Production Associate - Finishing Floor

Novo Building Products•Madison, WI

About The Position

The Production Associate works on the finishing floor, inspecting and feeding linen into ironers, folding and bundling items, and moving finished linen on conveyors or carts. Work may be performed at small or large flat ironers or at a dry-scrub hand-folding station. Associates inspect linen for stains, tears, and holes, reject unsuitable items, and follow category, size, and bundling instructions. The role also includes operating and monitoring equipment, responding to jams, notifying a lead worker of problems, and completing departmental tasks such as moving rewash, stains, and mending items and cleaning work areas and equipment. Associates rotate among work stations hourly unless under medical restriction.

Responsibilities

Retrieve linen baskets or carts from storage and position them at the appropriate workstation.
Feed linen into small or large flat ironers, or spread items onto the large ironer while keeping hems positioned outward and the leading edge straight.
Inspect linen for stains, tears, and holes; reject unsuitable items and place them in designated piles or baskets.
Set folder categories and fold, stack, or bundle items according to specified quantities, sizes, or colors; place finished items on conveyors or carts.
Move empty baskets and carts to storage and move finished bundles to conveyors or designated locations.
Set ironer speeds and folder controls to match items being processed; turn off equipment and remove jammed items when necessary.
Monitor equipment for problems and notify the lead worker about equipment or linen issues.
Perform station-specific tasks, including removing belts from pants, removing knots from jail sheets, separating bedspreads by color, sorting contours and ponchos, patching holes, and cleaning under machines after category changes.
Move rewash to soil sort; weigh and record stains, final stains, and mending, then transport them to the designated areas.
Rotate among work stations hourly unless under medical restriction; clean work areas and equipment as needed and cover baskets for the next day's processing.