Launch and hide invisible program at startup

Hi,
I have been looking round various forums but cant find an answer. Hopefully someone can help.
Problem:
We have 20 computers that all need to run a program at login (Its a 3d render client). We need the program not to appear in the dock so I have edited the .plist file in the package contents thus making the program run without a dock or taskbar. However, the actual program window remains, allowing users to close the program.
What I need:
To open the program on startup, be invisible and hide itself.
I have tried a few scripts that launch it on startup. This works, but the next line doenst work to hide the program. I believe this is because the program is invisible (making it a background task) the finder command to hide or minimise has no effect.
I have also tried the simple procedure of adding it to startup items and checking "hide".
Any help would be most appreciated.

Its a client piece of software that allows 3d images from maxons cinema 4d to be rendered across a network. Under normal circumstances there would be no need to have this program running in the background or for it to be invisible to the dock. However. As everyone logs on in the morning this software starts on their machine. Their first instinct is to close it, which means that if I was to submit a job to the network it would not distribute it to the machines whose window has been closed. I want the software to start but be hidden so it cant be closed.
The only window that opens is a type of status/console window. So it would say what jobs are currently rendering or which have finished etc.

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