Printed Packaging Prnt Development Technician

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies on an ongoing basis.
More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature. It is therefore in your interest to email your CV, as a Word document, depending on your sector, to:

• Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk
• Head of Print recruitment – Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk
• Head of Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk
• Board level, account management, and all levels of sales vacancies – George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector. For example, a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management. In fact, we have over 30 specialist categories.
Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or in the near future as soon as a good match to your skill set and experience becomes available.

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In order to ensure we are able to achieve all of our regulatory requirements, product relocations, brand launches, design changes and to support our sales growth strategy, a secondment opportunity is now available based within the Nottingham Manufacturing site. The main duties of the role of Print Development Technician include:

• Detailed planning, coordination and supervision of strategic and local brands in regard of the technical realisation of printed packaging materials
• To act as a consultant to Central Marketing, Regional Marketing and design agencies to optimize designs for economic production
• The creation of artworks and standardisation of brand designs
• The determination of print standards and specifications (print method, colours, ink maker, tool suppliers)
• Specifying the print source and method of printing and printer in conjunction with the Purchasing Department
• Approval of the first print run
• Qualification of new printers world wide

The successful applicant will be highly organised with good project management and communication skills and whilst some training will be provided, an understanding of company processes such as AGP, Purchasing, Project Control and Co-ordination, packaging Development and Customer Services would be an advantage. The candidate should be able to operate effectively as part of a team in a high-pressure environment. Travel within the UK and overseas will be a requirement of the role.

Applicants will have ideally completed professional training or a degree in print technology with a minimum of 2 years experience in a similar role.

A high level of IT skills within Microsoft Office packages and a base knowledge of Adobe Illustrator / Photoshop are desirable. An understanding of data based programs would be a distinct advantage.

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