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Gravure press operator

Latest available data: March 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Engraving press operator Engraving press tender Gravure operator Gravure press operative Gravure press operator Gravure press rolltender Gravure press specialist Gravure press technician Gravure press tender Gravure press worker Gravure printing machine operator Gravure printing machine tender Gravure printing press tender Gravure specialist Gravure technician Rotogravure operator Rotogravure press operator Rotogravure press rolltender Rotogravure press specialist Rotogravure press technician Rotogravure printing machine tender Rotogravure printing press operator Rotogravure specialist Rotogravure technician

Gravure press operators work with gravure presses, where the image is engraved directly on a roll. They set up the press and monitor it during the operation, taking care of safety and resolving problems.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Setting, adjusting and monitoring substrate-feed mechanisms, delivery mechanisms, inking systems and other printing machine functions;
(b) Mixing ink and solvents to standard, and regulating paper and ink supply during print runs;
(c) Monitoring, evaluating and determining press to check print quality standards against proofs and detect malfunctions;
(d) Producing a variety of printed products using relief, lithographic, flexographic and gravure printing presses, and in-line finishing systems;
(e) Preparing plates, blankets and impression cylinders on small offset lithographic printing presses;
(f) Loading paper into feeding mechanisms;
(g) Monitoring machine operations and quality of printing;
(h) Maintaining, adjusting, repairing and cleaning machines;
(i) Producing digital print images, and transferring and outputting images.

Knowledge

  • Materials (glass, paper, plastic and wood)
  • Audio-visual techniques and media production
  • Wholesale and retail sales

Digital competencies

  • Operating print and photographic production equipment
  • Developing solutions
  • Planning events and programmes
  • Maintaining operational records
  • Complying with health and safety procedures

Digital competencies

  • Using digital tools to control machinery

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Communicating

Professional groups of the occupation

Craft and related trades workers

Handicraft and printing workers

Printing trades workers

Printers

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Printers

227

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

19,25%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-9,20% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

56,39%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

15,42%

Part-time contracts

1,14% Turnover index

260

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-10%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Handicraft and printing workers

66%

34%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Handicraft and printing workers

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Printing trades workers

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Printers

No experience
10%
Less than 1 year
26%
Between 1 and 2 years
9%
Between 2 and 4 years
33%
Between 4 and 8 years
4%
More than 8 years
18%
Manufacturing
29%
Arts, entertainment and recreation
24%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
14%
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
8%
Education
8%
Others
17%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.