PRINT LARGE FORMAT PRODUCTION MANAGER

📍 Melbourne | Full-Time | Senior-Level Opportunity

Inspired Printing is seeking an experienced Production Manager with strong knowledge of
large-format and digital print and signage production.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who understands that production is about more than operating machinery — it is about managing people, workflow, priorities, quality, communication and deadlines.

At Inspired Printing, one of the most important responsibilities of this role is simple:

Meet printing due dates and deliver to clients on time, every time.

You will take responsibility for the day-to-day management of our print production department.

You will sit at the centre of our production workflow, coordinating jobs between Sales, Account Managers, production staff, finishing, suppliers and management.

A key part of this role is to bring the Sales and Production teams together, ensuring everyone is working from the same information, understands customer expectations and is aligned on priorities, deadlines and production capabilities.

You will:

• Manage the daily production workflow across digital print and large-format production
• Take ownership of production schedules and customer delivery deadlines
• Create and manage WIP using PrintIQ production boards
• Review production priorities continuously throughout the day
• Allocate work to production staff based on deadlines, capacity and job requirements
• Identify potential delays before they become problems
• Coordinate overtime when required, particularly during peak production periods
• Communicate closely with Sales, Account Managers and management
• Build a strong working relationship between the Sales and Production teams
• Ensure Sales and Account Managers have clear and accurate information regarding production capacity, lead times and job status
• Ensure Production receives complete and accurate information from Sales before jobs proceed
• Help resolve communication gaps between Sales and Production before they impact customers or deadlines
• Coordinate priorities between customer expectations and realistic production capacity
• Encourage a collaborative, solution-focused approach between Sales and Production
• Maintain quality, efficiency and accountability across production
• Ensure customer orders are completed correctly and delivered on time

The Production Manager will play an important role in creating one team across Sales and Production, with both departments working towards the same goal — delivering quality work, meeting customer expectations and achieving deadlines.

Your ability to organise production, communicate across departments and keep multiple jobs moving simultaneously will directly influence customer satisfaction and the overall performance of the business.

You come from a busy digital print, large-format, signage or commercial print environment and know how to keep production moving under pressure.

You bring:

✔ Strong large-format and digital print experience
✔ Experience leading production staff
✔ Strong scheduling and workflow management skills
✔ Confidence managing urgent jobs and competing deadlines
✔ Knowledge of substrates, finishing and production processes
✔ Experience with MIS systems — PrintIQ highly regarded
✔ Strong communication, problem-solving and decision-making skills
✔ A strong focus on quality, efficiency and delivery

You always know:

What is being produced?
What is due next?
Who owns it?
Is it on track?
What needs to happen now?

Run day-to-day print production operations
• Manage workflow across all print orders
• Create and maintain WIP using PrintIQ production boards
• Prioritise jobs based on deadlines, capacity and customer commitments
• Allocate work and manage production staff workloads
• Bring Sales, Account Management and Production together around priorities and delivery expectations
• Identify delays and bottlenecks early and take action
• Coordinate overtime when required, especially during peak periods
• Maintain clear communication with staff, management and Account Managers
• Manage stock, materials and production consumables
• Maintain quality standards and minimise waste and reprints
• Ensure completed work meets specifications before dispatch
• Continuously improve workflow, productivity and production efficiency

Production Leadership

This is not a desk-only role.

You will actively manage the production floor, stay across every critical job and take ownership of delivery.

If a deadline is at risk — act early.
If priorities change — reset the workflow.
If production needs extra resources — make it happen.
If there is a problem — own it and solve it.

Our Expectations

Inspired Printing operates in a fast-moving, deadline-driven environment.

Our expectation is clear:

DEADLINES. QUALITY. COMMUNICATION. ACCOUNTABILITY.

Jobs must be planned, monitored and managed throughout the day to ensure we deliver what we promised our clients.

• Direct access to business owners and decision-makers
• Genuine authority over production workflow
• Lead an experienced production team
• Fast-paced digital and large-format print environment
• Modern systems including PrintIQ
• Opportunity to improve production processes and efficiencies
• Long-term career growth

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Full-time senior production leadership role
• Real responsibility and decision-making authority
• Opportunity to shape production systems and workflow
• A growing Melbourne print business

You are:

• Highly organised
• Deadline driven
• Calm under pressure
• A strong communicator
• Respectful but accountable
• Proactive and decisive
• Quality focused
• Comfortable leading people
• Focused on results

Most importantly, you take ownership.

The job is not finished until the customer's order is produced correctly and delivered on time.

If you know how to lead people, control production and keep a busy print operation moving, we want to hear from you.