Laundry Sorting Tech - Full Time - Days
Methodist Health System
- Omaha, NE
- Permanent
- Full-time
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 Services
Address: 1725 S. 20th ST. Omaha, NE 68108Typical Work Schedule: 5am - 1:30pmProcesses 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.Responsibilities:Essential Functions1. 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.9. Production Standards:
- Feeding - 2250 pounds per hour
- Sorting - 964 pounds per hour
- 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.
- No experience necessary, will train.
- N/A
- 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.
- Heavy Work - Exerting up to 100 pounds of force.
- Crawling
- Kneeling
- Balancing
- Climbing
- Keyboarding/typing
- Sitting
- Speaking/talking
- Carrying
- Crouching
- Distinguish colors
- Grasping
- Twisting
- Walking
- Hearing
- Lifting
- Pulling/Pushing
- Reaching
- Repetitive Motions
- Seeing/Visual
- Standing
- Stooping/bending
- 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)
- 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)
- Equipment/Machinery/Tools
- Mechanical moving parts/vibrations