What are the responsibilities and job description for the Laundry Production Worker position at The University of Iowa and Careers?
The University of Iowa is seeking a Laundry Production Worker to operate flatwork iron pressing machine, air finishers and shirt finishers to finish and/or fold cloth materials such as sheets, pillowcases, aprons, operating room linens, towels, shirts, etc. The University of Iowa offers a generous benefits package, which may be viewed at: https://hr.uiowa.edu/benefits.
Duties to include:
- Feed linen items into production machines.
- Stage linen items by placing in carts, recording linen counts, and packaging linen items.
- Transport textiles to dock area.
- Sort various linen by items.
- Feed linen into folding equipment.
- Fold different textiles.
- Attend and participate in staff meetings.
- Deliver clean, dry linen to applicable production locations.
- Pick up work area.
- Clean equipment.
- Sweep, dust, wash work area.
- Count incoming and outgoing linen.
- Move objects more than 20 pounds.
Schedule Monday through Friday, 6:00 AM to 2:30 PM
Department UI Laundry Services
Location Oakdale Campus, Coralville
Minimum Eligibility Requirements:
- Ability to understand and follow instructions.
Desirable Qualifications:
- Previous commercialized laundry experience.
- Ability to work effectively with individuals from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives.
- Experience operating large laundry equipment.
- Basic computer knowledge.
Position and Application Details:
Job openings are posted for a minimum of 10 calendar days and may be removed from posting and filled any time after the original posting period has ended.
Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any conviction history and will be subject to a criminal background check. Up to 3 professional references will be requested at a later step in the recruitment process.
For additional questions, please contact Brooke McMurl at (319) 467-0719 or brooke-mcmurl@uiowa.edu
This position is performed fully on campus.
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