Skilled Personel Looking For Work

 

Our background is the printing industry; consequently we are able to effectively qualify all prospective candidates by telephone, interview, reference checking, and job-end review and rating. Our high standards result in first-rate client satisfaction.

Top-Guns offer our Companies various recruitment and staffing options based on your needs. If you want to hire permanent employees but first want to see if they are a good fit, we offer a simple solution where the employee remains a Top-Guns employee until you decide whether or not they become part of your team. If you are suddenly busy, let us provide flexible staff to help you get the jobs done and out on time.

Check out our list of employees looking for work and let us know who you’d like us to send your way.

 

Pressroom | Bindery | Pre-press

Pressroom

maintenance manager/ millwright

15 years offset press installation exp.

complete piping/aux. systems knowledge.

excellent troubleshooting skills.

Health and safety background.

Works/communicates well with prod. mgr.

Pressroom

supervisor /coordinator or estimator

Coordinate all aspects of printing production. Planning, staffing, suppliers, and estimating. Proficient on most bindery equipment. Approvals of colour and all other aspects of production supervising.

Pressroom

Pressman

Filled in at first man to cover for holidays 5 years.

Pressroom

First Pressman/Leadhand

I'm currently a Firstman/Leadhand on web presses at a large commercial printer in Vancouver. I have been with the company for 28 full time years and 2 part time. I have worked on - ATF 4 6 and 8 unit presses (4 web compatibility), M200 5 unit 2 web press, M1000 5 and 8 unit, 2 and 4 web presses, M1000B 4 and 5 unit that can tandem , and Komori 8 unit system 38-2 web press. I also have experience with sheeters and uv coating. I have worked in all positions in the press room during my career

Pressroom

Apprentice Litho Pressman

EMPLOYMENT

Quebecor World Vancouver, BC

Quebecor World Port Coquitlam, BC

EQUIPMENT

Pressroom

Lead Pressman

My first 4 years were spent on a 8 unit goss community.. with 1/2 and quarter fold.. 24-30 inch web... the last 2-3 years Ive been on a 12 unit Goss Urbanite runnin collect with upperformer with 2 folders.. and 7 running ENKELS at the Kingston Whig-Standard.

Pressroom

Production Coordinator

I have been involved in the printing industry for 15 years. I have extensive customer service experience with very solid production knowledge in pre-press, press (both sheetfed & web) and bindery depts. I am looking for a supervisory or Sr. Coordinator position with a well established press house or ad agency in the lower mainland.

Pressroom

Pressman

Twenty years of experience on the following:

Pressroom

operator

Presently I am working as an operator of an IGEN3 90. For the last 6 years I have coordinated and worked with small colour machines such as the Dc40, Xerox 2060 and 6060 with a Fiery controller. Within, those years I have also worked with larger color output machines such as HP 5000 and HP 9000 with a Onyx operating software. I am fluent with working with Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, Corel Draw and Office programs. I have many years working in bindery as well. I am a quick learner and am very loyal and hard worker.

Pressroom

Press Helper/Feeder

Pressroom

Pressman

Pressroom

Pressman

Pressroom

Printing, Printing related

Letterpress, mostly small offset, older one and two colour larger machines. Owner operator of shop for many years. Presently lead hand printer at envelope factory, running and doing all repair of 3 Halm Jet presses.

Bindery

Bindery or Warehouse work

Cutters, Stahl saddle stitcher, some folder work

Laminator, all types of fork lifts. Various other bindery jobs.

Right now I'm not in the printing industry, I'm working for an automotive firm.

Bindery

Stitcher/Folder/Cutter

Journeyman Book Binder I

� Set-up, maintenance and operation of Stitcher, Folder, Cutter, Sitma Polybagger, Mailing head and Inkjet printer.

� Supervised crew of up to 6 people.

� Operated Forklift, hand trucks and electric pallet jacks.

Bindery

Bindery Operator/Supervisor

Some of the equipment I have used are:

* Various other equipement related to the bindery. EG: -Drills, punches, colators...

I hold a City and Guilds in Print Finishing and Print Technology which I gained in England. I have 20 years experience working on numerous Print Finishing equipment, I have worked various shift patterns, as well as holding positions of authority. Extremely flexible, reliable, easy to get along with and I am will to re-locate from London Ontario for the right position.

