Printing Press Manager
Gulf Publishing & Printing Company
Total des années d'expérience :30 years, 4 Mois
Managing printing plant complex has two main departments’ state of art commercial printing press and newspaper printing press.
Commercial printing press has many sheet fed printing machines four colors and 8 colors from Heidelberg and MAN Roland like Roland 708, Heidelberg CD 102, SM 102 with coating varnish ….etc., the printing press has also complete binding solution able to produce all types of hard and soft cover products and complete die cutting solution able to produce wide range from card boxes, luxury bags….etc. plus complete solution for bag making machineries to make all kind of bags plain and printed using flexographic printing technique, in addition of all of that we have a section for label printing using 8 color printing line.
Commercial printing press has great focus in products related to packaging industry like cardboard boxes, bags …etc.
Newspaper printing press has hi-tech printing machines (CROMMAN 70) ten towers in two parallel lines running to produce high quality newspaper using heat set & cold set systems to produce newspapers & magazines under many titles.
Roles and Responsibilities
• Prepare annual budget, forecast printing press needs to meet customer demands and technological developments.
• Control warehouse stock in a way to meet needs without shortage and avoid excessive stocks.
• Directly involved in everything from monitoring performance, hiring, firing, coordinating activities, motivating employees, adhering to regulations, meeting targets, evaluating situations, and organizing people.
• Achieve consistent competitive advantage to the plant (fastest and best quality in the market) which in turn attract +90% of market share in producing brochures and advertising tabloids for hyper markets and companies.
• Reduce waste copies by 35% through continuous training and development.
• Increasing productivity by 70% through adopting efficient production techniques.
• Meet customers & concentrate on building long lasting relationships and give the right solution in case of problems or difficulties.
• Planning the manpower requirements for meeting the operations requirements, and communicating the same to HR department for follow up.
• Ensuring the strategies are implemented in true spirit.
• Manage all development and expanding projects.
• Prepare technical specs for all tenders.
• Approve and check all bids.
• Manage maintenance activities. Looking for different resources for spare parts to reduce cost. Plan maintenance schedule to minimize down times & to always keep machines performance in best situation.
• Arrange necessary training for staff while equipped them with latest technologies to meet market challenges and exceed customer expectations.
• Analyze market trends for competitor strategies and develop counter strategies.
• Support the sales team by attending important meeting, solving problems, giving technical solutions ...
• Ensure employee welfare plans are effectively implemented.
• Applying industry standards, reducing wastage to raise quality and reduce waste.
• Leading communications between printing departments and other management departments "especially Marketing & Finance" focused on smooth running along with max.customer satisfaction.
• Follow up competitors in the market and doing what is necessary to keep in world’s state of art.
• Focus concentrate on looming chances to catch & early avoid dangers.
• Adopt suitable costing process according to the circumstances
• Release new production ideas and introduce guidance to sales team how to use and introduce to customers.
• Directing purchasing process to buy best quality at reasonable prices depending on acknowledgement of best suppliers in the industry.
• keep contact with suppliers, customers, attend events, say congrats, express condolences whenever needed to build social groups with loyalty.
• Make sure that all safety aspects for man, machine, building is achieved & maintained in best performance.
JOB_ DUITIES
Managing printing machines ( MAN COLORMAN S ) running to produce over 700, 000 copies (newspapers & magazines) every day under different titles, arrange working shifts for more than 120 people in different sections, lead people to achieve work in defined time, best quality, minimum waste & work under pressure.
-Managing flow logistics for all activities related to printing plant.
-Arrange & supervising maintainace activities.
-Making production plan & coordinating with sales & marketing
-Calculate printing materials for each job & Estimate printing jobs.
-Making technical calculations & specification for tenders.
-Meet customers to discuss about work & give the right solution.
-Reporting to general manager about yearly requirements from materials (paper, inks, plates ……etc).
-Reporting for new machines, tools to update our site & cover customer needed.
Latest projects Year 2008;
-leading studies to choose cold set web offset book printing machine & choose GOSS machine .
-leading studies to choose 4 CTP Lines 2 for commercial books & magazines & 2 for newspaper printing & we choose KODAK Lines thermal plate technology. .
Running a production unit for producing offset printing chemicals (fountain solution, plate developer, plate cleaner) plus trading in other printing consumables like inks, blankets, IPA…..etc.
This business I run beside my work in Akhbar El-Yom Establishment for 13 years and business was going well until late 2008 when I faced some personnel problems which pressed me to spend huge amount of money and sold the business in middle of 2009.
I started this business with my own formula for plate cleaner and fountain solution which I developed in 1994 while I was working for presnesitized plate manufacturer.
I received a lot of experience from running this business I gained experience in importing goods, negotiating prices, setting selling prices for different materials, knew better about different consumers behavior and how to deal with each ones…..etc .
Running whole business activities is not an easy task but after doing I gained a lot of experience in all business areas, especially in marketing, knew well about the importance of market data, how to lead sales force, managing inventories, the importance to keep enough cash all the time, how to discover sales leads, marketing channels, the time lag between start an issue and be fruitful.
Running production for high quality web heat set book printing tender (about 14 million books) for ministry of education in KSA. using MAN CROMOMAN 50 .
Controling product quality (presensitized offset plates) by making all quality tests to be sure that is product quality is excellent .
Learning working staff how to keep quality .
Follow up product in press housess after sales and try to make solutions to solve any problems with customer or doing all necssary developments to save best quality.
Excute printing operations
STUDY PRINTING TECHNOLOGY ( PREPRESS, PRINTING,FINISHING )IN FULL DETAILS FOR ALL PRINTING METHOD AS OFFSET,ROTOGRAVURE, FLEXOGRAPH , SCREEN PRINTING
