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Overview
The role is part of laundry or dry-cleaning operations and includes reading care labels, sorting textiles, pressing items and keeping ironing and drying areas clean.
In job descriptions, look for garment pressing, steamers, dry-cleaning pressing machines, fabric sorting, linen handling, care labels, quality checks and customer orders.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Laundry ironers work after washing or dry cleaning, when garments and linen need finishing before return to stock or customers. Tasks include sorting items, reading care labels, pressing textiles and keeping ironing equipment ready.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes fabric recognition, linen handling, ironing textiles, operating pressing machines, identifying cloth items and checking garment quality. Some roles also involve customer orders or simple sales service.
Salary context
Pay is affected by production volume, machine responsibility, fabric variety, customer-contact duties, quality inspection, shift pattern and whether the role includes dry-cleaning pressing equipment.
Career paths
Career paths can move toward senior laundry worker, dry-cleaning presser, quality checker, shift lead, customer-order coordinator or training roles for fabric handling and machine setup.
Good to know
Check whether adverts name presses, steamers, irons, care labels, fabric types, linen stock, dry-cleaning machines, customer orders and expected pace through the finishing area.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Washing and cleaning of textile and fur products
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include laundry worker and laundry workers supervisor.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 2
Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials
51-6021.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETLaundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers
51-6011.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
96.1Washing and cleaning of textile and fur products
Alternative labels
Occupation group
laundry worker (8157.1)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/3d924c0d-ffee-4f11-adc7-c2bfb76fcf73 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 8157.1.1 |
| ISCO group | 8157 |
| Concept type | Occupation |