Bindery Specialist

AlphaGraphics; West Jordan (UT); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Health insurance

Paid time off

Training & development

Opportunity for advancement

Competitive salary

Job summary

AlphaGraphics is seeking a dependable Bindery Specialist for our West Jordan, UT operations. The role operates bindery equipment to finish printed products and prepares them for shipping. You will inspect samples, set up machines, trim, stitch or glue components, and monitor production quality.

Join a small, collaborative team that values precision, reliability, and customer service. This full-time position offers growth opportunities, competitive pay, 401(k), health insurance, and paid time off.

Qualifications

• Detail-oriented with attention to binding quality checks.
• Ability to read work orders and follow specifications.
• Capability to set up and adjust bindery equipment.
• Experience with trimming, stitching, and gluing bindings is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Examine products for defects and ensure quality.
• Read work orders to determine machine setup.
• Install or adjust bindery devices to accommodate sizes.
• Trim edges of books to size using cutting machines.
• Stitch or glue endpapers, bindings, or signatures.
• Monitor machine operations and troubleshoot issues.
• Maintain daily production records.
• Prepare finished jobs for shipping and palletize.
• Operate machines and manage flow/conveyor speed.
• Perform other duties to deliver high-quality output.

Skills

Critical thinking

Communication

Apply general rules

Organize tasks

Spatial reasoning

Job description

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.

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Opportunity for advancement
• Paid time off
• Training & development

BENEFITS/PERKS:

• Competitive Compensation
• Hard work, collaboration, fun!
• 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 West Jordan 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. Detail-oriented work!
• 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, or clamps, to accommodate sheets, signatures, or books of specified sizes.
• Trim edges of books to size, using cutting machines, book trimming machines.
• Stitch or glue endpapers, bindings, backings, or signatures, using 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 jobs for shipping by wrapping or packing books and stacking boxes on pallets.
• Set up or operate machines, turning switches to activate elements, or adjusting 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.

• 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.