Production Operator

People selected for a Production Operator position may be placed in various roles within the production process of our Crown Health Care Laundry plant. There may be needs in either or both production areas – Soil or Clean. Assignments are determined based on hiring needs and production levels in each area. Pay rates and scheduled work hours are based on area assigned.

The primary purpose of the Production Operator is to rotate through various positions within the plant to facilitate the receiving, sorting, washing, drying, ironing and loading of linens to be delivered to various hospitals and medical facilities. You will learn to operate various production equipment as needed for your daily assignments to meet and exceed customer expectations safely.

Employees are required to learn all equipment and rotate as needed. Typical learning curve for each position is no longer than 2‑5 working days. Standards must be met for each position within two weeks of hire and sustained during employment.

All Production Operation employees, whether working in Soil or Clean Production areas, will be required to perform other duties as assigned. All employees will adhere to all quality standards and obey all safety standards. All Production Operation employees hired must be able to perform the essential functions of the job, with or without an accommodation.

High School Education or GED preferred.

Excellent Teamwork Skills Required.

Employees must be willing to move between all jobs via rotation when needed.

The primary purpose of this position is to safely sort returned, soiled linen into appropriate classifications in preparation for washing, washing and preparing the carts for the Clean Production side of the plant.

• Open customer returned soil bags (bags weigh approximately 45 lbs.), discard plastic bag, spread product out to allow for visibility on soil belt. Pre‑sort classifications as required according to production standards of 45 bags or 2,000 lbs opened per hour for each operator.
• Operators float between multiple positions on the work platform, moving up and down the belt to sort into the appropriate bins or slots. This is a team operation where the group works together to ensure linens are sorted safely, quickly and accurately into appropriate bins on the line.
• Move empty carts to the appropriate area for cleaning and reuse.
• Cart Cleaners are responsible for ensuring that the carts used for returned bagged soiled laundry are cleaned, sterilized, dried out and lined to be ready for clean linens to be built into each cart from the Clean lines, readying the carts for loading onto our trucks. Our Crown trucks leave loaded each day to deliver clean sterile linens to our customers.

• Secure linen carts and learn to stack and build carts proficiently per our standards in a manner conducive to our customer standards.
• Remove linens from the Folder machine, count and stack them per stacking standards, and push the full baskets to the next staging area.
• Secure a linen cart; push, pull and put the cart into place as needed.
• Remove items from the conveyor, normally catching items from up to six stations.
• If an item is caught or hung up in the machine, contact maintenance. Only maintenance or production managers can pull jams.
• May take empty carts over to the dryer area, bring another cart, and return it to their work area.
• Adhere to quality standards for quantity and quality of stacking.
• If the Catcher sees items in the pile that are not Crown Health Care Laundry Services linens, such as a scrub or blanket, pull them out and place them to the side. Remove stained or damaged items that the feeder did not notice.
• Make quality decisions such as determining whether a linen is ready to load in a cart.
• When an item is stuck or the machine is not functioning properly, decide when to call Maintenance.

• Remove product from the previous process. Identify, through on‑the‑job training, how many items per stack.
• Pull the cart over to the work area and adjust it so that the linen is at a…