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The City of Boise is hiring a Print & Mail Supervisor. This is a great fit for someone with experience in production and workflow-driven environments, who has strong relationship-building and communication skills, and who is customer-service focused.
Job Responsibility
Provides leadership and support to staff delivering centralized printing, bindery, mailing, shipping, and receiving services for the City of Boise and partner agencies
Establishes productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders through effective communication and collaboration
Oversees daily operations, ensuring efficient and reliable service while maintaining a strong focus on customer service
Works with considerable independence, exercising sound judgment and initiative under limited supervision
Performs the full range of duties including hiring, evaluating, promoting, and assigning duties
correcting inappropriate actions or behavior through communication and coaching, initiating discipline or termination as needed
and overseeing employees or a group
Performs the tasks of subordinate employees, as needed
Provides initial customer service contact, clerical and administrative support to print and mail functions
Supervises the city's print and mail services division for all city departments and outside agencies
Conducts cost and work projections
Assists in communicating vision, goals, standards, policies and procedures
Utilizes industry-specific software, prepares printing estimates and adheres to customer timelines
Assesses binding jobs and outsource options to determine the appropriate vendor, cost and needs of the customers
Requests price quotations from outside vendors and manages all outsourced print and bindery services
Manages the customer-facing print software experience
Requests art creation or updating through community engagement design services
Sends art out for approval in preparation to print
Reviews incoming jobs for accuracy and clarity, updates as needed and prints orders and delegates them to the appropriate employee for completion
Works with vendors and administers and monitors contracts for materials and services
Conducts yearly inventories, monitors all in-house inventory levels and contracts with all supply vendors
Purchases needed materials
Prepares monthly accounting for all internal and external print and mail
Monitors the status of all United States Postal Service (USPS) mail services, generates reports, manages all USPS accounts and keeps track of current postal rates
Instructs departments in the most cost-effective methods for sending their mail
Manages citywide shipping and receiving
Assists in production and acts as backup for all positions
Trains in all aspects of print and mail operations
Drives a motor vehicle to deliver mail and print orders to multiple locations
Requirements
High school diploma or equivalent and 3 years of experience in a supervisory or lead role, including experience working in a small to medium-sized print, copy and mail facility, or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience. Knowledge of: operations, administration, and supervisory principles
budgeting, purchasing, and inventory management
production planning
postal regulations and requirements
safety requirements common to the printing and mailing industries
printing and bindery operations and equipment and print management software
and computer usage including related software. Ability to: interpret and administer City of Boise policies
monitor tasks and leads operational activities of staff
direct a technically oriented agency
communicate effectively in the English language at a level necessary for efficient job performance
and perform all essential functions as assigned by an authorized employee, supervisor, and/or manager with or without a reasonable accommodation. Valid state-issued driver's license.
Nice to have
5 years of experience supervising a small to medium-sized print, copy, and mail facility
1 year of experience with print management software
1 year of experience using all United States Postal Service (USPS) mail classes with extensive knowledge of postal regulations and requirements
Certified Graphic Communications Manager (CGCM) designation through the In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association (IPMA) and participation in the USPS Postal Customer Council (PCC)
What we offer
Zero-cost premium medical coverage for you and your family
PERSI retirement plus employer-matched 401(k)/457b
10 hours vacation/month (grows with tenure), 12 paid holidays, and 8 hours sick leave/month
10 weeks paid parental leave
$500 annual wellbeing incentive
Tuition reimbursement and free local bus pass
Basic life and long-term disability insurance at no cost