Production Associate - Finishing Floor - 2nd shift

Novo Building Products•Madison, WI

2d•Onsite

About The Position

NOVO Health Services offers linen management solutions to the healthcare industry. NOVO Health keenly focuses on safety and infection control and provides its partner hospitals with a value-driven linen management control system that measures and monitors linen utilization by department to eliminate excess internal costs. NOVO's wide range of service programs offer a variety of options to provide a seamless, single source distribution system. NOVO's regional healthcare linen facilities are HLAC accredited and operate with state-of-the-art processing equipment and processes.

Requirements

Inspect for stains, tears, holes.
Use reject control lever while feeding to reject item.
Inspect for stains, tears, holes; place rejects into proper basket.
Inspect for stains, tears, holes. Use reject control lever while feeding to reject item.
Remove mis-sorted linen and place in appropriate basket.
Patch holes in linen.

Nice To Haves

Rotate among work stations hourly, unless under medical restriction.

Responsibilities

Inspect and feed linen into ironer; fold, bundle, and place on conveyors or carts.
Get a basket of linen from storage. Position basket in front of ironer.
Feed linen into the ironer.
Inspect for stains, tears, holes. Use reject control lever while feeding to reject item.
Catchers set the category on the folder control.
Catchers fold and/or stack items in bundles of 5, 10, 20, or 50.
Catchers remove any items found with stains, tears, holes. Place rejects into piles or baskets.
Move empty basket to storage.
Set the ironer speed and/or folder controls consistent with items being processed.
Turn off equipment; remove jammed items.
Watch/listen for equipment problems.
Notify lead worker of equipment or linen problems.
Move a cart of dry scrubs from storage to the sorting station.
Remove item from cart.
Inspect for stains, tears, holes; place rejects into proper basket.
Fold item; place in bundles of ten according to size (color code).
Load piles on conveyor directly, or hand to Lead Worker to load on conveyor.
Remove belts from pants. Bundle in.
At end of day, cover baskets
Notify lead worker of equipment or linen problems.
Dump the sling containing work onto table or position cart for feeding.
Tie sling and release empty sling.
Pull items out of cart or table and throw onto spreader with hems to the outside. Pace to match feeders.
Center item in ironer. Keep leading edge straight.
Inspect for stains, tears, holes. Use reject control lever while feeding to reject item.
Catchers set the category on the folder control.
Catchers fold and/or stack items in bundles of 10; move to conveyor.
Catchers remove any items found with stains, tears, holes. Place rejects into piles or baskets.
Remove knots from jail sheets.
Separate bedspreads according to color.
Clean under machine after categories are changed.
Remove mis-sorted linen and place in appropriate basket.
Sort contours and ponchos into correct baskets.
Set the ironer speed and/or folder controls consistent with items being processed.
Patch holes in linen.
Turn off equipment; remove jammed items.
Watch/listen for equipment problems.
Notify lead worker of equipment or linen problems.
Move rewash to soilsort.
Move stain to scale, weigh and record, move stain to washroom.
Move final stain to scale, weigh and record, vacuum final stain to mending.
Move mending to scale, weigh and record, vacuum mending to mending.
Rotate among work stations hourly, unless under medical restriction.
May clean work area and equipment.
Cover baskets to be processed for the next day