Print Production Officer

Job Description:

The job purpose is to deploy the print quality improvement strategy decided by the Packaging Technology Manager in order to :

Support Print Production Manager vision, process & strategy

Qualification/audit of current & new printers (targets, process, KPI’s)

Deploy the print quality improvement strategy & optimize the print quality to the state-of-the-art, whatever the print technology

Deploy process and standards for print quality and color management.

Control & monitor KPI on pack rendering consistency & quality.

First Print scoring and image profiling

Prepress and print technology development projects

Co-manufacturers evaluation, process, monitoring & KPI's

technical support for the graphics team

Context :

- Deploy our global print strategy

Scope :

- Regional: APAC

- All Mars Petcare brands managed by Royal Canin teams

- All pack technologies

Interfaces :

- Worldwide Graphics partners: repro & printers and tool makers &

ink suppliers

- Internally: Graphics Production, Supply team, Packaging

commercials, Packaging SQA

Ways to operate it :

1. Engage with regional repro and printers

2. Color Profiling

3. Day to day mission

To benchmark regional prepress, print technics and color management by technology intelligence

To manage Graphic Partners improvement and performance, building up a trustful relationship

To deploy the rules and ways of working of Royal Canin internally and externally,

To manage projects as technology deployment

Job Specifications/Qualifications

1. Education & Professional Qualification:

- 4 years Minimum of technical experience on Packaging printing

technology (in printer, or repro house)

2. Knowledge/Experience:

Be familiar with Color, Prepress, and Print technics

4 years of professional experience (graphic chain)

Successful packaging experience with a repro-house or photoengraver and/or printer

Strong capacity to understand all aspects of a problem and apply appropriate solution.

Skill to unite interfaces around shared projects.

Skill to well-communicate with the different interfaces (internal-external) and report sticking points to the relevant people transparently and objectively

Very customer-focused, able to focus on the end result and stick to the target

Able to define processes, workflows, performance and quality criteria clearly

Good understanding of how a company works, organizational skills, determination, teamwork

Educational skills in transferring technical expertise.

Individual contributor with solid self-motivation skills

3. Languages

English