Laundry Worker

Laundry Worker

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

Location(s): Huntington, West Virginia

Salary Range: $18.04 - $21.05 Per Hour

Job Summary: The incumbent is responsible for but not limited to receiving, sorting, pick-up and delivery of clean and soiled linen of the facility laundry plant. Loading, unloading, and operating washers, extractors and tumblers. Work also involves classifying, checking, marking, and sorting soiled linen and/or appeal. In addition, the incumbent will perform flatwork operations, i.e., shaking out wet laundry, catching, folding, and stacking ironed flatwork.

Major Duties:

• Major Duties: Works independently and will be able to understand and interpret written and verbal instructions to complete assigned duties. Provides customer service to all ward, clinical, and surgical areas of the medical center. This involves the use of carts, baskets and assorted delivery and processing equipment, and use of the ergo power equipment to move carts with. Must be able to recognize the difference between different fabric for sorting and washing purposes so that the appropriate chemicals are used for washing, processing, and assuring the appropriate equipment is used. During normal work routine, incumbent will fold rough dry items, operate the various machines, such as feeder, ironer, and small piece folder and appropriately stack, bundle, and store for shipment to using areas of the medical center. Incumbent must also be able to recognize items that need to be surveyed, rewashed, or repaired and placed in proper areas for further evaluation. Responsible for the cleanliness and neatness of the patient clothing room, clean linen area, all offices in the laundry, the break room, sewing room, baggage room and storage rooms which involves vacuuming, high dusting, using air pressure, wet mopping and damp dusting. Routinely comes in contact with patients, visitors, and medical center staff while working in laundry and linen operations. Incumbent has direct dealings with the medical center staff of issuing of uniforms and delivery of linens towards or picking up soiled linens from wards. When dealing with patients, visitors, and medical center staff, considerable courtesy, tact, and diplomacy is necessary. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday,6:00am-2:30pm Position Description Title/PD#: Laundry Worker/26180-A Physical Requirements: Incumbent is in physically demanding production environment that requires continual pushing, pulling, lifting, standing, bending, stooping, and reaching for hours at a time. These factors are encountered daily in the regular operations of handling clean and soiled linen. Weight of the linen handled varies to as much as 75 pounds from both the processing and delivery areas. Incumbent is responsible to move heavy carts of clean and soiled linens throughout the medical center. Working Conditions: Incumbent is exposed to normal hospital hazards as well as those hazards encountered with working around and in proximity of fast-moving equipment and transport cars. The area assigned is clean and well-ventilated. Area is hot during the summer months and comfortable for winter. Area has associated noise level found in normal plant operations with concurrent drafts from loading doc areas being left open for pick up and delivery of clean and soiled linen. The incumbent will be exposed to all conditions inherent in the laundry/linen process: dust, lint, detergent burns, skin irritations, chapped hands, discomfort of the respiratory system, and possible contamination from souled linens and isolation linens. Incumbent is frequently exposed to disagreeable signs and odors. Incumbent shall use all appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) while handling soiled linen, such as patient gowns, masks, gloves, etc.

Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. EXPERIENCE: A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstrates you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards. SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated. The potential eligibles are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements: Interpret Instructions, Specifications (other than blueprint reading) Materials Operation of Equipment/Machinery Special Aptitude Technical Practices Work Practices Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

How to Apply: Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an application. To apply for this position, you must complete the initial online application, to include the initial online questionnaire and submission of the required documentation specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration. To preview the application questionnaire, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12859186. The application process is as follows: To begin, click Apply Online to create a USA JOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents. Answer the questions presented in the application and attach all necessary supporting documentation. Click the Submit Application button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing date, 01/12/2026. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you will be notified after submitting your application. The notification will be provided in your application submission screen and via email. The notification will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this application" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodation before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside at least 3 hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue later, you can re-use your unique assessment link. NOTE: Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments will be reused for one year (in most cases) from the date you complete an assessment. If future applications you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses will be automatically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparation resources at https://support-usahire.opm.gov/hc/en-us. To update your application, including supporting documentation: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your application record, and click Edit my application. This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to update the resumes in your profile before applying for a job. Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. If initial application submission is updated and resubmitted with a new resume the most current resume will be reviewed for consideration. Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Helpful Hints for Creating a Two-Page Resume: Prioritize most relevant and recent experience Use concise, results focused language Align language from the job announcement Focus on demonstrating skills and competencies Remove outdated or unrelated experience Use the USAJOBS resume builder Additional guidance on this new requirement and resume building tools can be found at https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents/resume/page-limit.

Application Deadline: 2026-01-12