EVS Area Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Environmental Services (EVS) Area Manager

Hartford Connecticut Area

Empowered Staffing is partnered with a National Provider to Healthcare facilities of Environmental Services and we are seeking an experienced Environmental Services Area Manager to support multiple locations across Connecticut. They are looking for a hands-on EVS leader to oversee day-to-day housekeeping, laundry, and floor care operations, develop frontline teams, maintain strong relationships with facility leadership, and ensure quality, safety, sanitation, staffing, and budget standards are consistently met across assigned locations. The company is continuing to grow and offers strong opportunities for advancement for leaders looking to grow with the organization.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Support Environmental Services operations across multiple locations within an assigned geographic area.
• Lead, supervise, train, and develop housekeeping, laundry, and floor care employees.
• Manage staffing levels, scheduling, employee performance, and day-to-day team needs.
• Conduct regular facility walkthroughs, daily audits, and quality inspections to ensure assignments and projects are completed properly.
• Maintain strong relationships with facility administrators, residents, and other leadership while addressing service needs and concerns.
• Assist with budgeting, cost control, inventory, supply purchasing, and other operating expenses.
• Manage housekeeping and laundry supplies, chemicals, equipment, and inventory levels.
• Ensure sanitation, infection control, safety, PPE, SDS, and regulatory standards are consistently maintained.
• Cross-train employees and develop team members to support multiple positions and responsibilities.
• Maintain required operational, personnel, compliance, income/expense, and inventory records.
• Support housekeeping, floor care, and laundry functions directly when operational needs require additional assistance.
• Travel between assigned facilities based on operational needs.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 2+ years of Environmental Services or housekeeping experience in a supervisory or management role within a healthcare environment preferred.
• Experience leading housekeeping, laundry, and/or floor care teams.
• Strong knowledge of housekeeping, laundry, floor care, sanitation, safety, infection control, PPE, and SDS procedures.
• Experience with staffing, scheduling, training, employee performance, and quality inspections.
• Experience with budgeting, cost control, inventory, supplies, and operational expenses.
• Strong communication, customer service, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a hands-on environment and step in to support frontline operations when needed.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to support multiple locations and competing priorities.
• Ability to travel throughout the assigned area based on operational needs.
• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.