Detail of the vacancy notice
- Directorate: Directorate for Logistics
- Management: no
- Unit/Service: Printing/Diffusion - Printshop
- Grade: Contract staff member - FGI
- Location: Brussels
- Period: 1 year, starting from 01 March 2025
Upon the completion of the initial contract, including the successful fulfilment of a probationary period, the contract may be renewed for an additional one-year period, after which it may be converted into an indefinite contract, subject to the needs of the service and budgetary availability.
- Application: Online application form
Please note: Candidates preselected for this procedure will be required to pass a written test before the interview with the selection panel. Further details will be provided in the invitation.
- Deadline: 15 January 2025 at noon (Brussels time)
Your job and responsibilities
Interested in joining the printing team working for the two Committees? Like to help your colleagues to get their documents and other products printed in good quality and in time?
As a technical (mainly offset) operator in the printshop unit which is part of the Directorate for Logistics, you are responsible for printing with offset and digital technique, for finishing products and dealing with routine maintenance of the machines.
You organise your printing work in either preparing the offset plates via the Computer to Plate (CTP) system or in dealing with the checking and imposition of the different documents received for digital printing.
You are also responsible for operating different finishing machines (gluing, binding, cutting, laminating etc.)
You are part of the dynamic team of the joint printshop, which consists of around 10 colleagues.
Are you the talent we are looking for?
General abilities and capacities required
- Think with a critical spirit, analyse and solve problems pragmatically.
- Assess critically credibility and reliability of sources, data and information and use relevant digital tools to carry out the duties.
- Organise own work, demonstrate responsibility, identify priorities, take appropriate decisions and deliver results.
- Adapt to an evolving working environment, demonstrate commitment and adopt constructive attitude at all times. Remain effective and flexible even during period of heavy activity.
- Take initiative to achieve individual and shared objectives, demonstrate ownership and work autonomously.
- Learn and professionally develop to continuously enhance job performance and knowledge of the organisation and working environment.
- Work together with others in a constructive way by contributing to diverse and inclusive working environment. Demonstrate respect and courtesy at all times.
- Convey information and relevant opinions clearly and concisely both orally and in writing, facilitate interaction and engage effectively with others. Treat confidential or sensitive information accordingly.
Job-specific requirements
- You have sound experience in printing with different techniques especially in offset and possibly in digital.
- You are able to carry out tasks related to imposition, pagination and planning of complex printing work.
- You are ready to learn positioning and preparing of offset plates via the Computer to Plate (CTP) technique.
- You dispose of knowledge on finishing off publications including: cutting, assembling, stapling, laminating, folding, stitching and binding brochures and publications.
- You are able to perform controls and routine maintenance of printing equipment.
- You have a good sense of initiative and responsibility including polyvalence and availability.
- You have a thorough knowledge of one of the official languages of the European Union and a satisfactory knowledge of another of the EU official languages. For functional reasons, a good level of French is required and a basic level of English and/or Dutch is desirable.
- You have a basic command of IT applications and tools, such as Outlook, Excel, Word, Sharepoint etc.
- You fulfil the physical fitness conditions required for the performance of the duties involved.
Please note that candidates must meet the eligibility criteria specified in art. 82(3) of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants.