Housekeeping Aid - Environmental Services Technician

Veterans Health Administration • Lexington, KY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Housekeeping Aid - Environmental Services Technician performs manual and powered cleaning tasks in the assigned facility. Work includes cleaning rooms, areas, furniture, equipment, and architectural features such as floors, walls, baseboards, windows, metal fixtures, and ceilings. The technician uses a variety of powered cleaning equipment and cleaning chemicals in accordance with product label directions to help ensure the safety of personnel and property.

The role also includes making beds and changing and collecting linens; handling general, regulated medical, chemotherapeutic, and radioactive waste; delivering clean linen and supplies as needed; replenishing consumable supplies; and handling sharps in clinics and patient rooms, including replacing full sharps containers with empty ones as needed. The position has multiple shifts, including days, nights, weekends, and holidays; shift availability is discussed during interviews.

The work requires continuous walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, pulling, and pushing. Heavy powered cleaning equipment weighing over 50 pounds is used occasionally. Duties require dexterity, hand, foot, and eye coordination, concentration, and visual acuity to identify dirt, dust, and debris.

Requirements

• Demonstrate training or experience of sufficient scope and quality to perform the work; no specific length of training or experience is required.
• Provide detailed resume descriptions supporting the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties.
• Meet the position's screen-out element and applicable OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards.
• Meet federal employment conditions, including U.S. citizenship (with the stated exception), suitability for federal employment, and Selective Service registration when applicable.
• Selected applicants must complete required onboarding and pre-employment requirements, including drug testing for applicants tentatively selected for testing-designated positions.
• Serve a one-year probationary period.
• Participate in the VA seasonal influenza program by receiving annual vaccination or obtaining an allowed medical or religious exemption; masking is required when an exemption is granted.

Responsibilities

• Perform manual cleaning tasks such as sweeping, dust mopping, mopping, scrubbing, polishing, dusting, sanitizing, decontaminating, and disinfecting.
• Use powered cleaning equipment to clean rooms, areas, furniture, equipment, and architectural features.
• Use cleaning chemicals according to label directions to protect personnel and property.
• Make beds, change linens, and collect soiled linens.
• Remove, transport, repackage, dispose of, and store general waste, regulated medical waste, chemotherapeutic waste, and radioactive waste.
• Deliver clean linen and supplies as needed.
• Check and replenish consumable supplies, including soap, hand towels, toilet tissue, bottled water, and latex gloves.
• Remove, transport, repackage, dispose of, and store sharps in clinics and patient rooms; replace filled sharps containers with empty ones as needed.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package; 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