12 sep
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North American Production Sharing
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Ciudad Juárez
12 sep
North American Production Sharing
Ciudad Juárez
We are hiring a Digital Print Supervisor to lead the digital decoration department. This person owns output, quality, and uptime across a multi-technology print floor: wide-format dye sublimation, digital cylindrical, UV flatbed, DTF, UV DTF, and heat transfer.
The right candidate has run these processes at production volume, can diagnose a print defect at the machine, and can train and hold a crew to a standard.
Responsibilities
- Supervise daily production across all digital print processes; assign work, set priorities, and hit daily output targets
- Own print quality: approve first articles, enforce color standards, manage reprints and root-cause defects
- Drive machine uptime through preventive maintenance schedules and fast first-line troubleshooting
- Train, cross-train, and evaluate operators; build a bench so no machine has a single point of failure
- Manage ink, film, paper, and consumable usage; reduce waste and scrap
- Partner with Art/Prepress, Scheduling, and Quality on job feasibility and artwork readiness
- Enforce safety standards, PPE, chemical handling, and ventilation requirements
- Document and maintain standard operating procedures for every process
- Report on output, scrap, downtime, and throughput
Required Experience
- 5+ years hands-on digital printing experience in a production environment
- 2+ years in a supervisory or lead role over a print team
- Demonstrated working knowledge in all of the following categories:
Category What we expect you to know
Wide-format dye sublimation
Roll-to-roll operation, transfer paper, calendar/heat press transfer, color management on polyester substrates
Digital cylindrical / rotary
Setup and fixturing of drinkware and round goods, alignment, cure
UV flatbed / direct-to-object
Jigging, height/gap control, white ink and varnish layers, adhesion and pretreat
DTF (direct-to-film)
Film, powder application, cure profiles, press parameters
UV DTF
Film handling, lamination, UV cure, adhesion on hard goods
Heat transfer
Press time/temp/pressure control, transfer troubleshooting, substrate limits
- Ink chemistry and substrate compatibility (UV, sublimation, pigment)
- Printhead maintenance, nozzle checks, purge/flush routines, capping station care
- Color management: ICC profiles, print calibration, spot/Pantone matching
- RIP software experience (we run several — Wasatch, ONYX, Caldera, Flexi). Fluency in any one is acceptable
- Bilingual English/Spanish
📌 Digital Print Supervisor (Ciudad Juárez)
🏢 North American Production Sharing
📍 Ciudad Juárez