Printing Production Supervisors
Job description
These individuals supervise and coordinate the activities of the printing production staff (press, binding, finishing, etc.).
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Hazardous chemical
Main tasks
- Supervise, coordinate, and plan printing staff activities.
- Establish work methods to meet deadlines and coordinate work with other sections.
- Order materials and supplies.
- Solve work-related and technical problems and recommend measures to increase productivity.
- Manage staff and ensure their training.
- Ensure compliance with workplace safety standards.
- Drafts reports.
- Verify and approve proofs to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Adjust machinery or equipment as required.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to management positions.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
800
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 37.5% Female
- 62.5% Male
Not available.
- 37.5% Female
- 62.5% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$59,600
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- None
All of Québec
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 32375% of jobs
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NAICS 3226% of jobs
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NAICS 515% of jobs
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NAICS 3264% of jobs
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NAICS 812% of jobs
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Others8% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 32375% of jobs
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NAICS 3226% of jobs
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NAICS 515% of jobs
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NAICS 3264% of jobs
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NAICS 812% of jobs
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Others8% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
College
DCS in gestion de projet en communications graphiques
Code : 581C0
Placement rate: 100%
Sometimes required
- A college diploma in Graphic Arts Technology may be required.
- Several years of supervisory experience are usually required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Oral expression
- Reading comprehension
- Coordination
- Human resource management
- Time management
- Critical thought
- Judgment and decision-making
- Information processing
- Result evaluation
- Social perception
- Written expression
- Persuasion
- Solving complex problems
- Quality control analysis
- Active learning
- Teaching
- Negotiation
- Learning strategies
- Monitoring operations
- Operation analysis
- Systems evaluation
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Deductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Written comprehension
- Speech clarity
- Speech recognition
- Inductive reasoning
- Written expression
- Classification
- Information organization
- Near vision
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Perception speed
- Distance vision
- Selective attention
- Time sharing
- Processing flexibility
- Hand-arm stability
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to develop and maintain business relations
- Leadership
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Autonomy
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Capacity to work in a team
- Strategic sense
- Sense of equity
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Make, build, install
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Official name of the NOC 72022
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Job titles
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- Photographic and film processing foreman/woman
- Photographic processing and finishing foreman/woman
- Film printing foreman/woman
- Pressroom foreman/woman - printing
- Printing shop foreman/woman
- Bindery foreman/woman - printing
- Letterpress room foreman/woman
- Gravure printers foreman/woman
- Printers foreman/woman
- Rotogravure press operators foreman/woman - printing
- Gravure press operators foreman/woman
- Compositors foreman/woman - printing
- Offset press operators foreman/woman - printing
- Film developers foreman/woman
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- Photoengravers foreman/woman
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- Printers supervisor
- Filmsetter operators supervisor
- Platemakers supervisor
- Compositors supervisor - printing
- Hand compositors supervisor
- Printing press operators supervisor
- Film developers supervisor
- Filmsetters supervisor
- Film processors supervisor
- Photographic processors supervisor
- Binders supervisor - printing
- Bindery workers supervisor - printing
- Typographers supervisor
- Prepress workers supervisor
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- Pressroom supervisor - printing
- Composing room supervisor - printing
- Bindery supervisor - printing
- Finishing supervisor - printing
- Production supervisor - printing
- Preparatory supervisor - printing
- Plateroom supervisor - printing
- Platemaking supervisor - printing
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- Photographic and film processing supervisor
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Skill type
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