Environmental Service Technician

Veterans Health Administration • Salt Lake City, UT

10d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is located within the Environmental Management Service of the Salt Lake City VAMC and reports directly to the Housekeeping Supervisor or designee. The Environmental Service Technician performs janitorial, custodial, and routine housekeeping services to keep patient and facility areas clean and safe. The work includes sanitizing and disinfecting, waste removal, cleaning blinds, replacing curtains, washing windows and walls, dusting and polishing fixtures, discharge cleaning, sweeping, scrubbing and extracting floors, polishing floors, and applying floor finishes. Assignments are carried out with minimal supervision.

The role serves wards, patient rooms, storerooms, offices, corridors, restrooms, shower rooms, and other areas. Work may involve responding to spills, discarding trash, installing light bulbs, cleaning light globes, refilling toilet tissue and towel dispensers, and moving furniture. The schedule includes first shift (7:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.), second shift (3:00 p.m.–11:30 p.m.), and third shift (11:00 p.m.–7:30 a.m.).

The position requires continuous walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, pulling, and pushing. It occasionally requires using heavy powered cleaning equipment weighing over 50 pounds. Duties also require considerable dexterity, hand, foot, and eye coordination, concentration, and visual acuity to detect dirt, dust, and debris. A pre-employment physical is required.

Requirements

• Evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality to demonstrate the ability to perform the work; no specific length of training or experience is required.
• Must meet the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards and pass the position's screen-out element.
• U.S. citizenship is required, except that non-citizens may be appointed when recruitment of qualified citizens is not possible under VA policy.
• Must be suitable for federal employment as determined by a background investigation.
• Applicants tentatively selected for a testing-designated position must undergo urinalysis for illegal drug use; refusal results in denial of employment.
• Selective Service registration is required for males born after December 31, 1959.
• Must complete the online onboarding process and provide acceptable identification and all required application documents.
• Must pass a pre-employment physical.
• Must serve a one-year probationary period and receive written certification for continued employment after that period.
• VA Health Care Personnel must receive annual seasonal influenza vaccination or obtain a medical or religious exemption; employees with an exemption must wear a face mask.
• Physical ability to continuously walk, stand, stoop, kneel, pull, and push; occasionally use heavy powered cleaning equipment weighing over 50 pounds; and meet the required dexterity, coordination, concentration, and visual acuity demands.

Responsibilities

• Perform janitorial, custodial, and routine housekeeping duties.
• Sanitize and disinfect areas and perform discharge cleaning.
• Remove waste and respond to spills; discard trash.
• Clean wards, patient rooms, storerooms, offices, corridors, restrooms, shower rooms, and other areas.
• Sweep, mop, machine-scrub, extract, polish, and apply finishes to floors.
• Vacuum carpets and upholstered furniture.
• Clean blinds and light globes; wash walls, windows, and ceilings, including by climbing small ladders.
• Replace curtains, dust and polish fixtures, and move furniture.
• Refill toilet tissue and towel dispensers.
• Install light bulbs in halls and rooms.
• Carry out assignments with minimal supervision.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package is available to eligible employees; specific benefits depend on position type and should be confirmed with the hiring agency.
• VA may approve credit for job-related non-federal experience or active-duty uniformed military service when determining annual leave accrual, if requested and approved before appointment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed