Laundry Sorting Tech - Full Time - Days

bestcare; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 17,908 - 23,419; Full time

Job summary

Nebraska Methodist Health System in Omaha, NE is seeking a Laundry Aide to process soiled linens, load and sort items, and operate conveyors on a Mon-Fri 5am–1:30pm schedule. This role involves following universal precautions, lifting heavy loads, and maintaining a clean work environment.

No prior experience required as training is provided; candidates must be able to stand for long periods and work safely with linen and cleaning equipment.

Qualifications

• Must be able to lift and transport bags of linen safely.
• Ability to stand for an eight hour shift and perform repetitive motions.

Responsibilities

• Process incoming soiled linens for washing.
• Load linens onto conveyors and sort by item type.
• Operate the soiled sort conveyors and cleaning equipment.
• Follow universal precautions and safety rules.
• Assist with daily cleaning and sanitation of work areas.
• Support shift goals by maintaining accurate logs and communicating issues to supervision.

Skills

Lifting

Stamina

Safety awareness

English proficiency

Education

No formal education required

Job description

Why work for Nebraska Methodist Health System?

At Nebraska Methodist Health System, we focus on providing exceptional care to the communities we serve and people we employ. We call it The Meaning of Care – a culture that has and will continue to set us apart. It’s helping families grow by making each delivery special, conveying a difficult diagnosis with a compassionate touch, going above and beyond for a patient’s needs, or giving a high five when a patient beats a disease or conquers a personal health challenge. We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits and a great work environment where all employees are valued! Most importantly, our employees are part of a team that makes a real difference in the communities we live and work in.

Job Summary

Location: Shared Service Systems

Address: 1725 S 20th St. - Omaha, NE

Work Schedule: Mon-Fri 5am to 1:30pm

Processes incoming soiled linens to ready then for the washing process. Loads soiled linen onto soiled conveyor. Sorts and separates soiled linens at soiled conveyor and in the soiled sort area. Practices Universal Precautions. Adheres and complies with company policies outlining procedures and techniques used in the handling of soiled linens.

Essential Functions

1. Ensures all guidelines pertaining to Universal precautions are adhered to on a daily basis.

2. Wears protective gloves, barrier gown, and protective eye wear. Also utilizes optional masks caps and shoe covers. These items must be removed and hand washed before going into clean areas and lunch room.

3. Transports dirty linen from incoming racks / baskets to soiled conveyor belt. Open bags, loading soiled linen on conveyor.

4. Separates mops, rags, bibs, surgery towels dish towels, aprons, lab coats, specified scrub clothes and other linen as designated.

5. Identifies heavily soiled linens and separates them to be washed in first floor extractors.

6. Cleans empty racks / baskets removing trash and foreign materials. Then sterilizes all racks and baskets before pushing them to the clean side of laundry. Must ensure sling travel areas are not blocked.

7. Keeps accounts processed separated. Puts labeled dividers onto the soiled conveyor belt notifying sorters that accounts have been changed.

8. Sorts linens by items into specified laundry chutes, ensuring each piece is placed in proper bin.

• Feeding - 2250 pounds per hour
• Sorting - 964 pounds per hour

10. Fills sorting bins to designated tape lines, and discharges bins when filled.

11. Operates panel that runs the soiled sort conveyors.

12. Using lift, lowers heavy soiled linen and other specified items from 2nd floor to first floor wash room.

13. Informs supervisor of problems pertaining to daily operations or equipment.

14. Follows established procedures when dealing with sharps, hazardous materials or customers lost and found items.

15. Practices set safety guidelines that pertain to equipment and the work environment. Takes action to correct and communicate unsafe conditions.

16. Keeps work area clean and sweeps daily at end of shift. Does lint control functions blowing down equipment weekly.

17. Cleans and disinfects soiled conveyor belts on a weekly basis.

18. Watches for and identifies yellow bags, black bags and hazardous bags that take special processing.

19. Opens new linen readying for the wash process.

20. Works in clean processing area when needed.

21. Reviews rejected (blue bag) linen sorting into rags, rewash and stain-wash classifications.

22. Cleans and disinfects customer pillows readying them to be returned to customers.

Schedule

Mon-Fri 5am to 1:30pm

Job Description

Job Requirements

Education

• For safety reasons, qualified applicants must be able to speak and understand English sufficiently to perform safety requirements and demonstrate the ability to follow safety rules required.

Experience

• No experience necessary, will train.

License/Certifications

• N/A

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Ability to lift and transport bags of linen.
• Constant turning, twisting, stooping and crouching movements to remove linens from racks and baskets.
• Requires constant grasping and pulling abilities .
• Must be able to stand for an eight hour shift.
• Employs the use of repetitive motions on a daily basis.
• Ability to multitask and plan workload.

Physical Requirements

Weight Demands

• Heavy Work - Exerting up to 100 pounds of force.

Not necessary for the position (0%)

• Crawling
• Kneeling

Occasionally Performed (1%-33%)

• Balancing
• Climbing
• Keyboarding/typing
• Sitting
• Speaking/talking

Frequently Performed (34%-66%)

• Carrying
• Crouching
• Distinguish colors
• Grasping
• Twisting
• Walking

Constantly Performed (67%-100%)

• Hearing
• Lifting
• Pulling/Pushing
• Reaching
• Repetitive Motions
• Seeing/Visual
• Standing
• Stooping/bending

Job Hazards

Not Related

• Explosives (pressurized gas)
• Electrical Shock/Static
• Radiation Alpha, Beta and Gamma (particles such as X-ray, Cat Scan, Gamma Knife, etc)
• Radiation Non-Ionizing (Ultraviolet, visible light, infrared and microwaves that causes injuries to tissue or thermal or photochemical means)

Rare (1-33%)

• Chemical agents (Toxic, Corrosive, Flammable, Latex)
• Biological agents (primary air born and blood born viruses) (Jobs with Patient contact) (BBF)
• Physical hazards (noise, temperature, lighting, wet floors, outdoors, sharps) (more than ordinary office environment)

Frequent (67%-100%)

• Equipment/Machinery/Tools
• Mechanical moving parts/vibrations

About Methodist

Nebraska Methodist Health System is made up of four hospitals in Nebraska and southwest Iowa, more than 30 clinic locations, a nursing and allied health college, and a medical supply distributorship and central laundry facility. From the day Methodist Hospital was chartered in 1891, service to our communities has been a top priority. Financial assistance, health education, outreach to our diverse communities and populations, and other community benefit activities have always been central to our mission.

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