Bindery Operator

**Job ID**: 61360 **Job Category**:Communications & Marketing **Division & Section**:City Clerk's, City Clerk's Member Svcs & Prog Support **Work Location**:2 Hobson Ave, Toronto, M4A 1B3 **Job Type & Duration**:1 Full Time Temporary (9 month) Vacancy **Hourly Rate and Wage Grade**:$30.04 - $32.78 **Shift Information**: Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week **Affiliation**: L79 Full Time **Number of Positions Open**:1 **Posting Period**: 19-Jan-2026 to 2-Feb-2026 **Major Responsibilities**: - Sets up, operates and maintains binding equipment to complete printed materials. - Sets up, operates and maintains the high speed/volume photocopier to support the production of materials for city divisions. - Sets up and operates bindery machines and other equipment to drill, cut, round corners, punch, staple, cerlox and heat bind printed materials. - Sets up and operates hydraulic guillotine to cut stock from reams by calculating sequence of cuts and required size before and after printing. - Loads paper feeder for large format press. - Sets up and operates high-speed right-angle folder to perforate, score, slit and fold. - Sets up, maintains and operates saddlestitching equipment to create books. - Counts and bands printed material. - Operates collator to collate, stitch and fold printed material. - Makes pads by backboarding specified number of sheets, cutting and painting with glue. - Checks pages and assembles into book form for divisions. - Maintains, lubricates, makes repairs and adjustments to machinery. Removes and installs guillotine blades. - Parcels completed jobs by operating Banding machine, packaging completed materials for shipping into boxes or pallets for pickup by couriers. - Completes packing slips and processes for delivery, including coordinating external couriers with the Metro Hall courier desk as required. - Uses and performs daily checks on hydraulic lift truck to relocate paper/materials. - Verifies incoming and outgoing materials and directs products to appropriate locations, confirming delivery information, and communicating with clients and informing them of the delivery status of their work. - Manually lifts boxes of material for receiving and shipping. - Follows all safety requirements pertaining to the position and business unit, including maintaining the shipping/loading and prep area. - Enters time spent on projects in docket and electronic tracking system. **Key Qualifications**: - Experience performing book binding functions in a production environment. - Experience in the operation of a large format folder with double right angles. - Experience in the operation of a programmable hydraulic large format guillotine (paper cutter) using a loader, jogger and an unloader/stacker. - Demonstrated experience in operating a Collator and Muller Martini 6 pocket saddlestitcher. - Experience handling and jogging large size press sheets (19" x 25" and up). - Experience communicating with clients and coordinating the distribution of printed materials to multiple locations. **You must also have**: - Knowledge of set up procedures for various folders to produce different signature forms. - Knowledge of imposition page layout to facilitate in the production of various printed materials. - Ability to perform minor maintenance and repairs to equipment. - Knowledge of paper types including various grains and weights. - Ability to operate various equipment such as banding machines, laminators, binding machines, stitchers, paper drills and punches necessary in the operation of a reproduction/distribution service. - An ability to work independently while adhering to all safety requirements pertaining to the position and unit. **NOTE TO INTERNAL FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME CITY OF TORONTO EMPLOYEES**: **Equity, Diversity and Inclusion**: The City is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to creating a workplace culture of inclusiveness that reflects the diverse residents that we serve. Learn more about the City’s commitment to employment equity. **Accommodation**: