Environmental Services Technician

Advocate Health•Milwaukee, WI

15d•$20 - $30

About The Position

The Environmental Services Technician cleans and maintains patient-care and other facility areas, including rooms, restrooms, corridors, offices, lobbies, elevators, stairwells, and surgical areas. Work includes cleaning surfaces and floors, using and maintaining cleaning equipment, handling waste and linens, stocking supplies, preparing patient units, and setting up meeting rooms. The role follows infection-control and safety procedures, uses cleaning products appropriately, and reports hazards, unsafe conditions, or equipment failures. The position may involve exposure to chemicals, infectious waste, soiled linens, and outdoor weather conditions.

Requirements

No formal education required.
No experience required.
Ability to operate cleaning equipment, including machine scrubbers, carpet cleaners, waste compactors, and balers.
Ability to follow and understand oral and written instructions and communicate with others.
Ability to work alone and understand the physical arrangements of the facilities.
Ability to perform tasks without disrupting doctors, nurses, patients, visitors, and other staff.
Ability to set priorities and follow department policies and procedures.
Basic computer skills.
Excellent customer service skills.
Ability to lift up to 50 pounds from the floor to a maximum height of five feet and carry up to 30 pounds at waist height a reasonable distance.
Ability to push or pull up to 50 pounds with assistance from staff or devices.
Ability to bend, stoop, kneel, climb stairs, reach above the shoulders, crawl, shovel, and spread salt or sand.
Ability to walk or stand for most of the shift.
Ability to wear protective clothing and handle cleaning chemicals, soiled linens, and infectious or hazardous waste in accordance with applicable policies.
Ability to safely operate power and non-power cleaning equipment and ladders telescoping up to 20 feet.

Responsibilities

Clean furniture and carpets in rooms, hallways, stairs, and offices using power equipment.
Clean and maintain floor surfaces with dry and wet mops; refinish floors by machine scrubbing or stripping and applying floor finish.
Operate, clean, and maintain mechanical and electrical cleaning equipment, carts, and service closets.
Notify the appropriate person of safety hazards and equipment needing repair, and report mechanical failures or unsafe conditions to the supervisor.
Assist with emergency spills as requested.
Use chemicals, cleaning products, and equipment for their intended purposes; ensure supplies are labeled and consult Material Safety Data Sheets as necessary.
Set up rooms for meetings and deliver audio-visual equipment to rooms.
Clean patient-care areas, public and private restrooms, conference rooms, lobbies, offices, elevators, stairwells, and surgical areas.
Perform scheduled terminal and project cleaning in surgical areas.
Clean environmental surfaces, including ceilings, vents, walls, doors, furniture, beds, bathroom fixtures, and windows.
Gather and dispose of recyclables, trash, and medical waste; collect hazardous trash in accordance with infection-control guidelines.
Sort, stock, and deliver linens; prepare soiled linens for transportation; inventory linens and supplies and order additional items as needed.
Fill and clean supply dispensers and replace cubicle drapes and window coverings.
Clean and prepare dismissal and transfer units and certain patient-care equipment.
Distribute non-medical supplies to designated areas.