Production Employee-B

General Production Employee

Responsibilities:

• Work in assigned area of production responsibility as scheduled in a safe and efficient manner.
• Attend departmental and branch meetings as needed to engage and complete education and training.
• Assist fellow production workers by performing duties of lesser skill, such as supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work areas and equipment.
• Consistently seek the improvement and development in assigned role/job and skills.  Seek to develop multiple areas of capability in order to support the production team.
• Create and support a culture of adherence to branch standardization in support of financial, service, and safety goals.
• Offer duties as assigned by supervisor or manager.

Qualifications:

• Ability to work assigned shift - attendance is required.
• Basic math reasoning skills.
• Lifting Ability: up to 25-50 pounds continuously; Push/Pull Ability; up to 150 pounds assisted.
• Able to Stand/Walk/Sit for 8-10 hours a day.
• Capability to work in a fast-paced work environment that may have fluctuating temperatures and loud noise levels while working with machinery in a safe and conscientious manner.
• Must be able to adhere to safety standards.

Experience:

• Prior experience in an industrial laundry or production environment preferred - Here at Aramark we do provide training.
• Capability of understanding work instructions (in preferred English).
• Quality workmanship, teamwork and regular attendance are essential in these roles.

Production Duties:

Soil Operations:

• Receive; scan (track) bags of soiled garments onto counting tables.  Examine articles to be cleaned, according to color, fabric, dirt content, and cleaning technique required.
• Inspect spoiled articles to determine sources of stains, to locate color imperfections, and to identify items requiring special treatment or repair.
• Place soiled garments/products into push carts (or other designated material handling equipment) for delivery to wash and dry aisle.

Dry Fold:

• Take clean product (gowns, aprons, towels, etc.) from basket, inspect product quality and place product into folding machine.  
• Feed clean towels into bagging machine; inspecting product quality prior to feeding into bagging machine.
• Hold sort inspect and fold clean product.

Garments:

• Place garments in proper areas for steam tunnel; iron or finishing.
• Place garments on hangers and hang on conveyor for steam tunnel processing.
• Iron press applicable products and transfer finished products to bundling.
• Observe equipment operations so that malfunctions can be detected and notify engineering of any malfunctions.

Mending:

• Inspect garments to determine if minor sewing repair is necessary or if garments need to be replaced.
• Perform sewing tasks, such as zipper and button repairs, mending hems, etc.
• Ability to use sewing machine.
• Observe equipment operations so that malfunctions can be detected, and notify engineering of any malfunctions.

Mat:

• Roll mats using rolling machine.
• Put mats into storage.
• Fill mat orders: sort rugs into carts for route preparation.
• Observe equipment operations so that malfunctions can be detected and notify engineering of any malfunctions.

Iron Operations:

• Take clean napkins from basket, inspect for quality, place product into machine for processing.
• Take clean tablecloths/sheets from basket, inspect for quality, clip corners into machine and feed through machine.
• Observe equipment operations so that malfunctions can be detected and notify engineering of any malfunctions.

Bundling:

• Bundle garments/product in a logical and coherent manner to ensure proper delivery to customer(s).
• Verify or count finished products to determine if product bundles or orders are complete.
• Load cleaned garments/product onto distribution trucks or other like material handling equipment for proper customer delivery.