Job Summary

A growing commercial printing and direct mail operation in San Diego is seeking an experienced Digital Print Operator for a full-time, direct hire opportunity. This hands-on production role is ideal for a print professional with strong digital press experience, a quality-focused mindset, and exposure to Variable Data Printing, personalized print, or direct mail workflows.

This opportunity offers stability with an established print organization, varied commercial print projects, and the chance to work closely with production, prepress, mailing, bindery, and customer-facing teams. The environment is fast-paced, team-oriented, and built around accuracy, dependable execution, and meeting customer deadlines.

The right candidate will enjoy operating digital production equipment, reviewing job specifications, supporting personalized print campaigns, and ensuring each project is completed accurately, efficiently, and to high quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

- Set up, operate, and monitor digital production presses for commercial print and direct mail jobs.
- Prepare print jobs by reviewing job tickets, print-ready files, PDFs, paper stock, quantities, finishing requirements, and production specifications.
- Support Variable Data Printing projects by helping merge customer data with templates for personalized postcards, letters, envelopes, mailers, and marketing materials.
- Inspect printed output for color, registration, image quality, personalization accuracy, data integrity, and overall production quality.
- Troubleshoot basic press, file, RIP, workflow, and production issues to keep jobs moving efficiently.
- Coordinate with prepress, mailing, bindery, finishing, account management, and production teams to meet deadlines and maintain accurate job documentation.

Compensation and Benefits

- Pay: $25 to $27 per hour.
- Schedule: Full-time.
- Job type: Direct hire.
- Location: San Diego, CA.
- Benefits were not specified.

Required Qualifications and Skills

- Manage commercial print and direct mail projects from customer request through production, mailing, and delivery.
- Coordinate estimating, order entry, proofing, VDP, production scheduling, finishing, and mailing requirements.
- Work directly with customers and internal production teams to resolve job specifications, data, artwork, proofing, and deadline issues.
- Use print management and production workflow tools to support estimating, scheduling, job tracking, and accurate project documentation.

- 6 to 10 years of experience in commercial printing, digital print production, direct mail, print production coordination, print account management, or a related production environment.
- Strong understanding of print production workflows, including prepress, PDFs, proofing, color, paper, substrates, bindery, finishing, and mailing processes.
- Experience with Variable Data Printing, personalized print campaigns, data merging, Excel/CSV files, customer databases, and mailing lists.
- Ability to read and interpret print specifications, production requirements, work orders, and customer instructions.
- Strong customer service, communication, organization, and project management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple customer projects, deadlines, approvals, and production details at the same time.
- Strong attention to detail, problem-solving ability, and comfort working in a fast-paced print production environment.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with FusionPro or comparable VDP software.
- Experience with Printer's Plan or similar print management software for estimating, scheduling, job tracking, costing, or invoicing.
- Familiarity with USPS mailing requirements, CASS, NCOA/Move Update, postal presorting, address validation, and postal barcoding.
- Experience with Adobe Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, or related prepress and design tools.
- Knowledge of digital production presses, inkjet or toner production, cutters, folders, booklet makers, inserters, and other production equipment.
- Background as a Print Account Manager, Print Production Coordinator, Print Customer Service Representative, Direct Mail Specialist, Digital Print Specialist, VDP Specialist, Print Project Manager, or Prepress/Production Coordinator.

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