Faridabad, Delhi NCR | On-site | 12–18 years | Reports to the founders Qualification: B.E. / B.Tech — Printing Technology, Polymer or Plastics Engineering, Mechanical, Chemical or Production

Printing is the step that makes our product ours. It's also where most of our quality risk sits, because a defect found at pack is a part we've already paid to mould.

Your scope is everything that happens to a part after it leaves the tool: UV printing, dye-sublimation, cylindrical and bottle printing, coating, and assembly — through to a finished product ready to pack.

We have shift managers running the floor, an engineer keeping machines healthy, and a specialist owning colour. What we don't have is anyone accountable for whether our decoration as a whole is good and getting better — or for deciding what we should be able to produce two years from now.

This role is technical before it is managerial. If you can't stand at a press and tell us why the part in your hand failed, the rest of the job won't work.

And a large share of the time, the answer isn't the press. Adhesion failures usually trace back to materials — mould release contamination on the part surface, a substrate whose surface energy was never going to accept ink without treatment, plasticiser migrating out of a TPU weeks after it shipped. We want someone who looks upstream before blaming the machine.

Who owns what — read this

Several roles touch printing, and all of them sit under you:

- You own the outcome — print and assembly quality, process capability, and what we can and can't produce
- Operations Managers own daily throughput and dispatch on their shifts
- The UV Printing Engineer owns machine condition, maintenance and uptime
- The Colour Management Specialist owns profiles and colour standards

When a defect appears, the diagnosis crosses all four. You decide where it actually came from, what changes, and you're accountable if it comes back.

What you'd build

- Validated recipes per product and substrate across every process, so output doesn't depend on who's on shift
- A process capability baseline — what our defect rates actually are, by type and by process. Harder to establish than it sounds, and impossible to improve without
- A qualification route for new substrates and products, so new product development gets a real answer on printability and assembly rather than an opinion
- Technology strategy: which process suits which product, where current capability runs out, and what we invest in next
- A capability roadmap that lets us say yes to work we currently have to decline

Building the team

We're scaling,



and most of our operators arrive without print-specific skills. How you build capability matters as much as how you build process.

- A skill matrix per process — who can set up, who can run, who can judge quality on UV, sublimation, cylindrical and assembly. Certification before anyone operates unsupervised
- Cross-training as a capacity lever, not an HR nicety. In high-mix production, if one person can set up the bottle line then that line's availability equals their attendance. Depth on every process is how we stop losing days to one person's leave
- Limit samples, so "acceptable" is a physical object an operator can hold rather than an opinion that shifts by shift. Most quality arguments on a print floor are really definition arguments
- Train-the-trainer, so capability multiplies rather than routing through you
- A progression path that gives a good operator a reason to stay beyond the next ₹2,000 offer
- The structure of the function itself as we grow — shift coverage, technical specialists, quality

You'd own

- UV flatbed, cylindrical and bottle printing, dye-sublimation, coating and assembly
- Quality and first-pass yield across the whole post-moulding chain. The number this role is judged on
- Capacity planning against the production plan
- Capital decisions for new capacity, and the business cases behind them
- Customer complaints through to root cause and corrective action
- The function and its team: shift operations, machine engineering, colour

You need

Real technical depth across our processes. Specifically:

- Dye-sublimation — transfer printing onto polyester and poly-coated substrates, heat press and 3D vacuum sublimation, and how time, temperature and pressure shift the final result
- UV inkjet — flatbed printing, LED curing, primer and surface preparation, white ink and varnish layers, and adhesion that holds up weeks later rather than just at inspection
- Cylindrical and bottle printing — rotary setup, chuck alignment, tapered and non-uniform profiles, maintaining head gap over a curved surface
- Assembly — multi-part products, fit and tolerance, insert handling, and cosmetic damage prevention on finished parts

Materials — plastics. How substrate behaviour decides what decoration is possible: PC, ABS, PC/ABS, TPU, TPE, PP,



PMMA and filled grades. Surface energy and dyne level, and which plastics need corona, plasma or flame treatment before they'll accept anything. Heat deflection limits, which govern what can be sublimated without distorting the part. Mould release carryover, plasticiser migration, and the other upstream causes of a print that fails three weeks later.

Materials — coatings. Hard coat, soft-touch and PU systems, UV-curable versus two-component thermal cure. Primer and adhesion promoter selection. Mix ratio, pot life and cure schedules for 2K systems. Order of operations — coating over print versus print over coating — and why that choice is rarely reversible. Coating defects: orange peel, fish eyes, pinholes, poor levelling.

Testing. Cross-hatch adhesion, abrasion, chemical and sweat resistance, and accelerated ageing — enough to establish whether a finish actually holds rather than assuming it will.

Plus:

- An engineering degree. B.E./B.Tech in Printing Technology, Polymer or Plastics Engineering, Mechanical, Chemical or Production. Printing Technology and Polymer Engineering map most closely to this role; a CIPET background is directly relevant on the materials side
- 12+ years in industrial or digital printing production, with genuine function ownership rather than supervision alone
- Defect diagnosis you can demonstrate — separating machine, ink, substrate, file, operator and setting as causes rather than guessing
- Colour management fundamentals, fluent enough to challenge the specialist who owns them
- Quality improvement with numbers — a defect rate you reduced, and how
- Equipment selection and commissioning, with capital accountability
- Demonstrated team building — you've hired, structured and grown a production team, not just inherited one
- A training system you built, with evidence it worked: skill matrices, certification, limit samples, or whatever you used
- Leadership across shifts and across technical specialists who know their speciality better than you do
- Fluent Hindi; working English

Good to have: injection moulding exposure, coating line operation, metals and glass decoration, high-mix short-run environments, screen or pad printing, IMD/IML, drinkware or promotional product decoration.

Tell us: one print defect you root-caused where the obvious answer turned out to be wrong, one adhesion or coating failure you traced to a material cause, one quality metric you moved with before and after numbers, one operator you developed into something more, and the specific processes, substrates and coatings you've personally run.

📌 Head of Printing (Faridabad)
🏢 SB eCommerce Solutions
📍 Faridabad