# #1 Operator in Bindery

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Location**: Eagan, MN
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $23 USD - $43 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

We are hiring an experienced #1/Lead Bindery Operator for our printing plant team in Eagan, Minnesota. As a #1 Bindery Operator, you will be responsible for the performance of the production line and crew on our Core Print Solutions team. For this role, you would also be eligible for a $2,500 sign-on bonus upon being in the role for 90 days.

**Hours of Work – Eagan, Minnesota**

- 2nd shift – 2:30 pm – 10:30 pm

- Occasional overtime up to 4 hours per day and occasional weekend shifts

**About the Role** In this opportunity as a #1 Operator in Bindery, you will be responsible for:

- Providing leadership, work direction, and training/developing the skills of the crew to consistently optimize overall performance

- Ensuring that the line is running smoothly and producing a quality product for our customers

- Facilitating Tier 1 meetings and Gemba Walk discussions to drive communication and improvements to the processes associated with the equipment

- Training for crew members who are temps or are coming in from another area to support workload

- Motivating others and creating a team environment

**About You** You're a fit for the role of #1 Operator in Bindery if your background includes:

- Possess a High School Diploma/GED or higher. Candidates with a vocational/technical degree are strongly preferred

- Experience leading and training others

- Experience working in an industrial setting with a wide range of production machinery

- Strong mechanical and technical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot, make decisions and resolve machine issues

- Experience with Lean and continuous improvement

- Good communication skills including experience sharing information across shifts and departments

- Proven success as a trainer

- Able to run multiple pieces of equipment

- Experience as a Lead on Perfect Binders with up to 40 station collators, 3-knife trimmers, inline boxing and palletizing

- Experience with hard-cover casing-in lines, collating/kitting lines with up to 30 streamfeeder stations, packaging/cartooning lines, Sitma mail lines and hot foil stampers

- Able to read, interpret and explain documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and production orders

- Can regularly lift at least 5 lbs. above the shoulder as well as push, pull and lift at least 10 lbs occasionally up to 50 lbs

- Can regularly stand, walk, crouch, bend, reach and kneel

- Can wear Personal Protective Equipment including steel toe shoes and ear protection

**What's in it For You?**

- Compensation: 2nd shift differential of $4.00 per hour, 3rd shift differential of $5.00 per hour, and a bonus plan

- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities

- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions

- Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include 3 weeks vacation, 10 sick days, 9 company holidays, 3 floating days, uniform and laundry service, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing

- Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more

- Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute

- Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency

## Skills

### Required
- Lean
- continuous improvement
- mechanical
- technical
- troubleshooting
- communication
- training
- leadership
- production machinery

### Nice to have
- vocational/technical degree
- experience with Perfect Binders
- hard-cover casing-in lines
- collating/kitting lines
- packaging/cartooning lines
- Sitma mail lines
- hot foil stampers

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