About the Role
Performs work as part of a team in an industrial laundry facility, responsible for the safe, expeditious, and accurate handling of merchandise into and/or out of the facility.
Responsibilities
- Leads orders from the trolley or pulls used merchandise for mending, replacement, and exchange
- Pulls badges/emblems and attaches to order form, sorts batches by garment families, sews badges/emblems on garments, and hems pants
- Identifies and segregates merchandise not meeting specified quality standards and company grading policy for used garments in terms of rips, tears, holes, ink spots, missing buttons, loose hems, and stains
- Accurately counts and sorts merchandise, and sew badges/emblems straight and on the proper garments
- Replaces garments on trolley and pushes completed trolley to next station
- Maintains safe and clean work environment, and observes best practices in all production activities
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Ability to understand all required training, written, and verbal instructions
- Working knowledge of basic math skills
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to meet attendance schedule
- Work is performed in a warehouse setting and regularly exposed to outside weather conditions, extreme heat and cold conditions as well as dust and noise
- Work is based on a shift schedule, and may include weekends
- Overtime required as needed
- Requires the ability to move, lift, carry, push, or pull bags weighing up to 20 lbs.
- Requires the ability to move, lift, carry, push, or pull product weighing up to 10 lbs
- Requires bending, reaching, pulling, twisting, pressing, and lifting
- Requires the use of hands for grasping and other manipulations
- Requires standing and walking for long periods of time
Skills
- Basic math skills
- Verbal and written communication skills
Location
- MC#271E Troy NY
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Entry Level
Education Level
- High school degree or equivalent preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $16 - $25 an hour
Benefits
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
About the Company
- Headquartered in Roswell, GA, Vestis® is the second largest provider in the industry with over 300,000 customer locations and approximately 20,000 teammates across North America.
- Vestis® is a leader in the B2B uniform and workplace supplies category.
- Vestis® provides clean and safe uniform services and workplace supplies to a broad range of North American customers from Fortune 500 companies to locally owned small businesses across a broad set of end markets.
- The Company’s comprehensive service offering includes a full-service uniform rental program, cleanroom and other specialty garment processing, floor mats, towels, linens, managed restroom services, first aid supplies and more.
Equal Opportunity
- Vestis® is an equal-opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, relation, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status.
- Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
- This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.
- For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
- Vestis Commitment to Equal Opportunity Employment
- If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, you will find the contact information below to request the appropriate accommodation.
- Reasonable Accommodations and the Online Application Process
- Consistent with Vestis and Canadian Linen’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who need assistance in applying electronically for a position with Vestis or Canadian Linen, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship.
- To request a reasonable accommodation for this purpose, please call 1-833-901-8823 or email us at accessibility@vestis.com.
- Please note that this phone number is to be used solely to request an accommodation with respect to the online application process.
- Calls for any other reason will not be returned.
- Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.
- Thank you for your interest in an employment opportunity with Vestis, Canadian Linen and Québec Linge.
