Floor Care Technician Evening Shift

Core Functions

• Responds promptly to all requests for cleaning services via computerized and paper based tracking systems.
• Cleans requested areas, removes and replaces equipment and furniture, and cleans areas as needed.
• Maintains logs of completed daily tasks and events, and documentation required for the request tracking system.
• Focuses on responsive customer service.
• Performs specialty cleaning and infection control functions in specialized areas such as clinical areas, surgical suite, Cath lab, specialty rooms, and sterile areas.
• Carries out gowning and cleaning procedures specific to infectious elements in isolation rooms.
• Maintains proper Infection Control cleaning standards at all times, including hand hygiene requirements.
• Maintains cleanliness and operational functioning of department equipment and notifies appropriate personnel of needed repairs.
• Assesses environmental conditions to ensure that the facility is neat, clean, safe and orderly.
• Anticipates and resolves clutter and safety issues.
• Exercises judgment in deciding which problems need to be quickly referred to a Supervisor for assistance.
• Maintains communication with immediate supervisor and/or facilities services staff, about status of repair completion in the facility; follows up as assigned.
• Provides leadership for less experienced associates.
• May assist with on-the-job training for other staff in cleaning techniques, chemical usage, supply restocking, and infection control procedures including hand hygiene.
• Conducts scheduled floor care procedures including dust mopping, mopping, stripping and refinishing, burnishing, and carpet extraction.
• Calculates quantities and mix ratio of cleaning chemicals.

Minimum Qualifications

• Skills, knowledge and abilities normally acquired over one to two years of diversified environmental service work experience in a health care or institutional setting.
• A working knowledge of how to operate typical industrial cleaning equipment and the use of cleaning techniques appropriate to the healthcare environment.
• Basic math skills.
• Effective oral and written communication skills to provide instructions and information to others.
• The ability to communicate effectively despite frequent interruptions and changing priorities, and the ability to multi-task in coordinating several projects simultaneously.
• The ability to serve as a role model to others in customer service skills, safe work practices, and infection control including hand hygiene.

Preferred Qualifications

• Basic computer skills are helpful.
• Previous related experience and familiarity with environmental services equipment and cleaning techniques is preferred.