Production Floater Operator
Job Overview
The Floater in the Production Operations area works as part of a team in an industrial laundry facility. Responsible for the safe, expeditious, and accurate handling of merchandise into and/or out of the laundry facility.
Responsibilities / Essential Functions
May be assigned to any of these production areas:
- Soil – Receives laundry from customer bags, sorts the laundry by the type of item (uniform, linen, mats, and specialty items).
- Washroom – Operates industrial washing machines
- Tunnel – Operates industrial tunnel drying equipment
- Folding – Operates industrial folding equipment, may conduct hand folding.
- May package or hang garments according to customer requirements
- Sort – May utilize scanners to sort, tabulate, and ready garments and products for the customer delivery
- Mender/Sewer – Operates sewing machines to mend garments, repair zippers, replace buttons. May sew emblems onto garments
- Stockroom – Receives new goods, inventory tabulation, readies products for new customers or replacements for current customers
- Visually identifies and segregates merchandise that does not meet specified quality standards. Reports findings to proper person.
- Maintains safe and clean work environment and observes best practices in all production activities.
- Performs other duties as assigned or requested by leadership.
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
- Prompt arrival and regular attendance at work
- Ability to develop and maintain a positive working relationship with others
- Ability to understand all required training, written and verbal instructions
- Basic math skills
Experience / Education
- 6 months' work experience, preferred
- High school diploma or GED
Working Conditions
- Work is performed in a warehouse setting and regularly exposed to outside weather conditions, extreme heat and cold conditions as well as dust, water and noise.
- Work is based on a shift schedule and may include weekends.
- Overtime required as needed.
Physical Requirements
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Position involves repetitive motions over the duration of an entire shift.
- Requires the ability to move, lift, carry, push, or pull items weighing up to 25 lbs.
- Requires bending, reaching, pulling, twisting, kneeling, and lifting.
- Requires the use of hands for grasping and other manipulations.
- Requires standing and walking for long periods of time.
About Vestis®
Headquartered in Roswell, GA, Vestis® is the second largest provider in the industry with over 300,000 customer locations and approximately 20,000 teammates across North America. Vestis® is a leader in the B2B uniform and workplace supplies category. Vestis® provides clean and safe uniform services and workplace supplies to a broad range of North American customers from Fortune 500 companies to locally owned small businesses across a broad set of end markets. The Company's comprehensive service offering includes a full-service uniform rental program, cleanroom and other specialty garment processing, floor mats, towels, linens, managed restroom services, first aid supplies and more.