Production - Finishing Floor

NOVO Health Services offers linen management solutions to the healthcare industry. NOVO Health keenly focuses on safety and infection control and provides its partner hospitals with a value-driven linen management control system that measures and monitors linen utilization by department to eliminate excess internal costs. NOVO's wide range of service programs offer a variety of options to provide a seamless, single source distribution system.

NOVO's regional healthcare linen facilities are HLAC accredited and operate with state-of-the-art processing equipment and processes. NOVO Health Services is the only “one stop shop” service provider in U.S. currently serving all healthcare-related end markets with both Healthcare Laundry Services as well as Sterilized Reusable Surgical Solutions.

• Sort, inspect, fold and bundle full dried linen.
• Place on conveyors or carts.
• Representative duties within department:
  Machine fold, small pieces such as bath towels, bibs, hand towels, patient gowns, or pillowcases.
• Dump the sling containing work into lift table.
• Sort load into like items, if required, while operating folder.
• Inspect each piece to quality standards.
• Place rejected items in appropriate basket.
• Feed piece into machine entry point.
• May pre-fold item and/or untie strings.
• Lower lift table to floor level.
• Incidental Duties for position:
  Set program number, fold width, counter, or other controls consistent with product.
• Run wax cloth through equipment as required.
• Sort and distribute mis-sorted items to appropriate bins, baskets or tables.
• Turn off equipment; remove jammed items.
• Machine fold, large pieces such as bath blankets, thermal blankets, or member specials.
• Dump the sling containing work into lift table.
• Sort load into like items, if required, while presenting item corners to feeders.
• Feed piece into machine entry point.
• Inspect each piece to quality standards.
• Place rejected items in appropriate basket.
• Adjust output bundles to proper count and appearance.
• Lower lift table to floor level.
• Incidental Duties for position:
  Set program number, fold width, counter, or other controls consistent with product.
• Sort and distribute mis-sorted items to appropriate bins, baskets or tables.
• Hand fold when required during equipment downtime.
• Turn off equipment; remove jammed items.
• May move, open, or close shipping carts.
• May fill cart to meet pick list level.
• May cross fold, count and/or stack product.
• Hand fold, various pieces such as mattress pads, pajama bottoms, gowns, jackets, incontinent pads, etc.; stack washcloths.
• Sort load into like items, if required, completing bundles.
• Inspect each piece to quality standards.
• Place rejected items in appropriate basket.
• Fold and stack each item.
• Count to proper bundle size.
• Place bundles on conveyor.
• Lower lift table to floor level.
• Incidental Duties for position:
  Sort and distribute mis-sorted items to appropriate bins, baskets or tables.
• Hand fold towels and other machine fold pieces when required during equipment downtime.
• Snap IV gowns before folding to identify failed snaps.
• Schedule varies; frequency as directed.
• Patch holes in linen where required by quality standards.
• Mops and Rags.
• Inspects and sorts mops/rags to standard.
• Places mops/rags in plastic bag; close and tie bag.
• May place mops/rags directly into carts.
• When mop/rag count meets pick list and/or order requirement, leave completed work for order makeup.
• Multiple orders may be placed in a single cart in a predetermined pattern.
• Incidental Duties for position:
  Notify lead worker of equipment or linen problems.
• May transport work from dryer area to mop area.
• May place product in or pack from storage bins.
• Incidental duties for Department.
• Move rewash to soil sort.
• Move stain to scale, weigh and…