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