HOW TO GET THERE
Typical pathway
A typical Canadian secondary-school pathway is to finish Grade 12 and look for entry-level work at a dry cleaner, laundry, or garment care business. Employers often provide on-the-job training in using washing, drying, and dry-cleaning machines, checking quality, pressing items, and matching tags and invoices. Some workers gain experience through part-time, summer, or other customer-service jobs first. English and basic math help with customer communication and tracking orders. Requirements can vary by employer, province, and the type of work, so some positions may ask for different experience or skills.
THE WORK
What you may do
Legacy duties
- Operate dry cleaning machines to dry-clean dresses, suits, coats, sweaters and other garments, draperies, cushion covers and other articles
- Operate washing machines and dryers to clean and dry garments, sheets, blankets, towels and other articles
- Operate machines to clean and blow-dry fur garments
- Operate machines to dry-clean, dye, spray, re-oil, and re-buff suede and leather garments.
- Check finished garments and other articles to ensure that they are properly dry-cleaned or laundered
- Record damaged or improperly dry-cleaned or laundered garments and other articles
- Use hand-held steam iron to touch up finished garments and other articles
- Assemble and bag finished garments and other articles
- Match invoices with tags on garments or other articles.
SKILLS TO BUILD
Skills used in this Career
Customer ServiceDealing with the PublicPromoting