Job Information

LOCATION OF (1) POSITION TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES, PRINTING AND MEDIA SERVICES DIVISION, DAVIDSON COUNTY
Working Title:

Production Tech 2 - Transactional Print

This is a third shift position.
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This is an on-site position.

Qualifications

Education and Experience: Education equivalent to graduation from a standard high school and experience equivalent to one year of mail processing, postal services, printing services, production scanning, production work involving setting up, operating, or monitoring machines, bindery machine operation, or hand production work.
Substitution of Experience for Education: Qualifying experience in mail processing, postal services, printing services, production scanning, production work involving setting up, operating or monitoring machines, bindery machine operation, or hand production work may substitute for the required education on a year for year basis.
Substitution of Education for Experience: Additional qualifying coursework at an accredited college, university, technical institute, business school, or vocational or trade school in graphic arts, printing or a related field may be substituted for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.

Necessary Special Qualifications: Certain positions in this class may be required to meet the following requirements:

• Complete a criminal history disclosure form in a manner approved by the appointing authority.
• Agree to release all records involving their criminal history to the appointing authority.
• Supply a fingerprint sample in a manner prescribed by the TBI for a fingerprint based criminal history records check.
• A valid motor vehicle operator license.

Examination Method: Education and Experience, 100%, for Preferred Service positions.

Summary

Summary: Under general supervision, is responsible for production work of average difficulty and performs related work as required.
Distinguishing Features: This is the working level class in the Production series. An employee in this class operates and maintains production machinery. This class differs from that of a Production Technician 1 in that an incumbent of the latter functions at the entry/learning level. This class differs from that of a Production Technician 3 in that an incumbent of the latter is responsible for performing production work of considerable difficulty and leading others.

Responsibilities

1. Operates and maintains mail processing machines: enters data into sorters, inserting machines, and mail metering machines; installs fold plates in the inserting machines; replaces and installs various machine components (e.g. printer heads, ram blades, roller auxiliary feeder); monitors machine during processing of the mail for sufficient inserts, scan mark errors, or machine problems that would cause the machine to jam or stop.

2. Binds paper together using a variety of methods (i.e. punching holes and inserting plastic combs, stitching, gluing and padding and plastic shrink wrapping): collates papers into correct order; cuts paper to correct size and trim finished products; operates bindery machinery; boxes and labels jobs for delivery.

3. Operates and maintains offset, digital sheet fed and/or continuous roll fed press: prepares equipment for processing jobs; changes blankets, photo receptive belts, toner cartridges, waste containers, rollers, roller covers; performs quality checks of correctness of color, ink density, paper size/color, finish and registration; cleans ink fountain, plates and printing unit cylinders; utilizes print impositioning software to manipulate digital files.

4. Scans documents into various platforms: preps work to be scanned; recycles, destroys, or stores files after scanned; types in indexing information for documents.

5. Documents information into electronic tracking systems and/or paper forms to be used for production and operational reports: completes mail processing information forms, technical call sheets, maintenance checklist form, and daily close out forms; records ascending and descending readings from postage meters; completes request form for supplies needed; documents daily impression count; records information on job ticket to verify copies printed, number of plates used and pounds of ink used.

6. Routinely communicates with supervisor to provide information related to machine errors, repairs, and heavy workloads.

Competencies

Competencies:

• Approachability
• Composure
• Customer Focused
• Integrity and Trust
• Listening
• Technical Learning
• Time Management
• Action Oriented
• Functional/Technical Competency

Knowledge:

• Mechanical
• Mathematics
• Production and Processing
• Customer and Personal Service

Skills:

• Equipment Maintenance
• Mathematics
• Operation Control
• Operation Monitoring
• Time Management
• Reading Comprehension

Abilities:

• Finger Dexterity
• Manual Dexterity
• Mathematical Reasoning
• Multilimb Coordination
• Visual Color Discrimination
• Rate Control
• Speech Recognition
• Static Strength
• Trunk Strength
• Written Comprehension
• Oral Comprehension
• Oral Expression
• Stamina

Tools & Equipment

• Computer
• Telephone
• Printer
• Basic Hand Tools (i.e. wrench, screw driver, pliers)
• Hand Held Power Tools (i.e. drills, grinders)
• Stitcher
• Collator
• Large Paper Cutters
• Multiple Fold Folder
• Trimmer Machinery
• Off-Set Printing Presses
• Digital Printing Presses
• Continuous Printing Presses
• High Speed Computerized/Electronic Mail Machinery