These positions are located within the Textile Care Unit, Environmental Management Service at the VA Long Beach Health Care System, Long Beach, CA. You will receive clean linen from the VISN Textile Care facility and assist with the loading and off-loading of clean and soiled linens to and from the linen delivery trailer. PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: Workers must be able to stand or walk continuously on concrete floors and will need a certain amount of quickness in hand and arm movements to keep up with the established production standards. Laundries can be extremely noisy and usually hot and humid, and workers are exposed to the possibility of bruises from carts or machinery. If required to sort laundry, workers wear protective masks, gloves and gowns. Work requires considerable lifting, carrying, and relocating of linens weighing as much as 20-70 lbs. Items such as chairs, desks, file cabinets, boxes and some laundry detergents may require dollies to move. Items heavier than 8 kilograms (40 pounds) are moved with appropriate weight handling equipment or with assistance from other workers. Assistance with moving heavy equipment and linen throughout the Medical Center will require assistance in movement of such linen and equipment due to weight, size, and other conditions as required by the assignment. Assignments will be performed under all weather conditions. An applicant is continually on the alert to avoid injuries from hand or powered tools. Applicants may be exposed to eye and skin injury from flying debris and will be required to wear protective gear to reduce the risk of injury. In addition, the applicant will be required to wear ear plugs, safety glasses, protective gloves, masks, and back braces when needed. Assignments will require work being completed in high noise levels and can involve some contact with adhesives that may be related to moves. Work will require wearing protective clothing such as hardhats, steel-toed shoes, rubber gloves, masks, and rubber aprons. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume. You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position: Customer Service (Clerical/Technical) Dexterity and Safety Interpret Instructions, Specifications (other than blueprint reading) Operation of Equipment/Machinery Work Practices IMPORTANT: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. All experience listed on your resume must include the month and year start/end dates. 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. 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; religious; 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. ["Your duties can include but are not limited to the following: Receive, sort, and mark soiled linen and apparel. Conduct a semiannual linen inventory. Deliver carts containing clean linen to various wards and clinics and return the previous day's linen carts to the Central Linen Room for loading. Collect soiled linen bags from various locations throughout the medical facility. Prepare inventory reports and oversee the receiving and logging of all incoming linen items. Arrange pallets based on height, weight, and special handling requirements. Responsible for the cleanliness of the work area. Perform other related duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Various work schedules available, evenings, days, weekends and holidays Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized"]

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