Housekeeping Aid

Department of Veterans Affairs•Asheville, NC

56d•Onsite

About The Position

This vacancy is for hiring of multiple Environmental Service Technicians to work within Environmental Management Services within the VA Western North Carolina Health Care System, Charles George VA Medical Center in Asheville, NC. The primary duties and responsibilities of the Environmental Services Technician includes the following: The Environmental Services Technician who maintain VA facilities for Veterans and their families are essential to the patient care experience at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). A VA healthcare career as an Environmental Services Technician means working alongside other Veterans, who make up 85 percent of the Environmental Management Services staff. As an Environmental Services Technician, you will perform a full range of light and heavy cleaning duties and routine housekeeping duties. Veterans rely on the skills of these professionals to keep patient areas clean and safe by addressing spills quickly, discarding trash, installing light bulbs in halls and rooms, and vacuuming and polishing floors. Duties include cleaning wards, patient rooms, storerooms, offices, corridors, restrooms, shower rooms, and other are. As an Environmental Services Technician, sweeps, mops, scrubs (machine) floors, vacuums carpets and upholstered furniture, empties waste baskets, cleans light globes and Venetian blinds, washes walls, windows and ceilings by climbing small ladders, refills toilet tissue and towel dispensers and move furniture. Environmental Services Technicians carry out assignments with minimal supervision. Work Schedule: This vacancy announcement will make available multiple shift options so flexibility when applying to this announcement will be essential. Position Description Title/PD#: Housekeeping Aid/PD99909S