Laundry Custodial Worker

Summary:

Responsible for cleaning the laundry staff break areas, restrooms, and plant production areas.

Essential Responsibilities:

Clean and service employee restrooms

Clean employee breakroom and staff offices

Empty all trash cans and containers in all restrooms, breakrooms, offices, and throughout the plant on the production floor.

Sweep, dust, vacuum, and blow down the production area over, under, and around production

Equipment.

Blow down and assist in significant plant clean-up, generally once a month on Sundays or after production hours as required.

Other duties as assigned.

Education, Experience, and Requirements:

High School or equivalent is preferred but not necessary.

Must pass a background check. Must pass a drug test. Prior felony convictions will not exclude you from employment, only job-related ones.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Constantly required to stand for an entire shift, walk for extended periods, and use hands and arms to grasp, handle, or feel Constantly able to reach above shoulders outward and downward and to push and pull Constantly able to climb, have good balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.

Constantly speak and hear.

Must have close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Constantly able to lift and carry over 25 pounds

Constantly able to wear a protective gown, gloves, surgical mask, and eye protection when performing the task at times, if required

Must be able to handle and view blood, body fluids, and fecal matter contained in soiled linen, occasionally

Constantly able to pull and or push laundry carts on wheels weighing up to 500 pounds when full of soiled linen

Constantly have arm and shoulder strength and range of motion to be able to pull and separate blankets, patient gowns, towels, and other thoroughly dried linen items if tangled from a weighted pile repeatedly for the duration of the shift

Able to withstand shifts in temperature from 40° to 110°Able to perform repetitive tasks the entire shift

Able to work in a competitive market

Able to work with others in a safe and appropriate manner

Regular and timely attendance

Work Environment:
The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. Noise levels are usually moderate.

Competencies:

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

Oral Communication – Listens and gets clarification to verbal instructions.

Diversity – Shows respect and sensitivity for cultural differences.

Ethics
- Treats people with respect; inspires the trust of others;
Works with integrity and ethics:
Upholds organizational values.

Quality
- Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness;
Looks for ways to improve and promote quality;
Applies feedback to improve performance;
Monitors own work to ensure quality.

Quantity – Completes work promptly and works efficiently.

Safety and Security—Observe safety and security procedures, report potentially unsafe conditions, and use equipment and materials properly.

Adaptability – Adapts to change in the work environment.

Attendance/Punctuality – Is consistent and on time end ability – Follows instructions and responds to supervisor’s direction.

Initiative
- Volunteers readily Ask for and offer help when needed.