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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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Open in Job ExplorerWhat 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.
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Occupation group
laundry worker (8157.1)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/3d924c0d-ffee-4f11-adc7-c2bfb76fcf73 |
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| ESCO code | 8157.1.1 |
| ISCO group | 8157 |
| Concept type | Occupation |