Print Production and Traffic Assistant

Remuneration:	R15000 - R20000 per month basic salary
Location:	Durbanville
Education level:	Degree
Job level:	Junior/Mid
Own transport required:	Yes
Travel requirement:	Occasional
Type:	Permanent
Reference:	#ND001
Company:	New Direction

Are you a strong, independent, level-headed, and passionate person? Then this job is for you.
We are expanding our business.

You will play a crucial role in ensuring the workflow with suppliers is in place. This position offers an opportunity to grow as part of our dynamic team, gaining hands-on experience in print production and project management.

Qualifications/requirements:

• Diploma/degree in communications or administration (BA)
• Excellent written and verbal proficiency in English is mandatory
• South African permanent residency or citizenship is required
• Experience within print production traffic control or operations in a printing environment
• Minimum of three to four years in production/traffic operations

Duties:

• Plan and manage all work in the system
• Provide daily status updates, with weekly forecasts of workflow
• Ensure jobs are tracked, and chase production
• Deal with installation teams in the field
• Liaise with management
• Oversee daily production operations
• Provide daily updates of work in the system
• Ensure jobs are dispatched
• Be able to travel to sites or factories, with flexibility to travel regularly at short notice

Experience:

• Minimum of three to four years in production/traffic operations

Skills and attributes/key competencies:

• MS Office (Word/Excel advanced)
• Organisational skills
• Time management
• Solution-oriented
• Attention to detail, excellent time management
• Ability to manage suppliers
• Strong people management skills
• Ability to multitask
• Great organiser
• Ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to receive instructions and work independently
• Understanding of time management
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams
• Planning timelines
• Strong leadership with suppliers
• Self-motivation
• Sense of urgency
• Team player
• Ability to travel to sites or factories, with flexibility to travel regularly at short notice

The successful candidate must have their own transport and a valid driver’s licence. The position is available in the Durbanville area, Western Cape, so please consider your travelling times/distance when applying.

Please submit your CV with a motivational letter and salary expectation.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us within two weeks after submitting your CV, please assume that your application was unsuccessful.

Closing date: 31 August 2024

Company Description

We are a client driven print production and project management company, tailored to meet your individual needs. We constantly strive to remain competitive, flexible, fast, reliable and accountable. New Direction is dedicated to sourcing cost-effective, ethically sound solutions for our clients’ marketing and branding needs. Our design expertise and sound knowledge affords our clients high exposure marketing collateral, whilst ensuring that their brand remains strong across all media.

We offer you a complete, flexible and reliable print service for all your business needs with small and large format digital and litho printing.

Posted on 14 Aug 16:05, Closing date 21 Aug