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Environmental Services Technician
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 86 days ago
About the Role
This vacancy is for hiring of multiple Environmental Service Technicians to work within Environmental Management Services within the VA at the Salem VA Medical Center.
What You'll Do
- →The primary duties and responsibilities of the Housekeeping Aid includes the following: The housekeeping aids 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 a housekeeping aide means working alongside other Veterans, who make up 85 percent of the housekeeping staff.
- →As a Housekeeping Aid, 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 areas.
- →Housekeeping Aids sweep, mop, scrub (machine) floors, vacuum carpets and upholstered furniture, empty waste baskets, clean light globes and Venetian blinds, wash walls, windows and ceilings by climbing small ladders, refill toilet tissue and towel dispensers and move furniture.
- →Housekeeping Aids carry out assignments with minimal supervision.
- →Work Schedule: 1st shift: 6:45AM - 3:30PM 2nd shift: 3:15PM - 12:00AM 3rd shift: 11:00PM - 7:30AM Position Description Title/PD#: Environmental Services Technician/99909s 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.
- →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.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation Selective Services Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓Physical Examination is Required for this position.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 8e9a6094-3ce8-4881-9508-ffa2ef4f12c1
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