This position is located in the Laundry Section of Environmental Management Service at the Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The employee will process hospital linens, employee uniforms and patient wearing apparel on a timely basis to meet general production schedules.

Duties

Major duties and responsibilities include: Receiving all laundry items collected from the medical center. Sorting items received into washing classifications based on fabric content, color, and degree of soil or stains. Taking into account special processing items, such as, pillows, wool blankets, and surgery and isolation linen. Ensuring that all soiled laundry and equipment are kept physically separate from the clean laundry side of the building. Weighing the wash classifications and recording the weight recorded in the production records. Processing the wash classification through the washroom equipment, which consists of 90 lbs., 200 lbs., and two 400 lbs. dry weight capacity pass-through washer/extractors. Ensuring the washer-extractors are loaded according to their rated capacity and that the loads are equally balanced between the wash pockets. Selecting the correct pre-determined wash formula to process the load in order to meet quality control standards. Ensuring appropriate levels are available within the dispensing system prior to the wash cycle and filling if necessary. Using special stain removing chemicals and procedures to remove stains from laundry items. Ensuring that laundry is processed in order of priority needed or according to the general production schedule. Unloading the pass-through washer/extractor into laundry bags and sending the wet wash to other processing departments within the laundry plant. Loading and unloading commercial dryer/tumblers and ensuring that correct time and temperature settings are used for the load being processed. Maintaining the general cleanliness of the washroom at all times and assisting with the general housekeeping in the clean side of the building. Assisting where needed on clean side of laundry, as time permits or when a rush special order is received from user units. Performing other related duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Approved

Requirements

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: The employee needs physical ability for accomplishment of heavy physical tasks for extended periods. Physical demands include pushing heavy carts; lifting loads of over 50 lbs.; pulling wet wash from washer/extractor and continual bending, stooping, walking and standing on concrete floors. Working conditions include machinery noise; hot and humid atmosphere; offensive odors while sorting and washing soiled linen, which is contaminated with infectious organisms and having wet clothing and shoes while pulling laundry loads. Incumbent is subjected to the possibility of minor cutes, scrapes, bruises and needle wounds. 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: Dexterity and SafetyInterpret Instructions, Specifications (other than blueprint reading)MaterialsOperation of Equipment/MachineryTechnical PracticesWork 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 Fayetteville AR VA Medical Center 1100 North College Avenue Fayetteville, AR 72703 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]