Utility Worker
- Employer
- The Washington Post
- Location
- Springfield, VA
- Posted
- Feb 11, 2022
- Closes
- Feb 24, 2022
- Ref
- JR-90272701
- Industry
- Media / Journalism / Advertising
- Career Level
- Experienced (Non-Manager)
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Description
Tasks performed:
The Post strives to provide its readers with high-quality, trustworthy news and information while constantly innovating. That mission is best served by a diverse, multi-generational workforce with varied life experiences and perspectives. All cultures and backgrounds are welcomed.
The innovation doesn't end in the Newsroom - dozens of teams power The Washington Post. We are now hiring the next innovator - how will you Impact Tomorrow?
#washpostlife
Tasks performed:
- Place wastepaper in trash cart
- Transport trash cart to compactor; dump trash cart in to compactor
- Operate compactor
- Some workers load skids of paper into trailers utilizing a forklift
- Sweep pressroom and reel room floors
- Sweep decks as needed
- Scrub and mop pressroom and reel room floors
- Dump and scrape 3.5 gallon buckets; place in bucket washer
- Wash presses and walls to height within reach on a daily basis
- Clean railings as needed
- Clean around quiet room as needed
- Pick up rags from rag cans and floors of the pressroom, reel room, quiet room, machine shop, locker room and decks. Place in drums and transport to loading dock, utilizing a hand truck. Task performed twice per day.
- Fill buckets with blanket wash and place on cart for each press (occasionally)
- With assistance of co-worker, place 55 gallon drum of cleaning solvent on dolly, as needed
- Use Putty knife to scrape the floor of the press unit arch; mop floor. Task performed once every two weeks
- Operate the automated guided vehicle (AGV) to supply newsprint to presses during production runs
- If press is not supplied with paper by the AGV, pushing to dollies weighing up to one ton (with assistance) is required
- Physically moving partial rolls of newsprint which are on the floor
- Removing cores (five to 25 pounds from press)
- Handling bundles of newsprint (50 to 90 pounds)
The Post strives to provide its readers with high-quality, trustworthy news and information while constantly innovating. That mission is best served by a diverse, multi-generational workforce with varied life experiences and perspectives. All cultures and backgrounds are welcomed.
The innovation doesn't end in the Newsroom - dozens of teams power The Washington Post. We are now hiring the next innovator - how will you Impact Tomorrow?
#washpostlife