Production Manager #57

Target Hiring Range: $140,000-$150,000

Department: Support Operations Posting Date Range: 4/3/2026-4/17/2026 Pay Grade Range: $130469-$181570

Work Hours: 9:00am-6:00pm

FLSA Status: Exempt

Remote Work Status: Onsite

The Senate Sergeant at Arms does not pay for relocation expenses.

This vacancy announcement closes at 7pm EST. Late applications will not be accepted.

Job Description

JOB OVERVIEW

The Target Hiring Range for this position is: $140,000-$150,000

The Senate Sergeant at Arm’s (SAA), Printing Graphics and Direct Mail (PGDM) department is pleased to announce an opportunity for a skilled and motivated Production Manager to lead printing operations at their Landover, Maryland, Print Facility (LPF). This role provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure the consistent delivery of high-quality printed materials for Senate offices that meet organizational standards, customer expectations, and production timelines.

The Production Manager oversees a broad portfolio of products, including books, stationery, programs, banners, displays, floor charts, business cards, memo pads, certificates, mass mailers, credentials, and other specialty print materials. This position leads a highly skilled production team operating a wide range of printing, bindery, and mailing equipment, providing direct supervision to Reprographic Supervisors and indirect oversight of production staff. Success in this role requires strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, along with the ability to build collaborative relationships with customers, staff, and senior leadership.

Serving as a critical operational link between PGDM’s Landover, Maryland and Capitol Hill printing facilities, the Production Manager ensures seamless coordination of workflows, equipment utilization, and technology to achieve efficient, cost-effective, and high-quality results. Responsibilities include overseeing daily production activities, ensuring customer requests are completed accurately and on schedule, and coordinating the timely routing and return of finished materials to Capitol Hill for pickup or delivery without disruption or delay.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on, forward-thinking leader with extensive experience in printing, bindery, and direct mail production environments. This role requires the ability to plan, coordinate, assign, and evaluate staff work while maintaining compliance with departmental policies, organizational standards, and applicable regulations, including regulations set by the Senate Rules Committee and the Senate Committee on Ethics.

If you are a dedicated professional passionate about printing, graphics and direct mail, with proven leadership and operational expertise, we encourage you to apply. Your skills and experience can play a vital role in advancing service quality, operational excellence, and the value delivered to the Senate community.

Key Accountabilities/Essential Job Duties

Leads and directs section employees through supervisors, ensuring compliance with policies. Oversee all personnel matters, including performance evaluations, hiring and promotion recommendations, disciplinary actions, and staff training and development. Contributes to short- and long-term planning for staffing, equipment, and maintenance, and ensure effective implementation to maintain uninterrupted services. Researches and recommends technologies supporting printing, mailing, publishing, logistics, and record-keeping functions. Advises on technology direction, manage major technical projects, and oversee service enhancements. Develops and monitors the department’s operating budget, analyzes financial reports, and manages procurement activities. Ensures materials, equipment, staffing, and resources are properly planned and aligned to meet job specifications, production schedules, quality standards, and delivery commitments for print and mailing projects. Other duties, as assigned.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Required Education

High School Diploma/ GED.

Other Duties/ Responsibilities

• Serves as Operations Manager in his/her absence.
  
  

Required Work Experience

• Eight years of experience, including at least three years of experience managing a comparably sized printing operation or general services department.
  
  

Required Special Skills/ Knowledge

• As part of our hiring process, we may conduct a skills assessment to better understand an applicant’s proficiency in key areas relevant to the role.
• In-depth knowledge of printing and bindery methods, enabling effective planning and management of production workflows to ensure high-quality output.
• Strong troubleshooting skills to quickly identify and resolve issues related to production processes, materials, and workflow bottlenecks, minimizing delays and maintaining quality standards.
• Knowledge of, or ability to learn, departmental rules, regulations, procedures and functions, including policies and regulations set by the Senate Rules Committee and the Senate Committee on Ethics.
• Knowledge of, or ability to learn, PGDM production and work order entry system.
• Knowledge of, or ability to learn, USPS mailing regulations.
• Knowledge of equipment, computers and relevant software/Web applications, and spreadsheets and databases.
• Ability to schedule equipment, personnel, and services requirements to ensure customer requirements are met.
• Knowledge of all aspects of managing printing/mailing or publishing operations.
• Ability to supervise, plan, coordinate, assign, direct and evaluate the work of production professional, and managerial staff.
• Ability to formulate and manage a large budget.
• Ability to conduct research and accurately prepare and process a variety of executive reports, records and documents.
• Ability to allocate resources effectively to meet productivity and organizational goals and objectives.
• Ability to manage multiple responsibilities and adhere to strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment to meet productivity and organizational goals and objectives.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with Senate office and committee staffs, the public, and SAA directors, managers, supervisors, and subordinates.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
  