Resume and references available upon request.

Bindery

Digital printing -Bindery

1980 to Present

Konica,Xerox,Cannon Image runner 600,Oce 2600,3165,Ikon Image runner C3220,Phoenix Engraver,Polar paper cutter,Perfect binder.

Coil binder, folder and Paddy wagon.

Bindery

stitcher operator

Last position was as lead saddle stitcher operator in chrage of two bravo plus saddle stitchers. I performed all set-ups and repairs and I have worked on primas, bravos, fox, 335 minuteman model saddle stitchers.I am also familiar with mbo stahl folders and have done some cutting in the past.

Bindery

bindery operator

Four years afternoon shift supervisor where I was responsible for all production in the bindery.Led a crew of six employees.

Previously, I worked at a Trade Bindery for six years as a cutter/folder and Muller operator.

I have worked with the following types of equipment.

Bindery

Bindery Work

I run the Horizon Collater

Brackett High speed padder

Maintain and run the drills and small stitching machines

Do some cutting as well

I trim all the Business cards on a machine called a slitter as they do a lot of Thermo cards.

Bindery

stitcher operator

have 10 years exp operating a stitcher/meuller ,,,meuller martini type ,,,can set up ,operate,maintain machine,currently working in calgary ,,looking to relocate in the not so distant future ,,,thank you for your time

Pre-press

Pre-Press Supervisor

Supervise Prepress Department staff in all aspects of digital file preparation, electronic

imposition, Proofing, CTP platemaking, and Digital Printing.

Organize and schedule the daily production in the department.

Organize and schedule the staff shifts and vacation. Interview and hire staff as well as

conduct staff performance reviews and provide feedback.

Develop Standard Operating Procedures based upon ISO principals.

Create and maintain business records as per company requirements.

Generate department reports and budgets for Management review.

Work with suppliers and service providers to ensure quality is maintained and cost are

kept to a minimum.

Pre-press

Electronic Prepress/Production Artist

I have been working in the Lower Mainland for the last 9 years and am currently looking for a full time position somewhere between Vancouver and Abbotsford

� Solid knowledge of the prepress workflow

� Experienced with proofing/film and plate output devices

� Imposition for film output and digital printing

� Typesetting and designing jobs according to customer

specifications or from scratch

� Six years experience running a digital colour and B&W printers

� Managing email and files on FTP server

� Efficient with Mac OSX and Windows platforms

� Teamwork in a fast placed environment

� Excellent interpersonal and communication skill

� Sense of humor

� Preparing artwork for printing

� Creating artwork for customers

� Teaching customers how to optimize their artwork for digital and offset printing.

� Flight checking

� Trapping

Relevant Sills

Applications:

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign

Adobe Acrobat, QuarkXPress, Pagemaker

FreeHand, MS Word, Publisher

Prepress / Production

� Film and Lino output.

� Assembling of Colour Keys and Matchprints.

� Film management and calibration of a Heidelberg Ultre 4000 imagesetter with software rip, as well as Agfa Avantra44 and Avantra 25 Imagesetters with software rips.

� Large format digital output on various mediums.

� Short run digital printing, with some bindery involved.

� Ability to meet tight deadlines in a fast paced environment.

Pre-press

Pre-Press Technician

For the past seven years I have worked at a prepress service bureau. I would like to find a similar position in Salmon Arm, BC or area.

My experience is as follows:

Applications:

Pre-press

Pre-Press/Graphic Design

Prepress Operator

1/2000 - 12/2006 Strålfors Svenska AB, Göteborg, Vastra Gotaland

I use both Mac OSX and Windows platforms very efficiently.

Applications I work with:

Pre-press

Prepress

Highlights

PhotoShop, Illustrator, PageMaker, Indesign, Quark, and Coreldraw

Solid knowledge of pre-press and press system and workflow

Teamwork in a fast placed environment

Excellent interpersonal and communication skill

Sense of humor

Pre-press

Production Artist

The last 3 companies I worked for: Freelance Mac Stuff, Overwaitea Food Group & Supreme Graphics

I have all aspects of skills required for each step in the pre-press process: Scanning, film & page layout, camera and computer operator, paste-up, plate making and film stripping, typography & typesetting.