Robert Heitzer studied printing technology at the University of Applied Science in Munich. Since 1996, he has been working at the printing plant at the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich. Heitzer was responsible for different projects including the re-investment press, automation of paper-roll handling process and retrofit projects. Moreover, he was interim Technical Director at the printing plant Frankenpost in Hof, a subsidiary of Süddeutscher Verlag.

Currently, he is managing the printing department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, where Germany´s most popular daily Newspapers (Süddeutsche Zeitung, BILD, WELT, FAZ, Handelsblatt ) as well as Sunday Newspapers ( BamS, Frankfurter Sonntagszeitung and WELT am Sonntag) are being produced.