Part-Time Digital Print & Legal Document Production Operator
Location: Vancouver, BC
Schedule: Monday to Friday, approximately 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Hours: Approximately 20–25 hours per week
Compensation: $24.00–$28.00 per hour, depending on experience
CETTEC Printing is looking for a Part-Time Digital Print & Legal Document Production Operator to help produce legal, commercial, scanning, and document reproduction work in a deadline-focused print environment.
This is a hands-on production role, not a graphic design or general office administration position. The ideal candidate has experience in a print shop, copy centre, scanning bureau, legal services office, reprographics department, mailroom, or document production environment.
This position is well suited to someone with practical experience in digital printing, document scanning, PDF handling, bindery, and detailed job-ticket work. Legal printing experience is a strong asset, particularly with materials such as Books of Authorities, Factums, Appeal Records, Chambers Records, Affidavits, Exhibit Books, Application Records, and Trial Briefs.
The successful candidate does not need to know every legal document type on day one. However, they must be accurate, organized, dependable, comfortable following detailed instructions, and able to work calmly under deadlines.
Responsibilities
- Operate digital production printers and copiers for black-and-white and colour document work
- Prepare, print, copy, scan, collate, and finish legal and commercial documents
- Produce legal document sets such as Books of Authorities, Factums, Appeal Records, Chambers Records, Affidavits, Exhibit Books, Application Records, and Trial Briefs
- Use Adobe Acrobat to review and prepare PDF files for production
- Check page size, orientation, page order, pagination, bookmarks, tabs, file names, and print settings
- Combine, split, rotate, organize, and prepare PDF files as required
- Perform loose-page and bound-document scanning
- Create and organize PDF files from scanned documents
- Complete OCR processing where required
- Check scanned files for missing pages, blank pages, skewed pages, image quality, legibility, and correct page order
- Follow detailed job tickets, client instructions, production notes, and deadlines
- Complete bindery and finishing work, including coil or spiral binding, Cerlox/GBC binding, drilling, stapling, cutting, folding, padding, and booklet finishing
- Assemble tabs, covers, slip sheets, volumes, binders, and copy sets accurately
- Review completed work for print quality, pagination, finishing, completeness, packaging, and delivery instructions
- Prepare completed work for pickup, courier, shipment, or delivery
- Maintain a clean, safe, and organized production area
- Support rush and deadline-sensitive legal production work as required
Required Experience and Skills
- Previous experience in a print shop, copy centre, legal services office, scanning bureau, mailroom, reprographics department, or document production environment
- Strong attention to detail and document accuracy
- Comfortable working with PDF files
- Experience with document scanning and basic electronic file organization
- Ability to follow written instructions, job tickets, and production notes accurately
- Comfortable performing repetitive production work while maintaining consistent quality
- Able to prioritize work and remain calm when deadlines change
- Able to stand for portions of the shift and lift boxes of paper and completed documents
- Reliable, punctual, and able to work independently once trained
- Comfortable handling confidential legal and client documents
- Available to work onsite in Vancouver during the scheduled hours
Strong Assets
- Digital printing, copy centre, or commercial print shop experience
- Adobe Acrobat experience, including combining, splitting, rotating, bookmarking, pagination, page order, tabs, file naming, and print settings
- High-volume document scanning, OCR, file naming, and scanning quality control
- Bindery and finishing experience, including coil, Cerlox/GBC, velo binding, drilling, stapling, cutting, tabs, covers, and slip sheets
- Legal document production experience
- Experience producing Books of Authorities, Factums, Appeal Records, Chambers Records, Affidavits, Exhibit Books, Application Records, or Trial Briefs
- Experience with production equipment such as Konica Minolta, Xerox, Ricoh, Canon, Fiery Command WorkStation, production scanners, cutters, or binding equipment
- Experience working with confidential, deadline-sensitive documents
Trainable candidates may be considered where they have strong document-production accuracy, practical PDF or scanning experience, and demonstrated comfort following detailed instructions.
You May Be a Good Fit If You
- Notice small errors before they become production problems
- Follow instructions carefully and ask questions when something is unclear
- Understand that legal printing must be complete, accurate, confidential, and deadline-driven
- Are comfortable working with paper, PDFs, scanners, printers, and bindery equipment
- Stay organized when several jobs are active at the same time
- Remain calm and accurate when work is urgent
- Take pride in producing clean, organized, professional work
- Are looking for a stable, part-time, onsite production role
Compensation
The wage range for this position is $24.00–$28.00 per hour, depending on relevant experience.
The higher end of the range is intended for candidates who can work independently with minimal training and have strong experience in digital print production, Adobe Acrobat, scanning, bindery, and legal document production.
Security and Confidentiality
This position involves confidential legal documents, court materials, client records, and scanned files.
The successful candidate must be comfortable following strict confidentiality, privacy, and document-security procedures. Satisfactory completion of a relevant security or background clearance check will be required as a condition of employment.
Application Instructions
Please answer the screening questions using specific examples from your previous work.
Applicants with practical experience in print shops, copy centres, legal document production, Adobe Acrobat, scanning, OCR, bindery, or deadline-sensitive production environments will be prioritized.
Pay: $24.00-$28.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Flexible schedule
Application question(s):
- Describe your experience with digital print, copy centre, legal document production, or document reproduction work.
Please include the types of documents you produced, the equipment or software you used, and your responsibilities.
- Describe your experience using Adobe Acrobat or PDF software.
Include specific tasks such as combining PDFs, bookmarks, page numbering, OCR, rotating pages, page order, print preparation, or other PDF-related work.
- Describe your document scanning experience.
Include the types of scanners used (if known), OCR, file naming, organizing PDFs, and how you checked for missing, blank, skewed, or out-of-order pages.
- Describe any bindery or finishing experience you have.
Include coil, Cerlox/GBC, velo, stapling, cutting, folding, drilling, booklet making, tabs, covers, padding, or other finishing work.
- Describe any experience preparing legal or court documents.
Examples include Books of Authorities, Factums, Appeal Records, Chambers Records, Affidavits, Exhibit Books, Trial Briefs, Application Records, or other legal document sets. If you do not have legal document experience, please describe another role where accuracy, confidentiality, and deadline-sensitive document production were critical.
Work Location: In person
