Digital Print Supervisor

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