Company description
Saica Group offers sustainable paper solutions for the manufacture of corrugated board and flexible packaging, promoting circularity in waste management. With more than 12,000 employees and a presence in 11 countries (Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Turkey, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United States), Saica Group has four business lines: the production of recycled paper for corrugated cardboard (Saica Paper), waste management and environmental services (Saica Natur), the production of corrugated board packaging (Saica Pack), and flexible packaging (Saica Flex).
Job description
Main Responsibilities/Overall Purpose
The primary function of this role is to be responsible for ensuring right first-time ink supply to all presses 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.
You will also be trained to cover In PMR and be able to support if required, in the mounting and supply of printing plates in accordance with the production plan.
Training will also be provided to offer support if required, on press carrying out the number 2 role.
The main responsibility of the role remains within ink, but the individual will become a flexible support technician who is adaptable to deliver the business needs
Specific Tasks/Accountabilities
* 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 SC ink management 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 48 hours.
* ·Make full use of the exrite spectro, and IQC, to reduce press downtime to a minimum.
* ·Ensure no returns are left at shift end and all are drawdown and logged back into the system for future ease of use.
* Assist the Printers and carry out any minor adjustments as required, making any changes to the system recipe as mandatory.
* Maintain the distillation plant and optimise waste inks and solvent, ensuring waste generated is minimised as much as possible.
* Assist 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.
* When asked, contribute to site continuous improvement projects.
Job requirements
You will enjoy working at Saica if you: Care: Are a team-player, support your colleagues and share your ideas It’s important that you want an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity Value: Have high standards, want to achieve good quality and great service Challenge: You are self-motivated to improve and achieve. You are open and transparent, tell it as it is. Specific skills or experience requirements will be shown in the job description.