Laundry Supervisor

This position performs as a Laundry Supervisor within the Environmental Management Service (EMS). He/she works at Martinez, California location of the VA Northern California Health Care System (VA NCHCS) and is responsible for performing all textile duties and tasks assigned to provide clean and disinfected linens to all areas within the healthcare system.

Major duties
Duties will include but not be limited to: Incumbent supervises the uniform management program, laundry processing, and shares responsibility of managing the central linen distribution room(s). This includes work assignments and supervision for approximately 4 laundry workers and numerous Compensated Work Therapy (CWT) workers. Responsible for par levels of the facilities within Northern California Health Care System he/she oversees. Incumbent is responsible for all inventories to include quarters, semiannual, and annual inventories. Incumbent follows guidelines set by the Association for Laundry Management on procedures set by the industry. Performs minor adjustments to equipment and monitors preventive maintenance of equipment. Troubleshoots problems throughout the laundry section. Incumbent is responsible for maintaining the linen room and any pre-designated linen rooms. Incumbent must accurately and efficiently load and unload linen carts, utilizing linen that has been in storage the longest. Incumbent must exercise caution when moving 1000-pound carts around corners, through narrow hallways and congested patient areas, up and down ramps, constantly aware of possible hazards to patients, staff and visitors. Incumbent adjusts deliveries to meet the changing needs of the facility. Incumbent must utilize proper technique in distributing and picking up linen to prevent cross contamination. Incumbent must keep accurate records of uniforms, linen, pillows and surgical linen that is salvaged, in storage and in circulation. Incumbent receives, stores, inventories and distributes linen to the facility daily. Incumbent also controls and supplies all surgical linen required at the facility. Incumbent issues, marks, repairs and salvages surgical linen, drapes, pillows, employee uniforms, cubical and shower curtains. Incumbent sorts uniform apparel, using assigned numbers to document, and forwards the uniforms to the consolidated laundry facility for laundering; Places in Scrub-Ex machine, according to assigned number, when returned from the consolidated laundry facility. Incumbent is responsible for removing and hanging cubicle curtains and window curtain, this requires the ability to move safely on a ladder. Work Schedule: To be determined upon hiring, schedule varies, may work weekends and holidays. Position Description Title/PD#: Laundry Supervisor/PD00685O

Qualifications
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/26/2026. EXPERIENCE: A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstrates you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards. SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated. The potential eligibles are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements: Customer Service Follow Directions Instruct Operation of Equipment/Machinery Technical Competence Technical Practices 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; religions; 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. 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.

How to apply
All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 10/26/2026 to receive consideration. To preview the questionnaire, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13094289. To begin, click Apply Online to create a USA JOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupational questionnaire. Click Submit My Answers to submit your application package. NOTE: It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and appropriate documentation is submitted prior to the closing date. During the application process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions. Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to update the resumes in your profile before applying for a job. Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. If initial application submission is updated and resubmitted with a new resume, only the most current resume will be reviewed for consideration. Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Helpful Hints for Creating a Two-Page Resume: Prioritize most relevant and recent experience Use concise, results focused language Align language from the job announcement Focus on demonstrating skills and competencies Remove outdated or unrelated experience Use the USAJOBS resume builder Additional guidance on this new requirement and resume building tools can be found at: https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents/resume/page-limit https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/merit-hiring-plan-resources/applicant-guidance-on-the-two-page-resume-limit/ Special Employment Consideration: VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR 213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiatric disabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more. Contact the Agency Contact for information on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinator. The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal/VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified, you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified (have a final rating of 85 or more) for this vacancy. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.