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Ocupacions

Screen printer

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

Other denominations:
Screen print technician Screen printer Screen printing machine operator Screen printing machine specialist Screen printing machine technician Screen printing operator Screen-printer Silk-screen printer Silk-screen printing machine oeprator Silk-screen printing machine operator Silk-screen printing machine specialist Silk-screen printing machine technician Silk-screen printing machine worker Silk-screen printing operator

Screen printers tend a press that presses ink through a screen. They are responsible for the setup, operation and maintenance of the screen printing machine.

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

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

Digital competencies

  • Operating print and photographic production equipment
  • Planning events and programmes
  • Monitoring quality of products
  • 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

Technicians and associate professionals

Science and engineering associate professionals

Physical and engineering science technicians

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

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

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

234

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

20,00%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

3,08% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

58,55%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

18,38%

Part-time contracts

1,15% Turnover index

254

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-11%

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.

Science and engineering associate professionals

68%

32%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Science and engineering associate professionals

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

Physical and engineering science technicians

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?

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

No experience
7%
Less than 1 year
27%
Between 1 and 2 years
9%
Between 2 and 4 years
35%
Between 4 and 8 years
5%
More than 8 years
17%
Manufacturing
32%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
28%
Information and communication
9%
Administrative and support service activities
8%
Education
7%
Others
16%

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.