Environmental Service Technician

Environmental Service Technician

The Environmental Services (EVS) Technicians 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 EVS Technician means working alongside other Veterans, who make up 85 percent of the housekeeping staff. As an EVS 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, but are not limited to:

• Performs floor maintenance and wall washing.
• Cleans doors, doorframes, baseboard corners and edges, and stairwells.
• Periodically utilizes pressure washers and heavy industrial powered and battery-operated equipment for the above task.
• Empties trash and wastebaskets, replaces liners.
• Cleans rest rooms, bathrooms, and shower rooms, ensuring that they are cleaned and meet acceptable standards.
• Replenishes supplies of paper towels, toilet paper, hand sanitizers, and soap in all areas where dispensers are located.
• Defrosts and cleans patient care refrigerators and ice machines in nourishment kitchen areas.
• Cleans stainless steel on storage instrument cabinets and counters, elevators in lobbies, wards, diet-kitchens and nurse utility rooms.
• Cleans and/or replaces needle boxes.

Work Schedule: Full Time: 2:30pm - 11:00pm

Position Description Title/PD#: Environmental Service Technician/PD99909S

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized

Remote: This is not a remote position.

Telework: Not available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Physical Requirements: The position demands continuous walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, pulling, and pushing. The work requires the occasional use of heavy powered cleaning equipment (e.g., wall washers, industrial type buffers) weighing over 50 pounds. The duties necessitate considerable dexterity, hand, foot, and eye coordination, and concentration as well as visual acuity to see dirt, dust and debris. See VA Directive and Handbook 5019, Employee Occupational Health Service

Working Conditions: Work is normally performed indoors with adequate heat, light, and ventilation. Some work may be performed outdoors where there may be exposed to varying degrees of heat and cold as well as inclement weather. PPE may be required in some circumstance as exposure to possible contagious diseases, blood and bloody secretion are inherent to this position. Care is required to avoid serious injuries (i.e. broken bones) when working on ladders, or when using 30-100-pound power equipment or handling hazardous materials.