This position is located at the Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Medical Center, under Environmental Management Services, in Salem, Virginia. The position involves a wide variety of laundry work that requires substantial physical effort to lift bundles of laundry. Responsibilities will ensure that all records are adequately maintained since they become a part of the laundry production report.

Duties

Major duties and responsibilities include (but are not limited to) Ensures receiving, sorting, and marking soiled linen and apparel; processing flatwork and roughdry items; Assembles and issuing clean laundry; Ensures; shaking out wet laundry' feeding into the flatwork ironer; catching, folding, and stacking ironed flatwork; folding roughdry laundry; Requires understanding written procedures, directives and instructions, as well as oral instructions Provides understanding and ability to apply detailed instructions; Provides correct weigh amount of presorted soiled linens and record correct weight on production sheet; Sets marking machine on laundry ticket and all unmarked laundry items; checks number of items on ticket against those submitted; Provides notes on the ticket numbers of items that do not agree with ticket; Follows prescribed aseptic techniques, particularly in handling of contaminated linens; Requires folding ironed flatwork at the delivery end of the flatwork ironer, placing in stacks of prescribed numbers; Wraps family or personal bundles with paper or plastic; Operates handkerchief press; Performs other duties as assigned Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 6:45 am - 3:30 pm. Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized

Requirements

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: The position is subject to continuous walking, stretching, stooping, lifting, pulling, pushing all of which are repetitive- type tasks. May be required to frequently lift bundles weighing up to 35 pounds and, on occasions, lift bundles weighing over 50 pounds. The position is subject to continual dampness, high humidity, excessive heat and noise. Must stand and walk on concrete floors, which on many occasions are either damp or wet. 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 SafetyFollow DirectionsHandle Weights and LoadsUse and Maintain Tools and EquipmentWithout more than normal supervisionWork 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 Salem VA Medical Center 1970 Roanoke Boulevard Salem, VA 24153 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]