Laundry Custodial Worker (3048)

## Description
**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.

## Qualifications
**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 at work.
• **Dependability** – Follows instructions and responds to supervisor’s direction.
• **Initiative** - Volunteers readily Ask for and offer help when needed.