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Taylor Corporation is looking for a Press Production Manager to lead daily digital press operations and drive performance across production, quality, safety, employee development, and continuous improvement initiatives. This position is responsible for ensuring customer commitments are met, production schedules are achieved, equipment is operating efficiently, and teams are supported through strong leadership and accountability.
Your Responsibilities:
- Manage daily press production to meet schedules, customer commitments, and shipping requirements.
- Review production schedules and establish priorities for the shift.
- Ensure jobs are started, produced, completed, and moved to the next operation on time.
- Monitor production performance and adjust priorities when equipment or staffing issues affect output.
- Identify bottlenecks and escalate issues before they impact delivery commitments.
- Ensure digital presses are operated safely and according to manufacturer specifications.
- Monitor press performance, run speeds, uptime, downtime, and production output.
- Coordinate with Maintenance to resolve equipment issues and reduce recurring failures.
- Establish and maintain quality standards including first-piece approvals and routine quality audits.
- Lead, coach, and develop press operators while holding employees accountable for performance, attendance, quality, and productivity.
- Conduct shift meetings and ensure effective communication between shifts.
- Maintain accurate production information and communicate schedule risks immediately.
- Monitor key performance indicators including uptime, labor utilization, waste, reprints, first-pass yield, and on-time completion.
- Enforce safety procedures, PPE requirements, and lockout/tagout practices.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on reducing downtime, waste, changeover time, and rework.
- Develop and maintain standard operating procedures and operator checklists.
You Must Have:
- 3-5+ years of commercial or digital print production experience.
- Strong understanding of digital presses and production workflows.
- Experience working in a high-volume production environment.
- Previous leadership, supervisory, or management experience within a manufacturing setting.
- Strong understanding of digital press setup, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance.
- Ability to manage production schedules, priorities, capacity constraints, and workflow demands.
- Knowledge of print quality requirements, registration, color management, and defect identification.
- Proven problem-solving skills and ability to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
- Strong communication and employee development skills.
- Experience using production management systems, scheduling software, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Excel.
- Strong commitment to workplace safety and safe operating procedures.
We Would Also Prefer:
- Experience with HP Indigo, Nozomi, or comparable high-production digital printing equipment.
- Experience with Lean Manufacturing, A3, 5-Why, or other continuous improvement methodologies.
- Experience leading multi-shift operations.
- Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing, Operations, Business, or a related field.
- Experience within commercial print, direct mail, packaging, or other high-volume manufacturing environments.
About Taylor Corporation
One of the largest print and communications firms in North America, Taylor’s family of companies provides a diverse set of products, services and technologies that address the toughest business challenges. We work diligently each day to create printed and digital marketing communication solutions that help power many of the world’s most recognizable brands.
With more than 50 years of category expertise and 10,000 employees spanning dozens of U.S. states and multiple countries, Taylor serves businesses and distributors both large and small. Our employees enjoy a comprehensive benefit package including a choice of several health plans, dental, vision, wellness programs, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, a 401(k) plan with company match, paid time off (PTO) and 64 hours of annual holiday pay.
The Employer retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position.
Taylor Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Taylor Corporation including all partners and affiliates is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
