Ink Technician

Taylor Higson is seeking an Ink Technician in Wigan, UK, offering a salary of £31,500. The role involves preparing inks for production, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, and optimizing processes using lean manufacturing techniques. Candidates should have a Fork Lift Truck license and experience with print colors. The position includes opportunities for overtime and benefits such as progression opportunities and a sick pay scheme.
Job Description

Ink Technician

£31,500

Wigan

We are working with a flexible packaging company in Wigan. Due to growth, they are now seeking an Ink Technician to join their team!

You will work on the continental shift pattern, with a mixture of days and nights

The Role
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• When asked, contribute to site continuous improvement projects.

The Person
• Fork Lift Truck licence 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

Salary & Benefits

A generous base salary of £31,500 is available for this role. Overtime is regularly available and is paid at an enhanced rate. Plus, benefits including genuine progression opportunities, employee of the month, company sick pay scheme after 12 months’ service, cycle to work scheme, eye test vouchers and more!