  

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with supervising, training, evaluating and discipline of staff members. Ability to delegate assignments and manage projects in a timely manner.
• Experience in writing and conducting employee performance evaluations, providing positive and constructive feedback, and implementing performance improvement plans to foster a positive and productive work environment.
• Ability to manage overall operations and is responsible for the safety, efficient, and successful management of staff, productivity, and production quality as established by PGDM.
• Ability to create and manage efficient staff rotation schedules across multiple print facilities to ensure seamless production continuity and optimize workforce utilization.
• Experience managing production schedules, quality control, and inventory management.
• Knowledge of the practical application of technologies used in the printing industry to include the principles, techniques, procedures, and knowledge of print production processes including Prepress, Offset Press Operations,
• Digital Operations, Finishing Operations, Direct Mail, Wide Format Printing, fulfillment, and delivery.
• In-depth knowledge of printing styles and imposition techniques, including work and turn, work and tumble, sheetwise, and perfecting, to optimize material usage and production efficiency.
• Comprehensive knowledge of USPS regulations to ensure compliance and streamline mailing processes for print materials.
• Ability to multitask and adapt to changing priorities, with a detail-oriented approach and the capacity to quickly learn and pivot in line with departmental initiatives and directives.
• The ideal candidate will be adept at establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with internal customers, external vendors, and resources.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
  
  

Working Conditions

• Since this position requires onsite presence in support of the U.S. Senate when in session, this position requires the employee to be available and prepared to work during a lapse, in inclement weather, on holidays, and during late night, overnight, and weekend sessions. In the context of government furloughs, this position is considered excepted.
• This position directly supports essential services of the U.S. Senate. As such, this position requires the employee be available and prepared to work during a lapse, in inclement weather, on holidays, weekends, and during late nights to ensure essential services to the Senate continue without interruption. In the context of government furloughs, this position is considered excepted.
• The U.S. Senate network cannot be taken offline for maintenance during the workday, or while the Senate is in session. As such, maintenance windows may only occur at night, on weekends, and occasionally on holidays. Employees who perform systems upgrades, maintenance, wiring, backups, support our alternate data centers will have schedules that include working nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position to operate a computer and other office productivity machinery.
• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to confer with customers and staff.
• Frequently moves boxes/ equipment weighing less than 50 pounds for various needs.
• This position may require the incumbent to be available for sudden recall in response to emergency events affecting the Senate campus/community, which may include after-hour or weekend work, and to potentially deploy to alternate sites in support of the Senate’s contingency operations.
  
  

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

To be employed by a Senate employing office in a paid position in the continental United States an individual must:

• Be a U.S. citizen;
• Be lawfully admitted for permanent residence and seeking citizenship as outlined in 8 U.S.C.
• 1324b(a)(3)(B);
• Be (i) admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C.
• 1157 or granted asylum under 8 U.S.C.
• 1158 and (ii) have filed a declaration of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and then a citizen when eligible; or
• Owe allegiance to the U.S. (i.e., qualify as a non-citizen U.S. national under federal law).
  
  

Employment is contingent on background / security investigation results.

Benefits At-a-glance

The SAA provides a highly competitive benefits package for all SAA staff. Our benefits extend beyond health care coverage to help provide employees with student loan reimbursement, professional development, transportation subsidy, TSP/retirement savings, access to our Employee Assistance Program, and more! For more information regarding SAA’s benefits, please visit https://sen.gov/OPPW .

ACCOMMODATIONS

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the SAA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAA and need special assistance or an accommodation to complete the application process, please submit your request to employment@saa.senate.gov with “Accommodation” in the subject line.

VOLUNTARY SELF-IDENTIFICATION FOR VETERANS' PREFERENCE

If you are identifying as veterans' preference eligible under the VEOA, please use this link to complete your application for Veterans' Preference AFTER you apply for this position. The link will also be available on the "Thank You" page after you have submitted your job application.

Candidates only need to apply one time for veterans’ preference to be considered for all future veterans’ preference positions within the Senate Sergeant at Arms.

• All supporting documents must ONLY be provided within the Veterans’ Preference Application and within the stated deadline of the job announcement.
• Late applications for veterans’ preference will not be considered.
• Documentation to obtain veterans’ preference will not be considered if attached to the job application.
• If you need to revise or resubmit your Application for Veterans' Preference/documents, please withdraw your previous Application for Veterans' Preference and resubmit. If you require assistance, please email SAARecruitment@saa.senate.gov .
• To view additional information regarding the VEOA, please click here .
  
  

An applicant who declines to self-identify as a disabled veteran and/or to provide information and documentation regarding his/her disabled veteran’s status will not be subjected to an adverse employment action, but the individual may be ruled ineligible for veterans’ preference.