INTERMEDIATE LAUNDRY WORKER

About the role

The Intermediate Laundry Worker performs the more difficult work in an institutional or hospital laundry or linen service and acts as a lead person of a small team of workers. They operate and act as lead worker in the operation of flatwork ironers, keep records of time worked by staff, load linen carts, deliver clean linen, receive orders and complaints, check clean linen, assist in linen inventory, and issue and receive personal laundry.

Responsibilities

• Operates and acts as lead worker in the operation of flatwork ironers, keeping records of time worked by staff.
• Provides relief for the supervisor a substantial portion of the time.
• Loads linen carts in accordance with established linen supply requirements and delivers clean linen from laundry processing areas or linen rooms to hospital wards, clinics, and institutional live-in units, keeping records of deliveries.
• Receives orders and complaints from personnel of other hospital units and takes action to see that orders are made up and complaints are resolved.
• Checks clean linen received from laundry vendor services for items needing rewashing and records weight of items received.
• Affords assistance in unloading clean linen from delivery trucks, transporting linen in carts to the linen room, unloading linen carts and storing linen on storage shelves.
• Issues and receives personal laundry to and from hospital employees.
• Issues hospital uniforms and maintains records of uniforms issued.
• Affords assistance in counting linen during inventory.
• Marks uniforms using hot stamp machines as needed.

Requirements

• Six (6) months of experience in laundry work in an institutional* or commercial** laundry.
• Institutional laundry facilities are defined as but not limited to hospitals, juvenile detention centers, jails, prisons or residential care facilities.
• Commercial laundry facilities are defined as but not limited to hotels or industrial laundry facilities.

Physical Class

• Physical Class 3 - Moderate
• Requires standing or walking most of the time with bending, stooping, squatting, twisting, reaching, working on irregular surfaces, occasional lifting of objects weighing over 25 pounds, and frequent lifting of 10-25 pounds.

Desirable Qualifications

• Additional experience in excess of the Requirements.

Benefits

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