Environmental Technician III - FT- 2nd Shift- 3pm 1130pm

About the role

Orlando Health Is Your Best Place to Work is not just something we say, it's our promise to you. Orlando Health – Health Central Hospital, located in Ocoee, Florida, is a 252-bed comprehensive medical and surgical acute-care facility serving west Orange County for over 70 years. Services include 24/7 emergency care, cardiovascular and stroke care, neurosciences, oncology, orthopedics, minimally invasive robotic surgery, and more. The hospital holds accreditations and designations in bariatric surgery, spine surgery, stroke, and hip and knee joint replacement, and has earned 2024‑25 High Performing Hospital ratings from U.S. News & World Report in COPD, diabetes, heart attack, heart failure, and hip replacement, plus 2024 Top Teaching Hospital recognition from The Leapfrog Group. As part of the Orlando Health system, the hospital connects to award‑winning hospitals, specialty institutes, urgent care centers, primary care practices, and outpatient facilities across Florida’s east‑to‑west coasts, Central Alabama, and Puerto Rico. Orlando Health is committed to providing benefits that go beyond the expected, including career‑growing FREE education programs and well‑being services for you and your family, with benefits beginning on day one and flexible scheduling to support your passions. Why Orlando Health? Amazing culture built on collaboration, respect, and making a difference in patients’ lives; competitive pay with shift differentials; comprehensive benefits starting day one; career growth and development opportunities; a mission‑driven organization dedicated to exceptional care and community well‑being; and the knowledge that every role contributes to something bigger. A Brief Overview: The Environmental Services Technician III is responsible for executing the daily duties required to establish and maintain a safe, clean, and healing environment. The EVS Tech III has contact with patients, visitors, and clinical and non‑clinical staff, including physical, psychological, educational, and safety‑related interactions appropriate to the patient demographics served in assigned areas. The role transports regular waste, soiled linen, weighs and records clean linen, handles bio‑hazardous and recycling waste, maintains trash containers, performs routine manual tasks, operates trash dumpsters, scales, and packages bio‑waste for shipping.

Responsibilities

• Responds to common inquiries or complaints from customers.
• Transports regular waste, bio-hazardous waste, and recycling waste to the designated collection location and prepares for transport in accordance with Department of Transportation and Department of Health standards.
• Maintains a clean and safe environment around the linen room, dumpster/bio-trailers area, and/or designated areas to leave the area clean and litter-free.
• Empties trash containers and cleans them so they are free from spills and marks.
• Operates outside cleaning equipment, such as, but not limited to, pressure washer, leaf blower, Billy Goat, and cart washing machine.
• Takes a proactive approach to maintaining the identified patient and non-patient areas that need attention to be compliant with all mandated and regulatory agency requirements.
• Maintains work areas in a safe manner by utilizing appropriate safety systems to protect patients, customers, and team members.
• To achieve a Superior Facility Image, cleans and disinfects patient rooms, and ancillary areas, to include, but not limited to, bathrooms, public areas, corridors, medication storage rooms, as directed, and any other areas that may require attention using designated and appropriate chemicals and cleaning procedures.
• Maintains equipment in a clean and functional condition. Keeps work areas orderly, clean, and safe.
• Works independently to complete tasks as assigned.
• Responds to common inquiries from units/departments for linen requests.
• Delivers clean linen to user areas on established and changing par levels.
• Uses handheld computer (if applicable) or manual system to credit and debit clean linen to user areas.
• Records telephone requests for linen on the Telephone Log.
• Picks up soiled linen from user areas and delivers to the holding area for laundry pick up.
• Weighs and records clean and reject linen when delivered and soiled linen at pick up.
• Records the laundry truck lock tag number to Weight Log for both clean and soiled linen