Laundry Manager

About the role

Positions in this job family perform tasks involving laundry work, sewing, alterations, and mending at a state institution, school or facility. This includes sorting, washing and maintaining clothing, linens, and draperies.

Responsibilities

• Operates washers, dryers, mangles, pressers and irons.
• Sews by hand or machine, mends, alters and repairs clothing and linen articles; constructs, maintains and hangs draperies.
• Plays clothes on hangers, wraps bundles in paper with identifying tickets, and prepares for delivery.
• Performs minor machine maintenance and repair; cleans and oils machines; and maintains cleanliness of work area.
• Maintains adequate level of sewing materials, clothing and linens for an assigned area; collects, weighs and counts laundry.
• Performs other related duties as assigned consistent with the responsibilities of the position and agency operations.

Requirements

• Four years of experience in a commercial or institutional laundry, or commercial experience in the operation of a sewing machine, pattern making, or mending garments including one year of qualifying experience in a supervisory capacity or for positions assigned to the Department of Corrections or the Office of Juvenile Affairs.
• One year of direct and routine contact with juvenile or adult offenders may be substituted for each year of the required experience with a maximum substitution of two years and six months.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of sewing techniques; of simple pattern making and of textiles and their reaction to soaps, bleaches, bluing, alkalines, water temperature and detergents; of occupational hazards and safety precautions relating to laundry and sewing operations; of basic mathematics; of supervisory principles and practices; and of administrative principles and practices.
• Ability to operate a sewing machine; to fit and alter clothing; to operate various laundry equipment; to follow written and oral instructions and to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others; to follow sewing patterns; to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing; and to provide direction to other linen and clothing specialists; to supervise and monitor the work of others, including inmates; to plan and schedule production; and to prepare written reports.

Skills

Candidates must possess sufficient proficiency in the English language to perform the essential functions of the position.

Benefits

N/A

Pay

$18.58 per hour

Schedule

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