Print, Bindery & Mailing Technician
Location:
Amherst, MA
Open Date:
Oct 19, 2018
Description:
Amherst College invites applications for the Print, Bindery & Mailing Technician position. The Print, Bindery & Mailing Technician is a full time, year round position, job group and level AO-2. The Print, Bindery & Mailing Technician assists in preparing, processing, and completing printed and postal jobs following UPS, USPS and Amherst College guidelines, and operates various bindery machines along with the Xante digital envelope press. The person in this position manages multiple priorities, tasks and projects; meets deadlines on a daily basis; and is committed to quality and excellent customer service. Takes appropriate actions to support a diverse workforce and participates in the College’s efforts to create a respectful, inclusive, and welcoming work environment.
Key Responsibilities
Print Production/Bindery Operations
- Handles various machines and equipment and performs any combination of following tasks involved in folding and binding books, periodicals, pamphlets, and assembling related printed materials in accordance with work order specifications: Punches holes in paper sheets, manually or by machine.
- Fastens sheets, or other printed materials together, using hand or machine stapler, or adjusts or handles machine that inserts wire or plastic binding strips into punched holes to fasten pages and covers together. Feeds covers and sheets into various machines for collating, stitching, trimming, folding, stapling, gluing and perforating operations. Removes, stacks, and packs printed material in various stages of completion as it accumulates on delivery table of machines.
- Examines stitched, collated, bound, and unbound publications to ascertain that pages are bound in numerical or folio order according to sample copy,