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Employer:	Younis Art Studio, Inc.
DBA:	Marianas Variety News & Views
Address:	P.O. 500231 Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands 96950 United States
Phone:	670-234-9272
Other Number:	670-234-9271
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Job Vacancy Announcement	JVA
JVA Type:	Renewal
Island	Saipan
FLSA Covered?	No, not covered
DOD related?	No
PERM related? *	No
VEVRAA related?	No
Original Number of Openings:	2
Number of Openings Currently Available	2
Specific Worksite location:	Alaihai Avenue, Garapan, Saipan
Job Classification:	Production Occupations
Job Title:	Machine Operator
Announcement Number:	20-06-85237
Job Classification:	Production Occupations
Opening Date:	6/26/2020
Closing Date:	7/17/2020
Salary Range:	$9.85 to $9.95 / Hourly
Job Title:	Machine Operator
Job Duties:	• Examine stitched, collated, bound, or unbound product samples for defects, such as imperfect bindings, ink spots, torn pages, loose pages, or loose or uncut threads. • Read work orders to determine instructions and specifications for machine set-up. • Install or adjust bindery machine devices, such as knives, guides, rollers, rounding forms, creasing rams, or clamps, to accommodate sheets, signatures, or books of specified sizes. • Trim edges of books to size, using cutting machines, book trimming machines, or hand cutters. • Stitch or glue endpapers, bindings, backings, or signatures, using sewing machines, glue machines, or glue and brushes. • Monitor machine operations to detect malfunctions or to determine whether adjustments are needed. • Maintain records, such as daily production records, using specified forms. • Lubricate, clean, or make minor repairs to machine parts to keep machines in working condition. • Set up or operate bindery machines, such as coil binders, thermal or tape binders, plastic comb binders, or specialty binders. • Set up or operate machines that perform binding operations, such as pressing, folding, or trimming. • Prepare finished materials by wrapping or packing and stacking boxes for delivery. • Set up or operate glue machines by filling glue reservoirs, turning switches to activate heating elements, or adjusting glue flow or conveyor speed. • Insert book bodies in devices that form back edges of books into convex shapes and produce grooves that facilitate cover attachment. • Cut cover material to specified dimensions, fitting and gluing material to binder boards by hand or machine. • Cut binder boards to specified dimensions, using board shears, hand cutters, or cutting machines. • Bind new books, using hand tools such as bone folders, knives, hammers, or brass binding tools. • Perform highly skilled hand finishing binding operations, such as grooving or lettering. • Imprint or emboss lettering, designs, or numbers on book covers, using gold, silver, or colored foil, and stamping machines. • Compress sewed or glued signatures, using hand presses or smashing machines. • Form book bodies by folding and sewing printed sheets to form signatures and assembling signatures in numerical order. • Design original or special bindings for limited editions or other custom binding projects. • Punch holes in and fasten paper sheets, signatures, or other material, using hand or machine punches and staplers. • Repair, restore, or rebind old, rare, or damaged books, using hand tools. • Apply color to edges of signatures using brushes, pads, or atomizers.
High School Diploma Required?	Yes
Qualification Requirements:	High school diploma; 12 months or more of work experience in the same job category; must be able to operate various kinds of bindery machine (i.e., pad & folder wire stitching machine, puncher machine, embossing machine, folding & collating machine, letterpress machine); perform routine maintenance; attention to details; able to handle deadline pressure; understand materials, supplies and equipment needed to perform the job orders; produce quality output.
Full or Part Time:	Full Time
Hours per Week:	35
Hours per Day:	7
Payment Frequency:	Bi-weekly
Overtime Available:	Yes
Overtime Rate:	$14.77 - $14.92
Rate x 1.5 per hour Exempted:	Yes
Specify All Payroll Deductions:	Fica Tax, CNMI State Tax, Cash Advance, if any.
Required tools, supplies and Equipment to be provided:	Press equipment and machines, all provided; all supplies & materials necessary for the projects, provided.
Anticipated starting date of employment:	10/1/2020
Anticipated closing date of employment:	9/30/2021
Housing Provided:	No
Food Provided:	No
Transportation required:	No
If transportation is required, daily transportation to and from the worksite(s) will be provided to the workers. Daily pick-up place(s) will be at:
Fringe Benefits:	Workmen compensation provided. 48 hrs accrued Vacation Leave; 48 hrs accrued Sick Leave; 6 days paid Holidays.
Comments:	This job opportunity is a temporary, full-time position. Three-Fourths Guarantee. Worker will be offered employment for a total number of work hours equal to at least three fourths of the workdays of the total period that begins with the first workday after the arrival of the worker at the place of employment or the advertised contractual first date of need, whichever is later, and ends on the expiration date specified in the work contract or in its extensions, if any. Inbound/Outbound Transportation and Subsistence. The employer will provide transportation and subsistence to the worker while travelling from employee’s origin to the place of employment, as well as provide or pay for worker’s reasonable costs of return transportation and subsistence back home or to the place the worker originally departed to work, except where the worker will not return due to subsequent employment with another employer or where the employer has appropriately reported a worker’s voluntary abandonment of employment. Interested applicants may apply in person at Younis Art Studio, Inc., office located along Alaihai Avenue, Garapan, Saipan. Open Monday to Thursday, from 8:00am to 5:00pm; and/or may send application via email to: liza.cruz@mvariety.com.