Environmental Services Floor Technician

FLSA: Part-time/Non-Exempt

About us

Physicians East, P.A.is a team of skilled healthcare professionals united to meet the challenge of delivering quality, cost-efficient, comprehensive healthcare to the people of Eastern North Carolina.

About the role

We are looking for an energetic employee that has experience in cleaning, maintaining, and restoring floor surfaces.

Supervision Received: Reports to Environmental Services Supervisor, Team lead, and Facilities Services Manager

Supervision Exercised: None

Typical Physical Demands: Requires stamina and endurance, prolonged standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and move items up to and over 50 pounds. Use of heavy floor equipment. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Typical Working Conditions:

This job operates in a professional medical office environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance of all floor areas, top scrubbing, refinishing floor areas in sustaining high standards of cleanliness, and sanitation
• Spot removal from the carpets, furniture, uses bonnet and/or extraction methods when carpet cleaning, assist with trash pickup
• Operates auto scrubbers, burnishers, scrubbers, wet- pickup vacuum.
• Cleaning offices, hallways, common areas and other areas, including dusting, mopping, vacuuming, when facility needs require.
• Moving furniture before and after floor maintenance projects
• Exact measurement of floor chemicals. The use and operation of chemical dispensing units
• Labeling chemical correctly
• Cleaning, maintaining, and storing equipment and PPE proficiently
• Keeping inventory of floor areas, and scheduling cleaning and maintenance duties
• Reporting maintenance issues to supervisor
• Follows practice’s policies and procedures

Location & commitments

Part-time role based at all Physicians East locations, Monday-Friday, 5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., some weekend work required based on facility needs. Overtime may be required to ensure facility needs. Tasks are completed, and calls are returned in a timely manner.

Candidate requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent is preferred.
• Experience in floor care required. Knowledge of how to strip, refinish and burnish floors with minimal to no assistance.
• Previous housekeeping/cleaning experience in a healthcare setting and knowledge of applicable OSHA practices and Infection Control procedures for healthcare is strongly preferred.
• Individual must be able to work independently and schedule cleaning activities to meet the needs of patients, and staff/physicians.
• Ability to follow oral and written instructions.
• Must display a high level of confidentiality, integrity, and initiative.
• Must be able to work well under stress, tight deadlines, and fast-paced environment.
• Must possess exceptional organizational and critical thinking skills.
• Must be able to read and understand Standard English and be able to work with standard cleaning chemicals.
• Must possess exceptional interpersonal communication skills and can create a favorable impression for the organization to all staff, physicians, patients, and the public.

Affirmative Action/EEO statement

Physicians East, P.A.is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of age, race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity, which includes status as a transgender individual), national origin or ancestry, citizenship, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information (including family medical history), physical or mental disability, or other legally protected status. Reasonable accommodation will be made for persons with disabilities during the application process and/or at the time of employment. Requests for accommodation should be made to the Human Resources Department as early as possible in the application/employment process. Contact HR Office at 252-413-6368 or email careers@physicianseast.com

Disclaimer

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.