Meet Vestis®: For the People Who Make It All Work
At Vestis®, we provide uniforms, workplace supplies, and professional cleaning that help businesses simplify their workday and keep their teams safe, confident, and focused on what matters most. More than a provider, we are a partner in productivity, trusted to keep you running.
Join us and build a career supporting the people who make it all work.
Job Summary
Executes work in accordance with Company safety guidelines and in a productive and efficient manner. Responsible for overall oversight of daily production activities for an assigned department or a rotating set of departments or assignments. Working under direction from the plant and/or production manager seeks to optimizes workflow and efficiency and meet production goals and profitability objectives. Directly supervises production workers to ensure that production standards are followed, and goals are achieved, positive employee relations result, and policies, rules and regulations and procedures are followed.
Essential Job Tasks and Activities
Typical tasks and activities for this job include but are not limited to the items listed below. Additional duties may be assigned from time to time as needed by management.
General Duties
- Oversees assigned area of production responsibility as scheduled in a safe and efficient manner.
- Monitors work activities in assigned area and ensures company safety policies are followed and in compliance with work rules and requirements.
- Trains new and existing employees on safe and efficient production, department and company policy/practice-related topics and practices.
- Attends departmental and market center meetings to engage and complete education and training.
- Develops and maintains positive employee relations by consistently applying company policies and practices across the work group, and recognizing, understanding and valuing employee differences and contributions.
- Identifies and recommends production improvement strategies that enhance equipment and worker performance, efficiency and product quality to the plant and/or production manager.
- Creates and support a culture of adherence to market center standardization in support of safety, financial, and service goals.
- Other duties as assigned by plant and/or production or general manager.
- Supervises the following department areas (either directly or through Leads) and may assist with activities as needed throughout the workday (or shift):
- Receive and Soil Sort/ Classification
- Wash Dry Aisle
- Garment Finishing/Sortation Press and Steam
- Bundle and Distribution
The requirements listed above are representative of the job duties to required by all to perform in the various production areas. Specific work detail and instruction may vary by location and equipment being used.
Job Context
Supervisory Responsibilities
This position will oversee a small group or functional areas and 2 or more production employees. They will lead the day-to-day function of that group under the direction of a plant and/or production manager.
Team and Work Orientation
This position will be expected to work with various individuals and teams in a market center and to collaboratively support, develop, and execute production effort(s).
Work Environment
This position works in an industrial laundry environment. A laundry production floor with loud noises, heat, and hazardous equipment in use at all times.
Required Qualifications
Potential candidates for this job will be sought that have strong indication of capability with the following items.
Minimum Education/Experience
- Capability to work safely and conscientious manner in a fast paced, loud work environment with machinery.
- Proved record of work attendance.
- Capability of reading and understanding work instructions in English.
- Basic Math reasoning skills.
- Lifting Ability; up to 50 pounds; Push/Pull Ability; up to 300 pounds assisted
Preferred Education/Experience
- Two years industrial laundry experience.
- Spoken familiarity with prevalent language of production team.
Headquartered in Roswell, GA, Vestis® is the second largest provider in the industry with over 300,000 customer locations and approximately 20,000 teammates across North America. Vestis® is a leader in the B2B uniform and workplace supplies category. Vestis® provides clean and safe uniform services and workplace supplies to a broad range of North American customers from Fortune 500 companies to locally owned small businesses across a broad set of end markets. The Company’s comprehensive service offering includes a full-service uniform rental program, cleanroom and other specialty garment processing, floor mats, towels, linens, managed restroom services, first aid supplies and more.
Vestis® is an equal-opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, relation, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
Vestis Commitment to Equal Opportunity Employment
If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, you will find the contact information below to request the appropriate accommodation.
Reasonable Accommodations and the Online Application Process
Consistent with Vestis and Canadian Linen’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who need assistance in applying electronically for a position with Vestis or Canadian Linen, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. To request a reasonable accommodation for this purpose, please call 1-833-901-8823 or email us at
[email protected].
Please note that this phone number is to be used solely to request an accommodation with respect to the online application process. Calls for any other reason will not be returned. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.
Thank you for your interest in an employment opportunity with Vestis, Canadian Linen and Québec Linge.
