laundry worker
Your tasks
- Mix and add detergents, dyes, bleaches, starches and other solutions and chemicals.
- Hand fold and bag shirts, sheets and other articles.
- Hand iron laundered fine linens or dry-cleaned silk garments.
- Operate finishing equipment such as steam pressers, and use hand irons to finish pants, jackets, shirts, skirts and other dry cleaned and laundered articles.
- Check finished dry-cleaned or laundered articles to ensure that establishment standards are met.
- Record damage or improper cleaning or laundering of articles.
Requirements
Education Secondary (high) school graduation certificate.
Security and safety Criminal record check.
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail.
- Fast-paced environment.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Large workload.
- Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Work under pressure.
Weight handling Up to 23 kg (50 lbs).
Personal suitability Team player.
Screening questions Do you have experience working in this field?.
7 months to less than 1 year.
Other
Work site environment
- Hot.
- Noisy.
- Odours.
- Wet/damp.
Work setting Hotel laundry.
Employment terms options Early morning.
Employment terms options
- Evening.
- Shift.
- Morning.
- Night.
- Day.
- Weekend.
Support for persons with disabilities Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports persons with disabilities .
Support for newcomers and refugees Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees.
Support for youths Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment.
Support for Veterans Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Veterans .
Support for Indigenous people Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people.
Support for mature workers Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination .
Supports for visible minorities Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.).