pass sheet upon job completion and preparing it for the next process.
• Completing paperwork/computer entries to close the job on the system.
• Undoing make-ready, ensuring dies and counterforces are damage-free and ready for storage and re-use.
• Identifying damaged tooling.
• Monitoring stock of consumable/make-ready materials.
• Keeping machinery clean and maintained to as-new standards.
• Conducting guard checks and machine checks as required.
• Identifying machine faults and alerting the manager if unable to resolve them.
• Following the work schedule as directed by the Production Manager and supervisors.
• Ensuring make-ready and run timings meet the expected standards of a fully trained competent operator.

Education and Experience:

• Experience in the offset print industry.
• Proficiency in operating Dimuken foiling machinery or very similar lines.
• Experience running Hunkeler unwinds and rewinds, Tecnau sheeting lines, fan-folding and slitting machines, die cutting, and numbering.
• Effective communication skills in English.

This is an exciting opportunity, if you would like to find out more about this Hot Foil Printer role, please click 'apply'