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 Overview
The Floater in the Production Operations area works as part of a team in an industrial laundry facility.Responsible for the safe, expeditious, and accurate handling of merchandise into and/or out of the laundry facility.
Responsibilities / Essential Functions
May be assigned to any of these production areas:
- Soil – Receives laundry from customer bags, sorts the laundry by the type of item (uniform, linen, mats, and specialty items).
- Washroom – Operates industrial washing machines
- Tunnel – Operates industrial tunnel drying equipment
- Folding – Operates industrial folding equipment, may conduct hand folding.
- May package or hang garments according to customer requirements
- Sort – May utilize scanners to sort, tabulate, and ready garments and products for the customer delivery
- Mender/Sewer – Operates sewing machines to mend garments, repair zippers, replace buttons. May sew emblems onto garments
- Stockroom – Receives new goods, inventory tabulation, readies products for new customers or replacements for current customers
- Visually identifies and segregates merchandise that does not meet specified quality standards. Reports findings to proper person.
- Maintains safe and clean work environment and observes best practices in all production activities.
Performs other duties as assigned or requested by leadership.
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
- Prompt arrival and regular attendance at work
- Ability to develop and maintain a positive working relationship with others
- Ability to understand all required training, written and verbal instructions
- Basic math skills
Experience / Education
- 6 months' work experience, preferred
- High school diploma or GED
Working Conditions
- Work is performed in a warehouse setting and regularly exposed to outside weather conditions, extreme heat and cold conditions as well as dust, water and noise.
- Work is based on a shift schedule and may include weekends.
- Overtime required as needed.
Physical Requirements
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Position involves repetitive motions over the duration of an entire shift.
- Requires the ability to move, lift, carry, push, or pull items weighing up to 25 lbs.
- Requires bending, reaching, pulling, twisting, kneeling, and lifting.
- Requires the use of hands for grasping and other manipulations.
- Requires standing and walking for long periods of time.
Location: Erie, PA
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.
