Environmental Services Floor Technician

Physicians East•Greenville, NC

43d•Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for an energetic employee that has experience in cleaning, maintaining, and restoring floor surfaces. Supervision Received: Reports to Environmental Services Supervisor, Team lead, and Facilities Services Manager Supervision Exercised: None Typical Physical Demands: Requires stamina and endurance, prolonged standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and move items up to and over 50 pounds. Use of heavy floor equipment. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Typical Working Conditions: This job operates in a professional medical office environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent is preferred.
Experience in floor care required. Knowledge of how to strip, refinish and burnish floors with minimal to no assistance.
Previous housekeeping/cleaning experience in a healthcare setting and knowledge of applicable OSHA practices and Infection Control procedures for healthcare is strongly preferred.
Individual must be able to work independently and schedule cleaning activities to meet the needs of patients, and staff/physicians.
Ability to follow oral and written instructions.
Must display a high level of confidentiality, integrity, and initiative.
Must be able to work well under stress, tight deadlines, and fast-paced environment.
Must possess exceptional organizational and critical thinking skills.
Must be able to read and understand Standard English and be able to work with standard cleaning chemicals.
Must possess exceptional interpersonal communication skills and can create a favorable impression for the organization to all staff, physicians, patients, and the public.

Nice To Haves

Previous housekeeping/cleaning experience in a healthcare setting and knowledge of applicable OSHA practices and Infection Control procedures for healthcare is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Maintenance of all floor areas, top scrubbing, refinishing floor areas in sustaining high standards of cleanliness, and sanitation
Spot removal from the carpets, furniture, uses bonnet and/or extraction methods when carpet cleaning, assist with trash pickup
Operates auto scrubbers, burnishers, scrubbers, wet- pickup vacuum.
Cleaning offices, hallways, common areas and other areas, including dusting, mopping, vacuuming, when facility needs require.
Moving furniture before and after floor maintenance projects
Exact measurement of floor chemicals. The use and operation of chemical dispensing units
Labeling chemical correctly
Cleaning, maintaining, and storing equipment and PPE proficiently
Keeping inventory of floor areas, and scheduling cleaning and maintenance duties
Reporting maintenance issues to supervisor
Follows practice's policies and procedures