Production Associate - Finishing Floor

NOVO•Madison, WI

About The Position

The Production Associate works on the finishing floor, inspecting and feeding linen into ironers and folding, bundling, and moving finished items to conveyors or carts. Work may involve small flat ironers, dry scrubs, or large flat ironers, with associates rotating among work stations hourly unless under medical restriction. Duties also include removing rejected linen, handling rewash and stains, assisting with mending processes, and keeping work areas and equipment clean. Associates monitor equipment and linen quality and report problems to a lead worker.

Responsibilities

Retrieve linen baskets or carts from storage and position them at the appropriate work station.
Feed linen into small or large flat ironers, keeping items properly positioned and paced for processing.
Inspect linen for stains, tears, and holes; reject unsuitable items using the reject control lever or place them in the appropriate basket or pile.
Set folder categories and fold or stack items into bundles of specified quantities, including bundles of 5, 10, 20, or 50 as applicable.
Move finished items to conveyors or carts and return empty baskets to storage.
Move carts of dry scrubs to the sorting station, inspect and fold items, bundle them by size, and place or hand them to the lead worker for conveyor loading.
Tie and release empty slings and load items onto the spreader with hems to the outside.
Perform incidental linen handling, sorting, and preparation tasks, including removing knots, separating bedspreads by color, sorting contours and ponchos, removing mis-sorted linen, and patching holes.
Set ironer speed or folder controls to match items being processed; turn equipment off and remove jammed items when needed.
Watch and listen for equipment issues and notify the lead worker of equipment or linen problems.
Move rewash, stains, final stains, and mending through the designated areas, weighing and recording items where specified.
Rotate among work stations hourly unless under medical restriction; clean the work area and equipment as needed and cover baskets for next-day processing.