Laundry Worker

Full Job Description

The Laundry Worker provides essential services to the Naval Academy's Brigade of Midshipmen and all other individuals, organizations, and activities that use the NABSD Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Facility.

Each worker will be assigned an assortment of tasks (hands on) that are required to process laundry throughout the facility.

Incumbent must have at least three months experience sorting, counting, and folding clothing. Experience working in a professional laundry facility preferred.

Incumbent must have experience operating pressing equipment, or have the ability to learn how to operate pressing equipment.

Incumbent must be able to stand up to three hours at a time, bend and lift up to 50 lbs. Major Duties:

Incumbent will be required to perform one or all of the following tasks as assigned by the Laundry Worker Supervisor.

Match incoming laundry to laundry tickets, count and sort items and distribute for cleaning based on soil/garment classification.

Assign tags to items to maintain lot integrity as items travel through the facility. Bag and turn in to the department supervisor all valuables recovered during check-in process.

Shake out and sort clean flatwork (bed and table linens) into bins by color and type to facilitate feeding into flatwork ironer equipment.

Work individually or in teams, depending on piece size, feed flatwork into the flatwork ironer and/or receive pressed, folded and stacked items from the cross-folder equipment.

The Laundry Worker may be required to bundle and wrap items, then place in carts for distributing.

Separate towels, blankets, spreads, and other rough-dried items (fully dried hand fold work) by type and fold in accordance with standard procedures.

Separate nets, laundry, bags and loosely processed uniform items into lots, fold, cart-up or stack as necessary.

Operate towel folding machine by feeding towels into folder and stacking completed towels into laundry transport carts. Keep all work together by lot and customer.

Forward completed work to next appropriate work station. Separate goods according to lot and type. Distribute to appropriate equipment for processing.

Press or tunnel finished work as assigned, performing any or a combination of the following tasks, operate collar and cuff press, yoke press, bosom and body press, double buck shirt press, sleeve press, laundry press, or steam finishing tunnel.

Hang up finished work, maintaining lot integrity and check appearance for obvious defects, laying such items aside for reprocessing as necessary.

In the locker area, remove laundry nets from carts by lots and match to tickets in assembly lockers. Place all work in locker in appropriate laundry bag, matching all items to ticket for sign off.

Tie completed bag and place on conveyor to be staged in a cart for delivery. Hanger Assembly Work: Hang tickets on hooks by lot. Retrieve and assemble all items identified on ticket.

When all pieces are accounted for, place in hanging bag and tie hangers together. Place on mobile racks for forgotten items, and staple laundry tags to items for identification after cleaning.

Collect uniforms from customers for cleaning. Prepare tickets. Verify item count and type to tickets corresponding to the customer orders.

Check pockets for forgotten items, staple laundry tags to items for identification after cleaning. Enter ticket information on the spreadsheet for tracking and recording purposes.

Organize clean orders on a conveyor for issue. Issue linen exchange items, prepackaged linens for guests and medical isolation purposes. May be subject to continuous standing on concrete floors.

Most tasks require quick hand and arm movements. Pushing or pulling of carts weighing up to 1000 pounds may be required.

May be required to lift bundles weighing up to 50 pounds on a daily bases and periodically lift bundles weighing up to 100 pounds with assistance.

The laundry facility may be subject to heat, humidity, dust, lint, and noise.