Environmental Services Technician

UPMC • Steubenville, OH

2h

About The Position

The Environmental Services Technician helps create a safe, clean, and welcoming environment for patients, visitors, and staff. The role contributes to the patient care experience by maintaining hygienic, safe, and aesthetically pleasing spaces while supporting infection prevention, timely room turnover, and patient throughput. The technician works alongside clinical and non-clinical staff and interacts with patients and visitors. Opportunities are available across all shifts to support 24/7 coverage.

Requirements

• Commitment to safety, cleanliness, infection prevention, and quality.
• Ability to work responsibly and collaboratively in a healthcare environment.
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Respect for patient privacy and focus on creating a positive patient experience.
• Ability to safely handle cleaning chemicals, supplies, tools, equipment, and multiple waste streams.
• Ability to explain orally or in writing the differences between levels of disinfection and perform intermediate-level disinfection where required.
• Ability to operate necessary equipment and machines.
• Effective use of computers and mobile devices.
• Communicates openly and candidly, orally or in writing, and respectfully listens to others' viewpoints and ideas.
• Ability to work without close supervision.

Nice To Haves

• High school diploma or GED.
• Previous healthcare experience.

Responsibilities

• Clean and disinfect occupied rooms and discharge or transfer areas, patient-care equipment, and common spaces.
• Apply healthcare cleaning, disinfection, and infection-prevention principles in every assignment.
• Use chemicals, supplies, tools, and equipment safely, and maintain cleaning carts according to standard work expectations.
• Support timely room turnover and an efficient, positive patient experience.
• Follow organizational safety, risk management, infection control, hand hygiene, isolation precaution, and personal protective equipment practices.
• Remove and transport waste to the appropriate disposal area, following procedures for regulated medical, recyclable, solid, and hazardous waste.

What This Job Offers

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