Bindery Operator (2nd Shift)

Sets up and operates equipment to fold, cut and/or stitch printed product to customer specifications.

• →None

• →Performs other related duties as assigned.
• →Demonstrates the behaviors of punctuality, regular attendance, professionalism towards supervisors and co-workers, and self-directed task completion.
• →Maintains clean work area.
• →Must comply with all departmental SOP's (Standard Operating Procedures), company GMP's (Good Manufacturing Practices), Employee Handbook Policies, including attendance, and all safety rules and standards.
• →Works normal shift hours and overtime as required.
• →Coordinates efforts as part of the team to provide assistance to all co-workers in all departments to maximize production efficiencies as needed.
• →Must have the ability to read a standard ruler to 1/32" and a metric ruler to 1 mm.
• →Sets up equipment to accomplish non-complex jobs. Secures approval before running jobs and seeks assistance as needed. 
• →Trains co-workers and new hires to set up, operate and use equipment.
• →Monitors equipment and adjusts as needed to maintain quality.
• →Requires the constant and careful handling of finished printed sheets and product that can become heavy and hard to handle.
• →Works closely with others to ensure work meets ship dates and deadlines.
• →Reads job jackets to understand customer requirements and needs.
• →Maintains equipment by performing routine maintenance and cleaning of equipment.
• →Keeps scrap gathered and in scrap bins.
• →Operates hand tools and hand trucks.
• →Must be able to work independently, without assistance.
• →Feeds covers, signatures, and sheets into various machines for collating, stitching, trimming, folding, ruling, stapling, roughing, indexing, gluing, and perforating operations.
• →Examines stitched, collated, bound, and unbound publications to ascertain that pages are bound in numerical or folio order according to sample copy, and for such defects as imperfect bindings, ink spots, torn, loose, and uneven pages, and loose and uncut threads.
• →Wraps product in plastic, using shrink-wrapping machine, packs products in boxes or tubs for transport to booklet press area.
• →Manually records daily production time sheet accurately.
• →Records job data into PRMS.

• Must be able to work collaboratively with co-workers.
• Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment.
• Ability to read, write and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos.
• Ability to address issues involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to effectively communicate ideas, information and or work assignments with co-workers and management as needed.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent.
• Ability to read a standard ruler to 1/32” and a metric ruler to 1mm.

High school diploma or equivalent.

Regularly required to stand and reach with hands and arms. 

Frequently required to walk; stoop, kneel, crouch and talk or hear. 

Frequently lift and/or carry up to 50 pounds and push/pull up to 125 pounds. 

Requires constant movement and bending. 

Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, dust, chemicals and vibration.

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.