Housekeeping Aid/Environmental Services EVS Technician

Veterans Health Administration

Bedford (MA)

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USD 55.990.000 - 65.302.000

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3 giorni fa

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Descrizione del lavoro

Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, Bedford VA Healthcare System in Bedford, Massachusetts, seeks a full-time Housekeeping Aid/Environmental Services EVS Technician. The role involves comprehensive cleaning duties, maintaining patient areas, and supporting daily facility upkeep.

Work week is 40 hours. Responsibilities include cleaning wards and rooms, managing waste, restocking supplies, and operating cleaning equipment as required.

Mansioni

Perform a full range of light and heavy cleaning duties and routine housekeeping duties.
Clean wards, patient rooms, storerooms, offices, corridors, restrooms and other areas.
Daily cleaning of common areas including kitchen surfaces, appliances, refrigerators and floors.
Inventory and re-order cleaning supplies and equipment through VA EVS.

Descrizione del lavoro

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

This Housekeeping Aid/Environmental Services EVS Technician position is located within the Environmental Management Service at the Bedford VA Healthcare System, located in Bedford, Massachusetts. It is full-time at 40 hours per week.

Key Responsibilities

The Housekeeping Aid/Environmental Services EVS Technician 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 a HKA-EVS Technician means working alongside other Veterans, who make up 85 percent of the housekeeping staff. As a HKA-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 but are not limited to: Cleans wards, patient rooms, storerooms, offices, corridors, restrooms, shower rooms, and other areas.

Sweeps, mops, scrubs (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. Carries out assignments with minimal supervision. Address spills quickly, install light bulbs in halls and rooms.

This includes, but is not limited to, making beds, changing linens, linen distribution, dusting furniture and blinds, cleaning the kitchen, loading, and unloading the dishwashers, vacuuming, collection and removal of waste, cleaning of walls, corners, and baseboards. Cleans guest rooms as needed/upon checkout.

This includes changing bed linens, emptying trash, vacuuming, and edging carpets, mopping bathroom floor, dusting all furniture (picture frames, bed frames, lamps, TVs, dressers), cleaning glass and mirrors, cleaning bathroom (cleans/disinfects floors, toilets, counters, showers), replenishing guest room supplies including folding and distributing all linens and towels to guest rooms and/or linen room.

Daily cleaning of common areas including kitchen and kitchen surfaces, kitchen appliances, ovens, and refrigerators; living room, dining room, family room, laundry room, hallways, main office and its bathroom, visitor bathroom and stairs. The incumbent will inventory, and re-order all needed cleaning supplies and equipment through VA EVS. Work Schedule: Full-time schedules, to be discussed at interview and determined on selection.

Position Description Title/PD#: Housekeeping Aid/Environmental Services EVS Technician/PD99909S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized 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. WORKING CONDITIONS: Work is normally performed indoors with adequate heat, light, and ventilation. Some work may be performed outdoors where there may be exposed to varying degrees of heat and cold as well as inclement weather.

PPE may be required in some circumstance as exposure to possible contagious diseases, blood and bloody secretion are inherent to this position. Care is required to avoid serious injuries (i.e., broken bones) when working on ladders, or when using 30-100-pound power equipment or handling hazardous materials. Preferred Experience: Any previous cleaning or military experience will qualify a candidate. Notifications: This position is not a Bargaining Unit position.

This position is covered by locality-based comparability pay.

Requirements & Education

This job 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 $19.54 – $22.79/hr.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-10-19.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.