Environmental Technician III

Orlando Health is hiring an Environmental Technician III in Lutz, FL. This full-time role involves maintaining a clean and safe environment in a healthcare setting, including waste transport and cleaning tasks. The technician interacts with patients and staff, operates cleaning equipment, and ensures compliance with health standards. A high school diploma and three years of experience are preferred, along with certification as a Healthcare Environmental Services Technician.
Position Summary

Location: Lutz Free Standing ED
Shift: First/Days - Full-time; 10 hours per day, 4 days per week, every other weekend

The Environmental Services Technician lll isresponsible for executing the daily dutiesrequired to establish and maintain a safe, clean, and healing environment. The EVS Tech III has contact with patients, visitors, and clinical and non-clinical staff. Contact may include physical, psychological, educational, and safety related interactions and is appropriate to the specific demographics of patients served in assigned service areas. The role is responsible for transporting regular waste, soiled linen, weighing and recording clean linen, bio-hazardous waste, recycling waste, maintenance of trash containers, and performing routine manual tasks inside hospital, and operates trash dumpsters,scales, and packages bio-waste for shipping.


Responsibilities

Essential Functions
• Respondsto common inquiries or complaintsfrom customers.
• Transports regular waste, bio-hazardous waste, and recycling waste to the designated collection location and prepares for transport in accordance with Department of Transportation and Department of Health standards.
• Maintains a clean and safe environment around the linen room, dumpster/bio-trailers area, and/or designated areasto leave the area clean and litter-free.
• Emptiestrash containers and cleansthem so they are free from spills and marks.
• Operates outside cleaning equipment, such as, but not limited to, pressure washer, leaf blower, Billy Goat, and cart washing machine.
• Takes a proactive approach to maintaining the identified patient and non-patient areas that need attention to be compliant with all mandated and regulatory agency requirements.
• Maintains work areasin a safe manner by utilizing appropriate safety systemsto protect patients, customers, and team members.
• To achieve a Superior Facility Image, cleans and disinfects patient rooms, and ancillary areas, to include, but not limited to, bathrooms, public areas, corridors, medication storage rooms, as directed, and any other areasthat may require attention using designated and appropriate chemicals and cleaning procedures.
• Maintains equipment in a clean and functional condition. Keeps work areas orderly, clean, and safe.
• Worksindependently to complete tasks as assigned.
• Responds to common inquiries from units/departments for linen requests.
• Delivers clean linen to user areas on established and changing par levels.
• Uses handheld computer (if applicable) or manualsystem to credit and debit clean linen to user areas.
• Recordstelephone requestsfor linen on the Telephone Log. Picks up soiled linen from user areas and delivers to the holding area
for laundry pick up.
• Weighs and records clean and reject linen when delivered and soiled linen at pick up.
• Recordsthe laundry truck lock tag number to Weight Log for both clean and soiled linen.
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA, and other federal,
state, and local standards.
• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.


Qualifications

Education/Training
High School Diploma or GED preferred.

Licensure/Certification
Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician (CHEST) preferred.
Experience
Three (3) years of experience in healthcare support services, EVS, hospitality, or a related field