Manager, Regional EVS

About the Role

As a Regional EVS Manager, you will manage associates in the Environmental Services Department under the oversight of the Director of Environmental Service. You will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and developing the overall operation of Environmental Services in the Surgical Center and CARTI site locations, establishing policies, procedures, objectives, and work standards to maintain facilities in a clean, sanitary, and attractive condition aligned with CARTI values and expectations.

Responsibilities

• Ensure assigned CARTI facilities are safe, clean, and meet Environmental Services operational standards.
• Routinely train, educate, and perform audits to ensure EVS standards are met within assigned facilities.
• Manage Environmental Services supervisors and staff, including the employee life cycle such as hiring, training, recognition, performance management, and termination.
• Ensure Environmental Services team members understand and follow department and CARTI best practices, established safety rules, and fire and disaster procedures.
• Manage and develop employee competencies, best practices, and training programs to ensure compliance with ADH, OSHA regulations, and accreditation organizations.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand needs and challenges and improve patient satisfaction results related to EVS.
• Identify opportunities to standardize supply purchasing and reduce expenses; analyze data and provide recommendations to leadership.
• Assist facility leadership with productivity assessments to meet established EVS labor savings goals.
• Coordinate outside services such as pest control, window cleaning, medical and solid waste disposal, document destruction, and recycling programs.
• Conduct bi-weekly site visits and inspections in your designated region.
• Ensure regulated medical waste is handled, packaged, stored, and disposed of in accordance with federal and state regulations, maintaining appropriate documentation.
• Collaborate in managing quality improvement initiatives regarding training, auditing, inspecting, rounding, and making recommendations.
• Establish dashboard metrics with the EVS director to track operations and improvement initiatives.
• Promote a culture of safety, hand hygiene, patient experience, employee engagement, and retention.
• Manage EVS inventory to ensure sufficient supplies, disinfectants, and equipment are maintained for a clean, safe, and sanitary environment.
• Oversee equipment maintenance according to manufacturer specifications.
• Create and provide operational reporting based on EVS metrics, goals, accomplishments, and future plans.
• Plan and establish Environmental Services policies and procedures in assigned CARTI facilities; review policies periodically.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or G.E.D. (required).
• Current valid Arkansas Driver’s License.
• Must obtain CHEST certification and CSCT within 90 days of hire.
• Minimum of two (2) years of housekeeping experience, preferably in a hospital or healthcare setting.
• Minimum of two (2) years of supervisory experience, preferably within an Environmental Services department.
• Reliable source of transportation.

Skills

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with variables in situations with limited standardization.
• Ability to interpret instructions in written, oral, or schedule form.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to interact and exchange information with physicians, departmental personnel, and outside agencies while respecting patient confidentiality.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to talk or hear.
• Regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms.
• May require frequent pushing and pulling of heavy objects and the ability to lift, carry, and move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Potential exposure to infectious diseases; appropriate vaccinations and safety training provided.
• Safety-sensitive position requiring constant state of alertness to work safely.