Laundry Attendant

Windsor Hospitality

Date: 4 days ago
City: Temecula, California
Contract type: Full time
Description

Purpose for the Position:

To tend laundering machines to clean articles such as wearing apparel, sheets, blankets, and other linens used by the hotel and guests.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Loads articles into washer and ads specific amount if detergent, soap, or other cleaning agent.
  • Turns valve to fill washer with water.
  • Starts machine that automatically washes and rinses articles.
  • Lifts clean, wet articles from washer and places them successively into wringers and driers for measured time cycles.
  • Sorts dried articles according to identification number or type.
  • Folds and places item in appropriate storage bin.
  • Lubricates machine, using grease gun and oilcan.
  • May dissolve soap granules in hot water and steam to make liquid soap.
  • May mend torn articles using needle and thread.
  • May sort and count articles to verify quantities on laundry lists.
  • May soak contaminated articles in neutralizer solutions in vat to precondition washing.
  • May mix dyes and bleaches according to formula, and dye and bleach specified articles.
  • All other duties as assigned by a manager or supervisor.

Skills and Abilities:

  • Follow instructions
  • Adjust to doing the same thing over and over.
  • Move or lift heavy objects.
  • Pay attention to safety rules when working around machinery.

Physical Demands: Medium work: Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time), and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time), and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects.

Environmental Conditions: Inside: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. A job is considered “inside” if the worker spends approximately 75 percent or more of the time inside.

Extremes of Heat Plus Temperature Changes: Extremes of heat: Temperature sufficiently high to cause marked bodily discomfort unless the worker is provided with exceptional protection. Temperature Changes: Variations in temperature, which are sufficiently marked and abrupt to cause noticeable bodily reactions.

Wet and Humid: Wet: Contact with water or other liquids. Humid: Atmospheric condition with moisture content sufficiently high to cause marked bodily discomfort.

Noise and Vibration: Sufficient noise, either constant or intermittent, to cause marked distraction or possible injury to the sense of hearing, and / or sufficient vibration (production of an oscillating movement or strain on the body or its extremities from repeated motion or shock) to cause bodily harm if endured day after day.

Reasoning, Mathematical and Language Development are indicative of the general level of development required to do this job. Some, but not necessarily all, areas mentioned in this section will be included in this job.

Reasoning Development: Apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in or from standardized situations.

Mathematical Development: Add and subtract two digit numbers. Multiply and divide 10’s and 100’s by 2,3,4 and 5. Perform the four basic arithmetic operations with coins and as part of a dollar. Perform operations with units such as cup, pint and quart; inch, foot, and yard; or ounce and pound.

Language Development: Reading: Recognize meaning of 2,500 (two or three syllable) words. Read at a rate of 95-120 words per minute. Compare similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. Writing: Print simple sentences containing subject, verb, and object, and series of numbers, names, and addresses. Speaking: Speak simple sentences, using normal word order, and present and past tenses.

Relationships to Data, People and Things:

Data: Comparing: Judging the readily observable, functional, structural or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

People: Taking instructions helping: Helping applies to “non-learning” helpers. No variety of implicit wishes of people is involved in this function

Things: Tending: Starting, stopping, and observing the functioning of machines and equipment. Involves adjusting materials or controls of the machine, such as changing guides, adjusting timers and temperature gages, turning valves to allow flow or materials, and flipping switches in response to lights. Little judgment is involved in making these adjustments.

Specific Vocational Preparation:

Specific Vocational Preparation includes an occupationally significant combination of: vocational education, apprentice training, in-plant training, on-the-job training, or essential experience in less responsible jobs which lead to the higher job or serving in other jobs.

Anything beyond short demonstration up to and including 30 days.

To do this job, you must have the following licenses or certifications before being hired:

To do this job, you must have the following amount of total education and/or experience: (If hiring someone into this position, this would be the minimum amount of experience and education that would be required in order for the incumbent to have a reasonable expectation for success.)

Or An Equivalent Level Of Education And Experience.

Attendance:

Regular attendance in conformance with the standards, which may be established by WCG, Inc. from time to time, is essential to the successful performance of this position. Employees with irregular attendance / tardies will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment. Upon employment, all employees are required to fully comply with Windsor Capital Group, Inc. rules and regulations will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.
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