Housekeeping Aid - Environmental Services Technician

Housekeeping Aid - Environmental Services Technician

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This range is provided by U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

$18.42/hr - $21.50/hr

This position is located in the Environmental Management Service (EMS) of the Veterans Healthcare System in Johnson City - TN. The role performs both janitorial and custodial services, including textile distribution and inventory activity, sanitizing and disinfecting, waste removal, cleaning of blinds, replacing curtains, washing windows and walls, dusting and polishing furniture and fixtures, discharge cleaning, sweeping, scrubbing and extracting, polishing floors, and applying floor finishes.

To qualify, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement – 09/29/2026. A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must demonstrate evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality. Evidence must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards.

Screen-out element will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen-out element. Applicants who meet the minimal qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and eliminated. Eligible candidates are then rated against remaining job elements. Experience includes paid, unpaid, and volunteer work (e.g., Peace Corps, Ameri Corps). Volunteer work may receive credit.

Note:

a full year of work is considered 35-40 hours per week. Part-time experience will be credited based on time actually spent. Applicants must provide detailed information of experience performed, including job title, duties, dates, and hours per week.

• The Housekeeping Aid – Environmental Services Technician executes a full range of housekeeping activities in patient and non-patient care areas.
• Use powered cleaning equipment to perform cleaning of rooms, areas, furniture, and specific architectural features (e.g., floors, walls, baseboards, windows, metal fixtures, ceilings).
• Use cleaning chemicals (sanitizer, germicidal detergent, disinfectants, deodorizers, odor neutralizers, acidic, alkaline, and neutral cleaners, floor strippers, floor finishes, metal polishes) according to label directions.
• Make beds, change linens, collect soiled linens, transport, repackage, dispose, and store general waste, regulated medical waste, chemotherapeutic waste, radioactive waste, and deliver clean linen and supplies.
• Check and replenish consumable supplies (soap, hand towels, toilet tissue, bottled water, latex gloves, etc.) during cleaning and servicing rooms and areas.
• Remove, transport, repackage, dispose, and store sharps; replace filled sharps containers with empty ones.
• Work Schedule:
  
  Monday – Friday, 6:45 am – 3:30 pm or 3:30 pm – 12:00 am.

• Entry level

• Full-time

• Management and Manufacturing

• Government Administration