Bindery Specialist

AlphaGraphics San Marcos; Garner (NC); On-site; USD 30,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Compensation

Flexible Scheduling

Career path development

Team collaboration and fun

Job summary

AlphaGraphics is seeking a Bindery Specialist to join our tight-knit team in a full-time role. You will operate bindery equipment, inspect finished products for quality, and prepare items for shipping, contributing to efficient production and excellent customer service.

The role emphasizes collaboration, reliability, and hands-on operation of various finishing machines within a fast-paced printing environment. Experience is welcome, with training provided by the franchise.

Qualifications

• Ability to read work orders and follow machine setup instructions.
• Attention to detail to identify defects and quality issues.
• Ability to apply general rules to specific production tasks.
• Good math and measurement skills for trimming and alignment.
• Ability to maintain daily production records and packing steps.

Responsibilities

• Examine samples for binding defects and quality issues.
• Read work orders to determine machine setup and specifications.
• Adjust bindery equipment (knives, guides, rollers) for the required size.
• Trim edges to size using cutting machines or hand cutters.
• Stitch or glue endpapers and bindings using sewing and glue machines.
• Monitor machines for malfunctions and performance adjustments.
• Maintain daily production records on specified forms.
• Prepare finished books for shipping and stacking on pallets.
• Set up glue machines and control glue flow and speed.
• Support overall team output and customer service quality.

Skills

Critical thinking

Communication

Logical reasoning

Organizational skills

Spatial awareness

Job description

Benefits/Perks

• Competitive Compensation
• Flexible Scheduling
• Hard work, collaboration, humanity, fun, and laughter
• Career path development

Company Overview

As an established leader in the Printing, Marketing, and Design industries our mission is to partner with customers from Mom-and-Pop shops to Fortune 50 organizations and provide them with the tools and expertise needed to grow their businesses.

Our tight-knit team in AlphaGraphics - US698 is actively seeking a Bindery Specialist to join us full time. Our Bindery Specialist is primarily responsible for operating various machines and equipment to finish products that have been printed so they can be delivered.

More than anything, we’re looking for highly-collaborative and dependable teammates that are driven by the opportunity to contribute to the success of a local business. We are a small, passionate, and fast-paced team that is fully invested in the success of our company, and we value contributions from each team member.

What We Expect Of You

• Examine stitched, collated, bound, or unbound product samples for defects, such as imperfect bindings, ink spots, torn pages, loose pages, or loose or uncut threads.
• Read work orders to determine instructions and specifications for machine set-up.
• Install or adjust bindery machine devices, such as knives, guides, rollers, rounding forms, creasing rams, or clamps, to accommodate sheets, signatures, or books of specified sizes.
• Trim edges of books to size, using cutting machines, book trimming machines, or hand cutters.
• Stitch or glue endpapers, bindings, backings, or signatures, using sewing machines, glue machines, or glue and brushes.
• Monitor machine operations to detect malfunctions or to determine whether adjustments are needed.
• Maintain records, such as daily production records, using specified forms.
• Prepare finished books for shipping by wrapping or packing books and stacking boxes on pallets.
• Set up or operate glue machines by filling glue reservoirs, turning switches to activate heating elements, or adjusting glue flow or conveyor speed.
• Other essential functions are needed to provide the highest quality customer service and product output.

What You Bring To The Table

• The ability to apply Critical thinking using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.

The employer posting this position, evaluating potential candidates, and making all hiring decisions is an independently owned and operated AlphaGraphics, Inc. franchisee. If hired, Franchisee will be your employer, not AlphaGraphics, Inc. or any of its affiliates or any other franchisees.

At AlphaGraphics, we offer careers for everyone! Whether you are just starting out, looking for that next great growth opportunity, or seeking a change, we have exciting roles to suit you.

We pride ourselves on our training programs in management, sales, operations, print, signs, design, and marketing. Join us with or without experience, and we will succeed together as a team!

• AlphaGraphics centers (locations) are independently owned and operated. The posted positions are offered by individual franchisees who interview, hire, manage and pay the employees hired for positions in a specific local location (center) through their specific business.