This position serves as a Laundry Machine Operator in the sorting, washing, drying, pressing linens and other articles at the VA Medical Center.

Duties

Major duties and responsibilities include: Constructing and repairing clothing and equipment made of fabrics. Operating commercial type laundry washers, extractors, tumblers, or conditioners. Also loads, unloads, and controls machines. Following set procedures set to control machines. Using standard procedures to set timers by type of load for one or more combinations of laundry machines such as tumblers, extractors, and conditioners. Using standard procedures to set timers per weight of loads; Balancing loads by distributing loads evenly. Operating and controlling machines for sorting, ironing, and folding. Maintaining work area and equipment to sanitary standards. Performing janitorial duties in work area including sweeping, moping, washing windows, washing walls, clean furniture and fixtures, and emptying waste cans. Performing other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm and varying shifts including some weekends and holidays. Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized

Requirements

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: The employee will be required to have strength and stamina for doing heavy physical tasks for long periods of time. This could include pulling wet laundry form washer, pushing heavy carts, and lifting bundles weighing over 50 pounds. Stands and walks continuously on concrete floors. Work is performed inside a laundry facility with higher than normal temperatures, high humidity and prolonged exposure to loud noises. The incumbent is exposed to possible injury from high pressure steam, and fast moving machinery. The employee can be continually exposed to the possibilities of bruises from moving carts or falls on wet floors in the washing area. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume. You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position: Quality AssuranceTechnical CompetenceWork Practices IMPORTANT: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. All experience listed on your resume must include the month and year start/end dates. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Fort Harrison VA Medical Center 3687 Veterans Drive Fort Harrison, MT 59636 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]