Laundry Worker
Veterans Health Administration
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Laundry Technician
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Department of Agriculture
Location
Manhattan, Kansas
Salary
$22.51 - $26.23
per hour
Type
Full-Time
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Base salary range: $147,649 - $221,900
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Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This job involves handling laundry services for a high-security government lab that studies animal and plant diseases, including sorting, washing, and distributing protective clothing used in dangerous environments.
You'll manage supplies and use computer systems to track requests, ensuring everything is clean and safe.
It's a good fit for someone with hands-on laundry or cleaning experience who is detail-oriented and comfortable working in a structured, safety-focused setting.
Key Requirements
- Training and experience in laundry operations, including sorting, washing, and folding garments
- Familiarity with using personal protective equipment (PPE) in a lab or hazardous environment
- Ability to inspect items for damaging substances and handle chemicals safely
- Proficiency with computer systems or databases for receiving and tracking work orders
- Experience maintaining inventory of laundry supplies like soaps and chemicals
- Attention to detail for sorting by type and individual, following biosafety protocols
Full Job Description
As a Laundry Technician you will perform duties and tasks related to laundry services at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF).
To qualify, you must show you have had training and experience of sufficient scope and quality to provide you with the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position.
Your answers to the vacancy specific questions must be supported by the work experience in your resume.
For example, if you respond in the affirmative when questioned whether you have experience using personal protective equipment your resume must include this experience, mindful that experience may not be inferred by job title.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).
Volunteer work helps build critical competencies and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Major Duties:
- The duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Receives e-mail or work order request through an automated database/computer system for laundry service of biosafety level (BSL)-3 and BSL-4 laboratory clothing.
- Sorts soiled laundry by kind of clothing in order to determine the type of laundry treatment to be given each group.
- Inspects laundry for presence of compounds and mixtures that will damage washing machines.
- Sorts laundered clothing by individual person, folds garments and places in cart for distribution.
- Maintains stores of soaps, chemicals, starches, and other laundry supplies.
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