Environmental Services Technician

UPMC; Steubenville (OH); On-site; USD 27,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

UPMC is seeking an Environmental Services Technician to maintain a safe, clean, and welcoming environment for patients, visitors, and staff. You’ll work with clinical and non-clinical teams to support infection prevention, room turnover, and patient throughput across shifts.

Responsibilities include cleaning, disinfection, waste handling, and adherence to safety and PPE practices in a hospital setting. High school diploma or GED preferred, healthcare experience optional but beneficial.

Qualifications

• Commitment to safety, cleanliness, infection prevention, and quality.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a healthcare environment.
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Respect for patient privacy and a focus on positive patient experience.
• Ability to safely handle cleaning chemicals, supplies, tools, equipment, and multiple waste streams.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily occupied-room and discharge/transfer cleaning and disinfection of patient areas, equipment, and common spaces.
• Apply healthcare cleaning, disinfection, and infection-prevention principles in every task.
• Use chemicals, supplies, tools, and equipment safely and maintain cleaning carts per standard work.
• Support timely room turnover and contribute to a positive patient experience.
• Follow safety, infection control, hand hygiene, isolation precautions, and PPE procedures; manage waste disposal per protocol.

Skills

Safety awareness

Team player

Critical thinking

Communication

Infection prevention

Education

High School diploma or GED

Healthcare experience preferred

Job description

Help create a safe, clean, and welcoming environment for every patient.

As an Environmental Services Technician, you will play an essential role in the patient care experience by maintaining a hygienic, safe, and aesthetically pleasing environment. You will work alongside clinical and non-clinical staff and interact with patients and visitors while supporting infection prevention, timely room turnover, and patient throughput.

Opportunities are available across all shifts to support 24/7 coverage.

What You'll Do

• Complete daily occupied-room and discharge/transfer cleaning and disinfection of patient care areas, equipment, and common spaces.
• Apply healthcare cleaning, disinfection, and infection-prevention principles in every assignment.
• Use chemicals, supplies, tools, and equipment safely and maintain cleaning carts according to standard work expectations.
• Support timely room turnover and help create an efficient, positive patient experience.
• Follow organizational safety, risk management, infection control, hand hygiene, isolation precaution, and personal protective equipment practices. Remove and transport waste to the appropriate disposal area, following procedures for regulated medical, recyclable, solid, and hazardous waste.

What You Bring

• A commitment to safety, cleanliness, infection prevention, and quality.
• The ability to work responsibly and collaboratively in a healthcare environment.
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Respect for patient privacy and a focus on creating a positive patient experience.
• The ability to safely handle cleaning chemicals, supplies, tools, equipment, and multiple waste streams.

Make a Meaningful Impact

Your work will directly support patient care by helping provide a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for patients, visitors, and staff.

• High School diploma or GED preferred. Previous healthcare experience preferred.
• Ability to explain orally or in writing the differences between levels of disinfection and perform intermediate level disinfection in areas where required.
• Ability to operate necessary equipment/machines. Effectively uses computers and mobile devices. Respectfully listens to viewpoints and ideas of others.
• Communicates orally or in writing openly and candidly, creates an environment where co-workers and team members reciprocate in kind. Respectfully listens to viewpoints and ideas of others.
• Ability to work without close supervision.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran