Housekeeping Aid

Veterans Health Administration

Fort William Henry Harrison (MT)

On-site

USD 26,000 - 30,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Job summary

Veterans Health Administration is seeking an Environmental Services Technician (Housekeeping Aid) at the VA Medical Center in Fort Harrison, Montana. The role includes routine housekeeping and janitorial duties to maintain patient areas and clinical spaces, with shifts that may include weekends and holidays.

Responsibilities cover cleaning wards, patient rooms, offices, restrooms, and corridors, using vacuum cleaners, cleaners, and related equipment.

Qualifications

No formal education requirement.

Responsibilities

Perform a full range of light and heavy cleaning duties and routine housekeeping tasks.
Clean wards, patient rooms, storerooms, offices, corridors, restrooms and shower rooms.
Sweep, mop, vacuum, wash walls/windows/ceilings, replace supplies as needed.
Work with minimal supervision; various shifts including weekends and holidays.

Skills

Cleaning duties

Sanitation

Tools

Vacuum cleaners

Buffing machines

Job description

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

This position is located within the Environmental Management Services Division of a VA Medical Center. This position is under the direct supervision of the Environmental Services Supervisor or designee. This position performs both janitorial and custodial services at the VA Medical Center located in Fort Harrison Montana.

Key Responsibilities

The Environmental Services (EVS) Technicians 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 an EVS Technician means working alongside other Veterans, who make up 85 percent of the housekeeping staff. As an EVS Technician, 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.

EVS Technicians 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. EVS Technicians carry out assignments with minimal supervision. Work Schedule: Various shifts, including weekends and holidays.

Position Description Title/PD#: Housekeeping Aid/PD99909S 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.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.

Requirements & Education

This position does not have an education qualification requirement.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $19.07 – $22.24/hr.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-10-13.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.