Print Technician Apprentice
ECLIPSE LABELS LIMITED
SWINDON (SN3 4NS)
Closes in 24 days (Friday 18 September 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 25 August 2026
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Summary
We're looking for a motivated Print Techician to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to learn all aspects of the print industry while working alongside experienced professionals. From our established printing plant in Swindon, we provide a complete design and printing service for customers in food and drink sectors.
- Wage
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£15,600 to £24,784.50, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Print technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday-Fridays, 37.5 hrs per week, overtime at weekends subject to demands of the business.
Shift work – Earlies/Lates
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 21 September 2026
- Duration
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2 years 6 months
- 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
Manage all processes during printing:
- Ensuring efficient schedules that minimise washup
- Changeovers and downtime
- Run presses
- Check output and registration at agreed checkpoints
- Control waste and run overs to maintain quality and efficiency
- Monitoring schedules to ensure work runs in the correct order and on time
- Checking materials and consumables are suitable for each job
You will operate and maintain equipment to meet quality standards.
Where you'll work
UNIT 19
HOBLEY DRIVE
STRATTON
SWINDON
SN3 4NS
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)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
Throughout your apprenticeship you will be supported by experienced staff at Eclipse Labels Limited and BPIF Training. Your training will be delivered through onsite and remote sessions at our established plant in Swindon, Wiltshire.
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Positive attitude
- Good time keeping
- Enthusiasm
- Working using own initiative
About this employer
Eclipse Labels is a leading UK label printer, and we aim to offer our customers a quality product with excellent service with our flexibility and professional standards underpinning our quality and service.
We offer both Flexo Print and digital inkjet print using our latest high specification digital inkjet label press. This new technology supports our quality product offering our customers the best in look, feel, quality and price.
Our aims are to:
Offer a professional and exemplary service to our customers with a high level of customer focus.
Offer a fast turnaround service to ensure our client’s delivery needs are met.
Offer excellence in everything we do.
Create a work environment where each person is value and respected.
Continue to build on our business to maintain and develop our position as a market leader.
Delivering customer value and a first rate service to customers are two of our core aims and it reflects our business purpose and philosophy. It underpins our objective to be recognised as a leader in our market and shapes our behaviour and is the basis of our business culture.
We achieve our aims and objectives by:
Empowering our employees by recognising that every employee can contribute to improving our business performance and aim to fulfil their own potential through training and experience.
Continuous improvement in quality of our products, services and processes.
Expanding our customer base, broadening our range of products and services and by driving increased productivity and efficiency in our operations through training and investment in technology.
Complying with statutory, regulatory and other industry requirements.
Ensuring the health, safety and welfare of all our employees by providing the resources necessary to safeguard the working environment to prevent injury and ill health.
We will use our management review process to ensure that our progress and drive for improvement and our business objectives are monitored and reviewed.
https://eclipselabels.com/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Private Health care – (after 4 years of service)
- Contributions towards gym membership
- On-site parking
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
After successful completion of the apprenticeship, you will be offered a full-time permanent position within the company.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPIF TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000048883.
Apply now
Closes in 24 days (Friday 18 September 2026 at 11:59pm)