Supervisor, Environmental Services

Job Summary

Recommends new products by leveraging up-to-date knowledge of the latest environmental trends and regulatory requirements. Ensures team maintains inventory supplies with established par levels and participates on committees to align departmental activities. Ensures documentation, staff training, and labor relations activities comply with governing agencies regulations and standards. Manages the daily activities of staff and provides guidance, including recommending opportunities to decrease cost and increase service levels, supporting unit-based teams, and ensuring work techniques, quality assurance standards, and department policies and procedures are adhered to.

Ensures facilities are maintained in a safe, clean, and operationally effective condition by monitoring operational programs, ensuring inspections are completed on a regular basis, and conducting quality assessments. Supports resource planning and forecasting by hiring and scheduling employees, facilitating training and development, and tracking supplies used on a daily basis. Supports and encourages workplace safety by coaching team members to utilize processes and tools to eliminate injuries, providing resources for safety investigations, and compiling data for safety reports.

• Recommends developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides team members with feedback; and mentors and coaches to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations. Implements, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices and processes.
  
  Fosters open dialogue, supports, mentors, engages, and motivates team members on collaboration. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope.
• Supervises and coordinates daily activities of designated work team or unit by monitoring the execution and completion of tactical action items and work assignments; ensures all policies and procedures are followed. Aligns team efforts and standards, and measures progress in achieving results; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; resolves escalated issues as appropriate. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines;
  
  coordinates, obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and recommends improvement opportunities; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.
• Ensures clean and sanitary facilities (e.g., offices, restrooms, conference rooms, lobbies, elevators, parking lots) by: monitoring operational programs assuring that buildings are maintained in a safe, clean and operationally effective condition; leading the daily operations (e.g., cleaning and sanitizing responsibilities) of their team; ensuring general and formal inspections (e.g., ATP, glow gel, UV-light) are scheduled, assigned to the correct staff, and completed on a regular basis in all building areas;
  
  and conducting quality assessments and supervising team on maintaining a clean working area to ensure member satisfaction and infection prevention program compliance.
• Maintains environmental services equipment and supplies by: evaluating and recommending new products in accordance with the latest environmental trends, products, and regulatory requirements; maintaining up-to-date knowledge of latest environmental trends, products, and regulatory requirements necessary to deliver efficient and effective environmental services; ensuring team follows proper procedures to maintain inventory supplies with established par levels; and consulting with other departments by attending and participating in medical center, Local Market, and regional committees (e.g., peer groups, safety, disaster, infection control, interior design, and recycling committees).
• Ensures legal and regulatory compliance by: ensuring compliance with EVS departmental policies/procedures relative to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Department of Health Services (DHS), The Joint Commission, Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), waste stream management and other governing agency regulations and standards; developing, documenting and assisting staff training to ensure full program compliance;
  
  guiding team members to ensure documentation (e.g., terminal cleaning logs, destruction manifest binders, yearly competencies) is complete and accurate; and leading labor relations activities of the department, ensuring compliance with local contracts.
• Ensures quality assurance and improves departmental processes by: regulating the daily activities of staff and providing necessary guidance and support to maintain quality performance…