Laundry Custodial Worker (2785)

Summary: Responsible for cleaning the laundry staff break areas, restrooms, and plant production areas.

 Essential Responsibilities: 

• Clean and service employee restrooms
• Clean employee breakroom and staff offices
• Empty all trash cans and containers in all restrooms, breakrooms, offices, and throughout the plant on the production floor.
• Sweep, dust, vacuum, and blow down the production area over, under, and around production 
• Equipment.  
• Blow down and assist in significant plant clean-up, generally once a month on Sundays or after production hours as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education, Experience, and Requirements:

• High School or equivalent is preferred but not necessary.
• Must pass a background check.  Must pass a drug test. Prior felony convictions will not exclude you from employment, only job-related ones.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Constantly required to stand for an entire shift, walk for extended periods, and use hands and arms to grasp, handle, or feel
• Constantly able to reach above shoulders outward and downward and to push and pull
• Constantly able to climb, have good balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.
• Constantly speak and hear. 
• Must have close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.    
• Constantly able to lift and carry over 25 pounds
• Constantly able to wear a protective gown, gloves, surgical mask, and eye protection when performing the task at times, if required
• Must be able to handle and view blood, body fluids, and fecal matter contained in soiled linen, occasionally
• Constantly able to pull and or push laundry carts on wheels weighing up to 500 pounds when full of soiled linen
• Constantly have arm and shoulder strength and range of motion to be able to pull and separate blankets, patient gowns, towels, and other thoroughly dried linen items if tangled from a weighted pile repeatedly for the duration of the shift
• Able to withstand shifts in temperature from 40° to 110°
• Able to perform repetitive tasks the entire shift
• Able to work in a competitive market
• Able to work with others in a safe and appropriate manner
• Regular and timely attendance

Work Environment: The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. Noise levels are usually moderate.

Competencies: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

Oral Communication – Listens and gets clarification to verbal instructions.

Diversity – Shows respect and sensitivity for cultural differences.

Ethics - Treats people with respect; inspires the trust of others; Works with integrity and ethics: Upholds organizational values.

Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Applies feedback to improve performance; Monitors own work to ensure quality.

Quantity – Completes work promptly and works efficiently.

Safety and Security—Observe safety and security procedures, report potentially unsafe conditions, and use equipment and materials properly.

Adaptability – Adapts to change in the work environment.                              

Attendance/Punctuality – Is consistent and on time at work.

Dependability – Follows instructions and responds to supervisor’s direction.

Initiative - Volunteers readily Ask for and offer help when needed.

Salary : $15