Laundry Technician III

About the role

Would you thrive in an environment where you learn and grow personally and professionally all while helping make a positive impact on people’s lives? Do you appreciate being around others like yourself who are dependable, trustworthy, hard workers who believe in the value of teamwork? HSCS is dedicated to building an atmosphere where employees feel valued and supported while providing specialized care for Texans in need. HSCS is comprised of ten psychiatric hospitals, two youth residential treatment facilities, and thirteen state supported living centers. Psychiatric hospitals are a hub of excellence for forensic mental health and complex psychiatric care, with all facilities accredited by The Joint Commission. They provide state-of-the-art treatment that is recovery-oriented and science-based. If providing hope and healing through compassionate, innovative, and individualized care interests you, we welcome your application for the position below.

Responsibilities

• Attends work on a regular basis and may be asked to work a specific shift schedule, rotating schedule, extended shift, or overtime in accordance with agency leave policy.
• Assists the Laundry Manager in overseeing the laundry process in the soil sort and clean processing areas.
• Assists the Laundry Manager with leading, guiding, and directing other Laundry Workers to work as a team to meet established time frames, following all Laundry Department procedures.
• Maintains open and continuous communication, reporting all problems and recommendations without delay.
• Maintains open and continuous communication with the Laundry Manager, Laundry Maintenance, and Laundry Director to ensure timely handling of issues.
• Reports, oversees, and ensures proper startup of the Continuous Batch Washer (CBW), press, shuttle, four 300# dryers, un-loader belt, and 300# lint collector at the beginning of the workday.
• Oversees and ensures proper shut down at end of workday.
• Ensures Personnel Protective Equipment (PPE) and safety equipment are used, available, and adequate supplies are maintained.
• Ensures work areas and floors are cleaned daily at the end of shift.
• Cleans equipment per preventative maintenance work orders.
• Ensures trash is collected and properly discarded.
• Ensures hazards are reported and appropriate actions taken to prevent an unsafe environment.
• Participates in laundry enhancement discussions and training sessions.
• Ensures all docks and lifts are secured at the end of the shift.
• Ensures all daily documentation has been completed and turned in to the office at the end of each day (e.g., work orders, machine logs, dirty/clean shipping forms).
• Assists the Laundry Manager with training, cross training, and assigning the work of other Laundry Workers.
• Informs and updates the Laundry Manager on training deficiencies.
• Ensures rotation of trainees so proficiency is maintained.
• Informs and updates Laundry Manager of other laundry worker personnel issues and achievements that need to be acknowledged.
• Informs and updates the Laundry Manager of scheduling problems and achievements.
• Ensures open communication with the Laundry Director, Laundry Manager, Laundry Maintenance, and other Laundry Workers.
• Sorts, classifies, weighs, and records all soiled laundry to determine the appropriate laundry formula.
• Ensures all carts are labeled with a tag for the Facility/Unit being sorted.
• Ensures sorting and loading are done one facility at a time.
• Ensures sorting conveyor stays full, changes out full sorting carts so sorting can continue without interruption, and helps stage the loads for the CBW while keeping the sort area organized.
• Ensures dirty carts are taken to the cart washer after they have been emptied.
• Sorts all soiled laundry by Facility/Unit, type of material, texture, and item's soil content.
• Records all weights accurately by Facility/Unit on the Dirty Shipping Info form and turns in completed papers to the office daily.
• Removes any article soiled with feces, food, vomit, or medicine and places articles in the heavy soiled bin.
• Operation of the Continuous Batch Washer (CBW) system: ensures proper weights are loaded, selects the proper wash formula and Facility/Unit code according to soil degree, ensures linens are cleaned to required specifications, ensures proper weights, facilities/units, and formulas are programmed for efficient processing, follows all operating procedures for CBW, press, shuttle, dryers, un-loader belt, and lint collector, ensures proper chemicals are maintained and connected, checks chemicals before and during processing, troubleshoots and corrects faults for maximum productivity, maintains CBW efficiency of 84% or higher, and keeps Laundry Manager, Laundry Director, and Laundry Maintenance advised of productivity problems and efficiency situations.
• Operation of the large dryer unload conveyor: ensures a cart is ready before the unload light comes on, unloads the conveyor when the light signals, checks the Multitrac System to see what facility is being processed, makes labels with Facility/Unit name and item description and tapes them to carts, regularly checks processed laundry for dryness, stains, smells, brings questionable linen items