Employment

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• Editorial • Advertising Sales • Print Sales Consultant • Bindery • Web Press Operator • Sheet Fed Press Operator • Graphic Design • Multi Media / Web Design • Driver / Delivery • Office Administration

Position Profile

POSITION: Bindery Worker
REPORTS TO: Production Manager
NAME: Ron Demone

Position Summary:
Collate newspaper sections, collate flyers into papers

Position Responsibilities:
1. Ensures the papers are collated accurately
2. Ensures the papers are trimmed accurately and to the right size
3. Stitches the bundles
4. Removes papers from the press
5. Coiling books together
6. Shrink wrapping papers prior to distribution
7. Labels papers for delivery
8. Uses the folder machinery to fold the papers to put them into books

Position Requirements:
• High School diploma
• A minimum of 6 months of related experience in a production environment

Decision Making:
• Determines delivery priorities when press run is late and after hours
• Determines staffing requirements for jobs
• Determines the appropriate sizes to trim a book
• Determines what flyers go together
• Determines what areas get appropriate flyers

Responsibility for Work of Others:
This position does not supervise other employees

Communications:
Internal:
• Production Manager regarding work schedules
• Circulation Manager regarding distribution and delivery of newspapers

External:
• Delivery drivers regarding incoming and outgoing supplies

Effort:
• Removing presses
• Lifting bundles into cages
• Moving and lifting boxes and flyers
• Use of tools such as wing mailer; cutter; stitcher; strapper
• Lifting more than 10 pounds on a weekly basis

Working Conditions:
• Emotionally charged situations due to the constant deadlines in a newspaper environment
• Constant noises and smells from press