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Closing Date: May 1, 2024 @11:00pm CST, or upon the receipt of 50 application submissions.

Laundry Plant Manager

Department: Community Reintegration Center

Full-time, Salary

Salary Range: $62,836.80 - $72,779.20/yr

Job Summary: Manages the Textile Services Division at the Community Reintegration Center for the benefit of all user institutions. Operates the laundry for maximum efficiency, textile and equipment life, and develop resident work culture in all aspects of the operation. Promotes regulatory compliance, safety, adherence to procedures, teamwork and completing work to a certain standard by the deadline.

Schedule: Work schedule is 3am-11am or 4am-12pm, Monday-Friday. Occasional weekends are required.

Essential Responsibilities

• Develop and Lead Staff - Provide routine written, verbal and hands-on guidance to promote flow, control rejects, and optimize equipment function. Work with staff to keep residents informed on a "need to know" basis, productive and focused on expectations. Schedule and initiate personnel actions.
• Promote Process Compliance - Develop people, procedures and washer/dryer program parameters. Encourage outsiders to safely gather, contain or move contaminated textiles. Provide protective gear, appropriate process options, and environmental controls to prevent injury and exposure.
• Uphold a Secure Work Environment - Promote consistent count and contraband awareness, appropriate radio use, take action on unproductive resident behavior and seek assistance with suspicious or potentially dangerous activity. Make the work relevant to the outside especially to the residents.
• Customer Service - Coordinate inventories, resolve complaints, and implement long term sustainable solutions. Offer specialized services in lieu of outsourced county jobs. Stress to staff the importance of customized services in light of the industry becoming highly automated.
• Communication - Review documents of subordinates. Draft memos and reports especially where verbal communication may be less effective due to schedule differences and relevance to others.
• Maintain Production Records and Manage Budget - Promote consistently accurate, timely and relevant data collection. Review raw data, tabulate and provide context as needed. Timely relay impact of decisions, change in process, or budgeting irregularities. Seek revenue and defend long term value over "instant" savings.
• Provide Strategic Labor and Supervisory Relief - Assist staff when/where their plant presence may be critical for flow, preventing errors, or protecting equipment. Be onsite to confirm or monitor progress on certain conditions. "Set the table" for prompt startups and provide support without undermining staff status.
• Assess Plant's Efficiency and Flexibility - Evaluate new technology, advise on repair priorities and use all senses to prevent downtime. Promote best equipment and program options to conserve time, utilities, chemistry and life of machinery and textiles.
• Simplify, Standardize and Encourage County-wide Participation - Educate users to focus procurement and specs to optimize cost-per-use. Select items and sizing to control shelf space, reduce dead stock and keep only essential number of goods constantly circulating.
• Assess Staff and Equipment Utilization Based on Demands - Promote hours/equipment utilization to optimize maintenance access and flow wherever possible. Recognize service voids or inadequacies in other building operations that laundry personnel could fill/improve without compromising primary responsibility.
• Ability to lift and carry up to 50 lbs.; ability to push and pull cart/pallet loads up to 750 lbs.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Education, License/Certification and Experience

• Current residency within the State of Wisconsin upon application required
• Valid Wisconsin Driver's License required and must be maintained throughout incumbency
• High School Diploma, GED or equivalency required
• Three (3) years or more of work experience in industrial, commercial or institutional textile (cloth/woven fabric) processing required
• One (1) year or more of work experience in a Supervisory or Management role required
• Basic knowledge of all related computer and software applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Teams required

Preferred Education, License/Certification and Experiences

• Association for Linen Management (ALM) or International Executive Housekeepers Association (IEHA) certification or registration preferred
• Previous work experience with OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Standards preferred

Note: This ORIGINAL APPLICATION is open to qualified residents of the State of Wisconsin at the time of application. Candidates need to submit a full account of their training and experience (i.e., by submitting an up-to-date resume or by fully completing the application) during the application process and may also be asked to take additional written or performance tests as part of the selection process.

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Milwaukee County is committed to fostering an equitable working environment, free from discrimination and harassment, on the basis of any characteristic protected by law. We prohibit any form of discrimination, harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, pregnancy related condition, national origin, age, disability, FMLA status, sexual orientation, military status, marital status, or any other category or status that is now or in the future protected by federal, state, and local law. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing, background checks and pre-employment physicals subject to job requirements. If special accommodations are needed, please contact 414-278-3936.

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