Environmental Svc Lead Zilber Family Hospice

American Addiction Centers•Milwaukee, WI

7d•$21 - $31•Onsite

About The Position

This role acts as a resource to employees and students, providing training, orientation, and day-to-day work direction. The Environmental Services Lead is responsible for assigning, monitoring, and reviewing work progress and accuracy, managing productivity, maintaining appropriate staffing levels, and directing efforts while offering guidance on complex issues. This position also assists with human resource responsibilities, including interviewing and selecting new employees, staff development, resolving employee concerns, and fostering employee morale. The Lead assists in interpreting department policies and procedures and advises staff on procedural changes. Key duties include cleaning furniture, carpets, floors, and various surfaces in patient care areas, public spaces, offices, and restrooms using power equipment. The role involves refinishing floors, operating mechanical and electrical cleaning equipment, identifying and reporting safety hazards and equipment needing repair, and maintaining cleaning equipment and supply areas. The Lead also handles emergency spill cleanup, ensures proper use and labeling of chemicals, sets up rooms for meetings, and delivers audio-visual equipment. Responsibilities extend to performing terminal and project cleaning in surgical areas, cleaning environmental surfaces, dusting and mopping floors, and managing the disposal of recyclables, trash, and medical waste, including hazardous trash, while maintaining documentation. The role includes sorting, stocking, and preparing soiled linen for transportation, inventorying linens and supplies, ordering replacements, and filling/cleaning supply dispensers. Additionally, the Lead replaces cubicle drapes and window coverings, cleans and prepares dismissal/transfer units and patient care equipment, and distributes non-medical supplies. Reporting any mechanical failures or unsafe conditions to the supervisor is also a key responsibility.

Requirements

Typically requires 3 years of experience in environmental services.
Ability to operate various types of cleaning equipment, including machine scrubbers, carpet cleaners, waste compactors, balers, etc.
Ability to follow and understand oral and written instructions and communicate with others.
Ability to work alone and to understand the physical arrangements of the facilities.
Performs tasks without disrupting operations of the doctors, nurses, patients, public, and other staff.
Ability to set priorities, be aware of and follow department policies and procedures in all situations.
Basic computer skills.
Excellent customer service skills.
Must be able to: lift up to 50 lbs. from floor to a maximum 5 ft. lift and carry up to 30 lbs. at waist height a reasonable distance.
Must be able to: push/pull up to 50 lbs with the assistance of other staff and/or devices.
Must be able to bend, stoop, kneel, climb stairs, reach above shoulders and crawl to complete tasks.
Must also be able to shovel and spread salt or sand on snow, so will be exposed to outside temperatures and weather conditions as necessary.
Must have ability to walk or stand the majority of the shift.
Must have ability to wear protective clothing as will have exposure to strong germicidal solutions, cleaning chemicals, temperature changes, soiled linen, infectious waste (blood and body fluids).
Requires that incumbent be familiar with policies on handling infectious and hazardous waste.
Must have ability to safely operate power-cleaning equipment such as machine scrubbers or carpet cleaners as well as non-power cleaning equipment and ladders telescoping up to 20 feet.
Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job, including telephones, zone phones, and pagers.

Responsibilities

Acts as a resource to employees and students, which includes training/orienting and providing day-to-day work direction.
Assigns, monitors, and reviews progress and accuracy of work, monitors productivity, maintains appropriate staffing levels, directs efforts and provides guidance on more complex issues.
Assists with human resource responsibilities, which may include interviewing and selection of new employees, staff development, resolution of employee concerns, and employee morale.
Assists in interpreting department policies and procedures, and advises and updates staff on procedural changes.
Cleans furniture and carpets in rooms, hallways, stairs, and offices using power equipment.
Cleans and maintains floor surfaces with dry and wet mops.
Refinishes floors, including machine scrubbing and/or stripping floors and applies floor finish.
Operates various types of cleaning equipment, both mechanical and electrical.
Notifies appropriate person of safety hazards and of equipment needing repair.
Cleans equipment, cart, and service closet daily.
Assists in cleaning emergency spills as requested.
Uses chemicals, cleaning products and equipment for their intended purpose to maintain a safe, cost-effective environment.
Ensures all cleaning supplies are labeled and references Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) as necessary.
Sets up rooms for meetings and delivers audio visual equipment to the rooms.
Cleans patient care areas, public/private restrooms, conference rooms, lobbies, offices, elevators, and stairwells.
Performs scheduled terminal and project cleaning in surgical areas.
Cleans all environmental surfaces including ceilings and vents, walls, doors, furniture, beds, bathroom fixtures, and windows.
Dusts and mops floors in patient and exam rooms, corridors, stairwells, restrooms, and other areas of the facility.
Gathers and disposes recyclables, trash, and medical waste.
Collects hazardous trash following established infection control guidelines.
Maintains documentation for disposal of waste streams.
Sorts, stocks and delivers linens.
Gathers and prepares soiled linen for transportation.
Inventories linens, cleaning supplies and paper supplies and orders additional in a timely and cost effective manner.
Fills and cleans supply dispensers.
Replaces cubicle drapes and window coverings.
Cleans and prepares dismissal and transfer units and certain equipment used in the care of patients and distributes non-medical supplies to specific areas.
Reports any mechanical failures or unsafe conditions to the supervisor.

Benefits

Comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs
Competitive compensation
Generous retirement offerings
Programs that invest in your career development
Paid Time Off programs
Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
Educational Assistance Program