Bindery Job Description
Bindery Duties & Responsibilities
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Bindery Qualifications
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Education for Bindery
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the bindery job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as High School and Bachelor's Degree in Technical, Manufacturing, Education, Communication, Math, General Education, Business, Engineering, Graduate, Arts
Skills for Bindery
Desired skills for bindery include:
Desired experience for bindery includes:
Bindery Examples
Bindery Job Description
- Loading bundles of paper into a bindery machine
- Catching and sorting finished product by zip code
- Performing some hand work, as necessary
- May run other equipment as assigned by the Supervisor
- Reads work order or follows verbal instructions to ascertain materials or components
- Responsible for laying up, feeding or piling down materials at equipment
- Jog product off counter stacker and stack neatly on skid to assure good running in bindery or mailing department
- Separate signatures by hand based on customer specifications
- Complete skid flags and packaging slips to ensure accurate tracking
- Install strapping, bracing, or padding to prevent shifting or damage in transit, using hand tools
- Functional knowledge of PC (keyboard functions, mouse)
- Knowledge of campus locations, PC operation, Qtrak operation
- Able to work overtime as needed based on the work load
- Good verbal and written comprehension, the ability to thrive in a team environment, and work independently
- The ability to work days, nights, weekends and holidays is required
- Prior manufacturing experience (such as laborer, assembly, or distribution) required
Bindery Job Description
- Train staff on proper procedures and techniques
- May occasionally operate automated equipment and/or industrial truck or electric hoist to assist in loading or moving materials and products
- Other duties as assigned in the printing, bindery and fulfillment areas
- Operate Buam Stahl Equipment
- Operate Programmable Cutting Machine
- Operate Folder and Sheetfed Folder Machines
- Maintain Stock of Folded Materials
- Light Maintenance of Bindery Machinery
- Maintain clean area & assist in clean-up of machines
- Recognizes and solves problems affecting production including schedules, staff, quality, yield, and order of production line
- High school/GED and/or 5-7 years experience in a manufacturing environment required
- Previous experience working on Polar cutters,MBO folders,Harris stitcher highly preferred
- Perform minor repairs and preventative maintenance on bindery equipment
- Provide feedback to Production Scheduler if the proposed schedule is unrealistic
- Correct and/or report any unsafe conditions
- Suggest ideas for company wide continuous improvement
Bindery Job Description
- Develops and administers metrics, budgets, schedules, and performance standards
- Resolve production issues that arise and keep management informed of issues
- Work with other department managers such as QA, Production, Planning to resolve difficult or recurring production problems
- Must be able to work with a variety of machines, first ensuring that they are in good working order
- Bundling and stacking of product as it comes off of the machine
- Assisting in the shipping process of orders that have come off the line
- A bindery operator must be able to work with stamping, stitching, trimming, pressing and binding machines
- Must have a keen eye for quality control
- Read and understand job tickets and any special instructions that have been noted
- Responsible for loading paper jogger product for cutting equipment
- Prefer familiarity with basic mathematics
- Skill in making adjustments to powered machines using hand tools
- Previous experience with Stitching required
- Must be able to operate computers efficiently
- Previous experience with cutting necessary
- Must be willing to work second shift
Bindery Job Description
- Responsible for feeding or gathering materials on or off the folder and saddle stitch equipment
- Package finished product in designated boxes to prevent any damage to the product
- Create load tags and labels with the correct quantities and description of job
- Identify product defects and follow ECG's quality assurance processes
- Inserts illustrated pages, extra sheets, and collated sets into catalogs, periodicals, directories, pocket portfolios, or loose leaf binders, and inserts sheets and applies labels to envelopes or periodicals by hand or machine
- Wraps product in plastic, using shrink-wrapping machine, packs products in boxes, and tapes lids of boxes shut
- Fastens sheets, signatures, or other printed materials together, using hand or machine stapler, or adjusts or tends machine that inserts wire or plastic binding strips into punched holes to fasten pages and covers together
- Manages the daily operations and growth of EVOKE, a print studio
- Responsible for budget management of revenue and expenditures
- Oversees all money received, processing department invoices for payment, and keeping accurate records of income and expenses
- 6 months to 1 year previous experience in the operation of bindery equipment required
- Cutting/folding experience required
- Seeking a candidate that has 5-7 years of experience in operating Mueller Martini Stitchers
- Candidate will have at least 3 years of experience as a Lead operator
- A minimum of 2-3 years large format Cutter, Folder, Saddle Stitcher, Perfect Binding Operator experience required
- Loading pockets on binder/stitcher
Bindery Job Description
- Oversees the daily production of all digital printing & finishing jobs by setting up equipment
- Maintain a web based workflow for clients
- Mentors staff through leadership development and continued educational opportunities
- Provides vision and strategic planning for increased growth in sales and services provided
- Creates and implements marketing plan and campaigns
- Promotes excellence in customer service
- Coordinates and schedules technical training for all staff
- Monitors and cultivates vendor relationships
- Develops and prepares bids and product reports for future equipment purchase
- Organize workforce during regular hours or in an extra hour’s situation
- Off loading books onto pallets
- Sorting and stacking mail
- Hand assembly inserting
- Assists various Machine Operators in the routine aspects of packaging finished print material
- Will learn to operate various printing production machines to complete assigned duties
- Communicates to machine operator any quality concerns