PrePrint Team Leader (f/m/d)

at  SIG Group

YOU BRING THESE SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

• Good understanding of the rotogravure printing process, including pre-press activities such as cylinder preparation, engraving, and proofing.
• Deep understanding of color theory, color matching, and the use of color profiles to ensure accurate and consistent color reproduction throughout the print run.
• Expertise in preparing and optimizing digital files for rotogravure printing, including trapping, imposition, and file format conversion.
• Understanding of industry regulations and environmental standards related to pre-press and rotogravure printing, ensuring compliance and implementing sustainable practices.
• Analytical thinking & data-driven decision making
• Team management experience
• Advanced level of MS Office knowledge (Excel, Powerpoint, etc.)
• Experience in SAP
• Fluency in business English

SIG COMPETENCIES

We are looking for people who are willing to consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances, employees who create a climate where everyone is motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives. If you actively seek new ways to grow and be challenged, if you develop people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals, SIG is the place for you. To deliver better for our customers, our future colleagues build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions. Finally, we are looking for colleagues who build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Are you someone who applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals? Are you someone who can create new and better ways for the organization to be successful? If the answer is ‘yes’, come and join us.

• Lead the Pre-Print back-office department hands on and operational in daily business;
• Enable and develop the environment for the team to be trained and to grow;
• Motivate and inspire team members by setting a good example for the team;
• Organize regular team meetings, one on ones, conduct annual performance reviews, establish and communicates team goals, deadlines, identify areas of development or improvement of the team members;
• Create and maintain a working environment that is professional, act as mediator and interface between management, stakeholders and team members to facilitate good communication and airing of complaints and escalations;
• Data analysis and checking/controlling of PDF files, Epson proofs, cylinder foot prints, separations, etc. according to current valid quality standards;
• Control and monitor the entire repro/preprint management process. Starts with first design meeting/entry of the design files and ends with delivering of the printing forms/creation of the print order for production;
• Manage cylinder supplier relations with focus on placing cylinder engraving orders, monitor delivery lead-times and issue complaints in case of quality deviations;