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Century Linen & Uniform Inc Load Make-Up Worker in Somerville, Massachusetts
Job Title: Load Make-up Worker
Classification: Non-Exempt
Department(s): Operations
Reports To: Production Supervisor or Shift Manager
Job Location: Service Center
Company Summary:
Century Linen is a fast paced, growing company and we're always seeking talent on all levels. We’re more than laundry! Tour our plants and you’ll see what we mean. Our 400 Somerville, MA location team members operate modern, high-tech washing, drying, and finishing equipment and work in a fast-paced and upbeat environment. We have many different positions and it’s nothing like the laundry you might do at home.
Job Summary:
The Load Make-Up worker is responsible for preparing carts for shipment to customer locations. Load Make-Up staff work as a team, with each member taking roles such as manually packing carts, ensuring all orders are filled, and loading carts onto delivery trucks.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
This position will involve working within a team of people performing similar duties. Along with one or more team members, and Century Load Make-Up worker may perform some or all the following duties during a given shift:
Check packing orders.
Line carts with plastic
Retrieve cleaned/dried linens which have been bundled and load them into carts.
Weigh carts and enter weight into a computer.
Load carts onto delivery truck using a lift.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
N/A
Minimum Qualifications:
Reading and writing comprehension, computer and math skills are typically associated with a high school level education.
Quality orientation and high attention to detail
Able to manage multiple tasks and priorities and easily adapt to changing situations.
Strong teamwork skills- ready and willing to work closely with team members.
Open to and able to work day or night shifts, and willing to rotate shifts depending on production need
Open to long hours and working weekends (Sat/Sun)
Physical Demands consist of standing, walking, reaching overhead, bending, twisting, pushing, pulling, grasping, lifting 50 lbs. or more and stooping.
Physical Demands consist of the ability to move rolling carts of varying weights – up to and exceeding approximately 250lbs.
Physical Requirements consist of being able to meet the physical demands for the entire shift.
Preferred Qualifications:
High School Diploma
Prior experience working in a plant environment.
Prior experience working for Century.
Bilingual (English/Spanish)
Travel Required:
N/A
Physical Requirements:
Physical Requirements consist of being able to meet the physical demands for the entire shift.
The position requires constant standing, bending, stooping, walking and the ability to lift and handle material with weights up to 50 lbs. or more.
Constant pushing/pulling of laundry carts with weights of 250 lbs. is common with some cart weights exceeding 600 lbs.
Work Environment:
Production areas of a typical industrial laundry facility, which includes working with and around large machinery, variations in temperature, noise, odors, humidity, lint, dust, chemicals, and other hazards.
Note: This job description is not an employment agreement or contract, nor designed to contain a definitive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the employee.
Century Linen is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability. If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan or policy statement, or you have a disability and you believe you need reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please call to (617)702-8429. This number is exclusively to assist disabled job seekers whose disability prevents them from being able to apply online. Only messages left for this purpose will be returned. Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled.