THE·TEAM operates at the epicenter of sports, music and entertainment, serving talent, brands and properties on a global scale.
LIVE·TEAM specializes in delivering branding and signage, custom fabrication, live event production and experiential operations across sports, music and entertainment. Working with the world’s most iconic properties and brands, we elevate live events to make them unforgettable.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, THE·TEAM's presence spans 28 countries and more than 70 cities, including New York, London, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Toronto, Paris and Sydney. For more information, please visit THE.TEAM.
The finishing department is a key section of our production facility ensuring that our customers campaign and event products arrive finished, trimmed and able to be installed or used correctly. You will be responsible for finishing and collating printed or supplied products according to job bag and campaign specifications. You will be working as part of a finishing team that works across multiple material types, large and small format items, and 3D structures, using a variety of standard finishing machinery.
As Unit Manager / Deputy Unit Manager you will be responsible for the management of the finishing department and associated team members. You will be busy with quality monitoring to ensure that high standards are met from all members of the finishing team. You will also be working closely with production management teams and other business wide teams to ensure all projects are produced and delivered, and all requirements and needs of the client are met and exceeded.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:
- Managing Finishing Unit team
- Interviewing finishers, building a strong team in the Finishing Unit
- Administrating all Finishing Unit personnel
- Setting and managing teams' workloads across production tasks daily
- Scheduling all projects and finishing requirements on internal MI System (training provided)
- Understanding risk and escalation process to ensure that issues are avoided or managed correctly
- Following instruction surrounding campaign and event requirements from production managers
- Operate and maintain a clean, efficient and productive finishing department
- Working to set tasks daily
- Reporting to the Print Production Director
- Work as a team to achieve daily objectives to a high standard
- Follow the health & safety rules and procedures
- Communicate effectively and professionally with your unit team and other departments
You will be busy with the following finishing duties:
- Zund cutting tables – cutting, kiss cutting, routing, etc
- Laminating – heated rollers and Rolls Rollers
- Hand finishing – vinyl wrap mounting, weeding etc
- Eyelets and hemming – finishing of banners/textiles
- Various manual finishing operations – gluing, assembly, taping, etc
THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE YOU NEED:
- Planning & organising skills
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-moving environment
- Experience working in planning and scheduling of large format graphics production
- Passionate about servicing clients internal and external
- Great attention to detail, along with fantastic communication skills – verbal, written and presentational
- Experience of print and finishing production techniques of large format graphics
- Competency in all Microsoft Office packages, as well as good all round computer skills (training provided for MIS system)
- Ability to prioritise and think logically and methodically
This role will be based in our Orpington office Monday to Friday.
THE·TEAM does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.
Pay: £35,000.00-£42,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Application question(s):
- This role is based in our Orpington office Monday to Friday. Can you commit to this?
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
