Supervisor, Environmental Services

Kaiser Permanente • Oakland, CA

70d

About The Position

Recommends new products by leveraging up-to-date knowledge of the latest environmental trends and regulatory requirements. Ensures team maintains inventory supplies with established par levels and participates on committees to align departmental activities. Ensures documentation, staff training, and labor relations activities comply with governing agencies regulations and standards. Manages the daily activities of staff and provides guidance, including recommending opportunities to decrease cost and increase service levels, supporting unit-based teams, and ensuring work techniques, quality assurance standards, and department policies and procedures are adhered to. Ensures facilities are maintained in a safe, clean, and operationally effective condition by monitoring operational programs, ensuring inspections are completed on a regular basis, and conducting quality assessments. Supports resource planning and forecasting by hiring and scheduling employees, facilitating training and development, and tracking supplies used on a daily basis. Supports and encourages workplace safety by coaching team members to utilize processes and tools to eliminate injuries, providing resources for safety investigations, and compiling data for safety reports.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Environmental Health, Hospitality, or related field AND minimum five (5) years of experience in Health Care, Hospitality, Environmental Services, or a directly related field OR Minimum eight (8) years of experience in Health Care, Hospitality, Environmental Services, or a directly related field.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of Compliance Management
• Execution excellence
• Accountability
• Adaptability
• Cost Optimization
• Facilities Management/Operations
• Written Communication
• Safety and Environmental Health Management
• Employee Training
• Interpersonal Skills
• Delegation
• Mentoring and Coaching
• Computer Literacy
• Compliance
• Medical Sanitation and Infection Control

Responsibilities

• Recommends developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships.
• Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides team members with feedback; and mentors and coaches to drive performance improvement.
• Pursues professional growth; provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations.
• Implements, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices and processes.
• Fosters open dialogue, supports, mentors, engages, and motivates team members on collaboration.
• Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope.
• Supervises and coordinates daily activities of designated work team or unit by monitoring the execution and completion of tactical action items and work assignments; ensures all policies and procedures are followed.
• Aligns team efforts and standards, and measures progress in achieving results; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; resolves escalated issues as appropriate.
• Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates, obtains and distributes resources.
• Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and recommends improvement opportunities; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.
• Ensures clean and sanitary facilities by monitoring operational programs assuring that buildings are maintained in a safe, clean and operationally effective condition.
• Leads the daily operations of their team; ensuring general and formal inspections are scheduled, assigned to the correct staff, and completed on a regular basis.
• Maintains environmental services equipment and supplies by evaluating and recommending new products in accordance with the latest environmental trends, products, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensures legal and regulatory compliance by ensuring compliance with EVS departmental policies/procedures relative to various governing agency regulations and standards.
• Ensures quality assurance and improves departmental processes by regulating the daily activities of staff and providing necessary guidance and support.
• Supports resource planning and forecasting by recruiting, hiring, and scheduling employees to ensure accurate staffing levels at each facility.
• Supports workplace safety by coaching team members to utilize processes and tools to eliminate injuries and increase workplace safety.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree