Environmental Services Technician-Second Shift

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist; Winston-Salem (NC); On-site; USD 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health system is seeking an Environmental Services Technician for the second shift in Winston-Salem, NC. The role focuses on maintaining clean and safe medical facilities, involving extensive cleaning and waste management responsibilities. Suitable candidates should possess a high school diploma and teamwork abilities, with prior experience preferred.

Qualifications

• One year experience preferred.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to operate equipment.

Responsibilities

• Performs complete cleaning of assigned areas, including sanitizing furniture and fixtures.
• Removes waste by collecting and transporting soiled linen and emptying trash containers.
• Maintains safe working environment and complies with infection control guidelines.

Skills

Good oral and written communication skills

Ability to operate equipment

Prioritizes assignments

Education

High School diploma or GED equivalent

Job description

Environmental Services Technician-Second Shift

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JOB SUMMARY:

Promotes environmental protection by maintaining healthy and safe medical facilities for employees and visitors.

Job Description

FULL TIME

SHIFT:

Second

LOCATION:

Winston

JOB SUMMARY:

Promotes environmental protection by maintaining healthy and safe medical facilities for employees and visitors.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• High School diploma or GED equivalent preferred.
• One year experience preferred.
  
  
  

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Performs complete cleaning of assigned areas to include, but not limited to: dusting and sanitizing furniture, equipment, mirrors and fixtures; washing windows, walls, ceilings, vents and light fixtures; sweeping, scrubbing and refinishing floors; vacuuming and shampooing carpet; re-stocking restrooms; replacing light bulbs; and reporting repairs.
• Heavy contact with cleaning chemicals, disinfecting agents, floor strippers and finishes. Majority of work is indoors but may assist with outdoor cleaning including parking lot, windows and roof. Various cleaning activities may include the use of a ladder.
• Removes waste by collecting and transporting soiled linen, emptying trash containers, changing sharps containers, transporting solid and hazardous waste to compactors, recycling material, and emptying cigarette receptacles in smoking areas.
• Keeps equipment associated with the job, clean and orderly, and reports equipment failures or other mechanical issues to maintenance staff.
• Maintains safe working environment and provides quality service by complying with procedures, rules and regulations, infection control guidelines, and meeting departmental quality standards.
• Attends all required in-service education and training classes including safety update programs to maintain technical knowledge.
• Consistently demonstrates the ability to meet time schedules and deadlines.
  
  
  

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:

• Prioritizes assignments to complete work in a timely manner
• Ability to operate equipment
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Works occasionally in extreme temperatures and around unpleasant smells
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with co-workers
  
  
  

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Performs repetitive work according to set procedures
• Stressful, fast paced
• Works in contaminated, isolation, construction and renovation areas
• Exposure to individuals with various degrees of mental, physical conditions and illnesses.
  
  
  

About Us

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.

About The Team

Mission, Vision and Culture Commitments

Mission

To improve health, elevate hope and advance healing – for all.

Vision

To be the first and best choice for care.

Culture Commitments

We create a space where all Belong

We Work as One to make great things happen

We earn Trust in all we do

We Innovate to better the now and create the future

We drive for Excellence – always

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care and Research Services

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