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This is a full time, permanent position, based at their site in Cramlington.
Salary:
Approximately 38,000 upwards, depending on experience.
Your main duties will be:
- Design and trial new decorative designs for polymeric films using gravure printing, aligned with market trends and customer expectations.
- Develop and optimize solvent-based ink systems, with a focus on pigment selection, dispersion and stability.
- Evaluate and support the development of primers to ensure strong bonding of films to polymeric substrates.
- Conduct lab and pilot-scale gravure printing trials, managing all print parameters including cylinder selection, drying and ink transfer.
- Troubleshoot printing issues such as colour issues, poor adhesion, solvent retention and miss printing.
Candidate requirements - skills and experience:
- Technical qualification or degree in Printing Technology, Materials Science, Chemistry or a related field
- Proven experience in gravure-printing
- Strong understanding of pigments
- Working knowledge of primers and adhesion promoters
Apply:
It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK. Must have a full UK Driving Licence, be able to drive and have access to a car. Please quote job reference (Apply online only) in all correspondence.
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