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Siegwerk USA in Elk Grove Village, IL is looking for an InHouse Manager overseeing ink room management and operations.
Job Summary
Performs a broad range of complex technical, administrative and supervisory duties within a large sized customer plant pertaining to daily ink room management and operation; coordinates jobs being set up for presses; oversees and monitors the work completed by Siegwerk and customer employees. Meets customer needs to the best of the incumbent’s ability, in line with Siegwerk philosophy that the customer is the #1 priority. Complies with all company policies and standards.
Job Responsibilities
- Oversees and manages all ink room operations.
- Assists customer with ink room procedures and improvements.
- Performs technical services and press-side trouble shooting.
- Responsible for creating, budgeting, and the completion of projects, utilizing the resources of the company, to including staff, scheduling, etc. Has decision-making authority with significant financial impact to the company.
- Supervises on-site Siegwerk team in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.
- Monitors, evaluates, and appraises department productivity and employee performance; guides in-house team to meeting daily goals and improving performance; participates in interviews and assists in selection of new hires; trains new employees; plans and assigns work; recommends employee rewards and discipline to manager; addresses complaints and resolves problems with manager input.
- Facilitates, coordinates, and monitors work completion through appropriate customer team members.
- Actively participates on “Customer Problem Solving Team”.
- Promotes positive customer relations.
- Works closely with Account Manager and Area Technical Manager to assure proper procedures, work flow, quality and customer relations standards are met.
- Responsible for training Siegwerk in-house technicians, assistants and customer ink blenders as needed.
- Works with customer to establish key performance indicators to improve press performance through-put.
- Responsible for maintaining finished ink inventory goals related to consignment or other predetermined systems.
- Responsible for insuring most cost effective overtime dollars without jeopardizing customers’ performance
- Blends inks for jobs on press.
- Sets up job standards for presses.
- Maintains color files.
- Color matches for new jobs.
- Applies measurement tools, such as control charts, to measure on-going performance.
- Handles all special projects per customer requests.
- Other duties as assigned.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
- Color matching ability and knowledge of inks and films required.
- Excellent teamwork, communications skills, and demonstrated initiative in problem solving/troubleshooting required.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Knowledge of basic computer operating and a good working knowledge of IMS/SPEC/Nova Flow.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routing reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Education and Experience
High School diploma or GED with a minimum of 6-7 years press-related experience and/or equivalent combination of education and experience; experience and knowledge of pre-press operations required.