responsibilities for this position include:
- Cleans all hotel linens
- Receive items from customers and mark them with codes or names
- Inspect articles for stains and fabrics that require special care
- Sort articles to be cleaned by fabric type, color, and cleaning technique
- Load clothing into laundry and dry-cleaning machines
- Add detergent, bleach, and other chemicals to laundry and dry-cleaning machines
- Remove, sort, and hang clothing and other articles after they are removed from the machines
- Clean and maintain laundry and dry-cleaning machines
- Laundry workers ensure proper cleaning of clothing, linens, and other articles
- Adjust machine settings for a given fabric or article, as determined by the cleaning instructions on each item of clothing
- Ensure proper type and amount of cleaning detergent or liquid solvents to washing machines, which agitate clothes similar to washing machines in most homes
- When necessary, treat spots and stains on articles before washing
- Monitor machines during the cleaning process and ensure that items are not lost or placed with items of another customer
