Apprentice Print Technician
SUPERIOR CREATIVE SERVICES LIMITED
Wiltshire (SN12 6TS)
Closes on Monday 6 October 2025
Posted on 15 August 2025
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Summary
Excellent opportunity working for a long-established company, based at our offices in Bowerhill, Melksham, Wiltshire. You will join our Reprographics team, who are key to ensuring printed products meet our clients’ high expectations.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Print technician (level 3)
- Hours
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37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Saturday 11 October 2025
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Working within the highly skilled Reprographics/Pre-press department, you will undertake on-the-job training in the following areas:-
- Pre-press production - plate making to a schedule/deadline
- Efficiently operate pre-press machinery
- Plan, produce, edit digital files ready for production
- Create and alter graphics
- Create imposition schemes and job layout
- Understanding receipt, checking, and processing of digital files
- Understand colour theory
- Produce a printed or digital proof
- Produce reports and relevant paperwork
- Customer communication
Where you'll work
Hercules Way
Bowerhill Estate
Melksham
Wiltshire
SN12 6TS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BPIF TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Print technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply environmental and sustainability procedures in compliance with regulations and standards for example, segregating resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Apply health and safety and manual handling procedures in compliance with regulations and standards.
- Plan and prioritise work
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic for example, work sheets, check lists, handover records, job sheets.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques. Devise suggestions for improvement.
- Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Communicate with others verbally including colleagues or stakeholders.
- Communicate in writing.
- Apply problem-solving techniques to common problems.
- Use information and digital technology. Comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations and policies.
- Identify, organise and use resources effectively to complete tasks, with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Apply team working principles.
- Convert customer files to print-ready files using software and workflow packages.
- Check, process and transmit digital files using software.
- Create and edit digital images.
- Conversion of digital files into colour separations for the defined production method.
- Apply digital techniques to produce a proof.
- Apply colour profiles to the design.
- Apply production techniques to produce plates, screens, or output files.
- Apply pre-press quality assurance procedures.
- Set up and check the multi-unit print press, including speeds, inks and toners and pre-printing quality checks.
- Follow print press start up or warm up procedures.
- Apply print press operations and techniques, including managing colour. Handle variable data on digital presses.
- Follow quality control processes during printing, including checking for colour matching, print resolution, product consistency.
- Apply press equipment and machinery maintenance techniques including cleaning and servicing.
- Follow machine shut down, safe isolation, hand over procedures. Escalate issues.
- Apply press quality assurance procedures.
- Apply safe systems of work to the printing press process in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidelines. This should include identifying risks and hazards and the handling and disposal of chemicals.
- Set up finishing equipment for example, guillotines, stitching-trimming machinery, binding machinery, laminating equipment, die-cutters.
- Operate finishing equipment to apply different finishing processes, for example, varnishing, folding, embossing and debossing, foil blocking, scoring, packing, gluing, match and attach, tab and slot, sorting, banding.
- Prepare printing for next stage, including packing and wrapping.
- Apply post-press equipment maintenance techniques including cleaning and servicing.
- Apply post-press quality assurance procedures such as checking for folding accuracy, stitch alignment, foil position.
- Apply safe systems of work to the finishing process in compliance with regulations, standards and guidelines, including the handling and disposal of chemicals.
- Apply environmental and sustainability procedures in compliance with regulations and standards for example, segregating resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Apply health and safety and manual handling procedures in compliance with regulations and standards.
- Plan and prioritise work
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic for example, work sheets, check lists, handover records, job sheets.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques. Devise suggestions for improvement.
- Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Communicate with others verbally including colleagues or stakeholders.
- Communicate in writing.
- Apply problem-solving techniques to common problems.
- Use information and digital technology. Comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations and policies.
- Identify, organise and use resources effectively to complete tasks, with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Apply team working principles.
Training schedule
Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, the qualification obtained will be a Level 3 Print Technician Apprenticeship Standard.
Throughout your time as an apprentice, you will be supported by both
Superior Creative Services and the BPIF. You will be assigned a training coordinator to ensure that you have the best training available.
Training requirements will be discussed at the point of employment to suit your individual needs and business needs. Most training and studying will be a combination of site-based at Melksham and remote delivery.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
About this employer
The Delta Group is a major visual communications group specialising in the design, print and fulfilment of promotional marketing materials for Retail and FMCG sectors. We are a client focused company dedicated to delivering results on time and to budget. We provide an end-to-end service which starts with the design of powerful visual communications and our full in-house production facilities deliver the finished product to our clients quickly and cost effectively. Our aim is to innovate, progress and evolve our clients’ marketing campaigns to give stand-out in a crowded market.
Company benefits
Additional benefits:- • 26 days paid annual holiday, plus 8 days paid public/bank holidays. • Employee Assistance Programme • Supersid Discount Portal
After this apprenticeship
Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, individuals will have gained valuable industry-recognised qualifications, hands-on experience, and a strong foundation in the print and point of sale sector. This positions them well for a range of career opportunities—either within our organisation or elsewhere in the industry. While future employment is not guaranteed, we always aim to support apprentices in exploring potential roles and continuing their professional development.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPIF TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000328036.
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Closes on Monday 6 October 2025
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