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Ocupacions

Screen printer

Latest available data: December 2024 (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

Professionals

Science and engineering professionals

Physical and earth science professionals

Physicists and astronomers

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Physicists and astronomers

241

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

19,90%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-10,07% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

57,68%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

13,28%

Part-time contracts

1,15% Turnover index

269

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-8%

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 professionals

59%

41%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Science and engineering 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 earth science professionals

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?

Physicists and astronomers

No experience
12%
Less than 1 year
24%
Between 1 and 2 years
9%
Between 2 and 4 years
34%
Between 4 and 8 years
3%
More than 8 years
18%
Activitats professionals, científiques i tècniques
55%
Informació i comunicacions
10%
Educació
9%
Subministrament d'energia elèctrica, gas, vapor i aire condicionat
8%
Administració pública, Defensa i Seguretat Social obligatòria
6%
Altres
12%

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.