Patient-Focused Healthcare Environmental Services Tech

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

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.