Environmental Services Technician

University of Utah Health

Posted 3 months ago

Full Time

Salt Lake City, Utah

In Person

Smart Summary

Responsibilities

Performs various cleaning and sanitation tasks to maintain a safe and sterile environment for patients, staff, and visitors. Responsibilities include floor care, waste removal, and the operation of industrial cleaning equipment.

Qualifications

You have the ability to perform cleaning tasks to ensure a safe and clean environment for patients, visitors, and staff. You are capable of operating and maintaining various cleaning equipment and demonstrating effective communication skills. This entry-level position requires the ability to handle cleaning supplies and hazardous waste appropriately.

Must Have Skills for ATS

Carpet shampooing equipment

Upholstery shampooing equipment

Electric floor machines

Industrial vacuums

Snow blowers

Job Description

Overview

As a patient-focused organization, University of Utah Health exists to enhance the health and well-being of people through patient care, research and education. Success in this mission requires a culture of collaboration, excellence, leadership, and respect. University of Utah Health seeks staff that are committed to the values of compassion, collaboration, innovation, responsibility, integrity, quality and trust that are integral to our mission. EO/AA

This position performs various cleaning tasks to provide all staff, visitors and patients a safe and clean environment. The incumbent maintains high standards of cleanliness, sanitation, and freedom from hazards and infections. This position has the authority to experience a certain degree of autonomy in simply "keeping up" an assigned area under their jurisdiction, making independent judgments on needed activities and projects. Incumbents may function as a team leader on specific assignments or activities involving personnel of the same job classification. Challenges encountered in this position include working around patients, visitors, and staff without causing any disruptions, working with patient care units and other departments with specialized cleaning needs and hazards, and determining if chemical spills are medical, infectious, or a routine spill and then the appropriate procedure to follow in disposing of the spill. This position is not responsible for providing patient care.

Corporate Overview: The University of Utah is a Level 1 Trauma Center and is nationally ranked and recognized for our academic research, quality standards and overall patient experience. Our five hospitals and eleven clinics provide excellence in our comprehensive services, medical advancement, and overall patient outcomes.

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To be considered for this role, applicants must:

  • Upload their most recent updated resume

  • Include complete work history and relevant experience

  • Ensure their experience clearly reflects the required qualifications

  • Be able to meet the schedule, hours, and work location listed for this position

Why join University of Utah Health?

  • Competitive pay

  • Healthcare benefits starting on day one

  • 401(k) retirement plan

  • A work environment that values dedication, learning, and work-life balance

    Benefits Overview: https://employment.utah.edu/benefits/

    Parking Information: https://commuterservices.utah.edu/

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What Happens Next

Your application will be under review. If selected to move forward, your resume may be shared with hiring managers for further consideration. A text or email is sent to you once your resume has been shared with the hiring manager for review. Please continue to check your email for updates from HR regarding your application status. 

  • Please be prepared to provide five professional references if selected for hire.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

  • Sweeps, cleans, mops, scrubs, and dusts floors.
  • Cleans toilets, basins, showers, bathtubs, patient beds, and scrubs walls.
  • Dusts, cleans and vacuums furniture, fixtures doors and related furnishings by using appropriate cleaning supplies.
  • Operates and maintains electric floor machines, snow blowers, industrial vacuums, carpet shampooing equipment, and upholstery shampooing equipment.
  • Cleans, refinishes, and maintains a variety of floor coverings.
  • Cleans patient rooms, beds, waiting areas, and examination tables.
  • Labels and removes infectious waste bags and containers.
  • Transports custodial supplies and equipment to and from storage and work areas.
  • Replaces sharps containers, transports trash and refuse, removes empty boxes and organizes closets.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

  • Ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined above.
  • Demonstrated human relations and effective communication skills.
  • Ability to use basic electronic devices in the course of daily work.

Qualifications

Required

  • Entry level position.
  • Dependent upon assigned department, a valid Utah driver's license may be required.

Qualifications (Preferred)

Preferred

  • Six (6) months of related experience.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

Employee must be able to meet the following requirements with or without an accommodation.

  • This position involves intermediate working conditions in a healthcare setting that may exert up to 50 pounds and may consistently require light work involving lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, or otherwise moving objects involving patient care or medical equipment. This position may be required to use a 6 foot step ladder. This position may stand for sustained periods of time and/or walk for long distances moving from one work site to another. This position may be exposed to chemical hazards. 
  • We are University of Utah Health. healthcare.utah.edu

Physical Requirements

Carrying, Climbing, Color Determination, Crawling, Far Vision, Lifting, Listening, Manual Dexterity, Near Vision, Non Indicated, Pulling and/or Pushing, Reaching, Sitting, Speaking, Standing, Stooping and Crouching, Tasting or Smelling, Walking

University of Utah Health

University of Utah Health is the Intermountain West’s only academic health care system, combining excellence in patient care, the latest in medical research, and teaching to provide leading-edge medicine in a caring and personal setting. The system provides care for Utahns and residents of five surrounding states in a referral area encompassing more than 10 percent of the continental United States. Whether it’s for routine care or highly specialized treatment in orthopedics, stroke, ophthalmology, cancer, radiology, fertility, cardiology, genetic-related diseases, organ transplant, or many other areas of medicine, University of Utah Health offers the latest technology and advancements, including some services available nowhere else in the region. As part of that system, University of Utah Health Hospitals and Clinics rely on more than 1,600 board-certified physicians who staff five University hospitals (University Hospital, Huntsman Cancer Hospital, Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital, University Orthopaedic Center, and the University Neuropsychiatric Institute); 12 community clinics; and several specialty centers including the John A. Moran Eye Center, Kathryn F. Kirk Center for Comprehensive Cancer Care and Women's Cancers, the Cardiovascular Center, the Clinical Neurosciences Center, and the Utah Diabetes Center. University of Utah Health is consistently ranked among US News & World Report’s Best Hospitals, has ranked in the nation’s top 10 for quality health care among leading academic medical centers by Vizient Inc., Its academic partners at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Colleges of Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and Health are internationally regarded research and teaching institutions.
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