UTILITY WORKER 2

About the role

The Environmental Services (EVS) Department supports a safe, clean, and efficient environment for patients, staff, and visitors. The team helps maintain hospital operations through supply management, equipment support, and responsive service to hospital units. Key highlights of the role include managing stockroom organization and delivering supplies to hospital units, maintaining and troubleshooting EVS equipment to ensure functionality, and working in a fast-paced hospital environment supporting multiple departments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain stockroom cleanliness, organization, and safe workflows.
• Monitor and manage inventory of Environmental Services (EVS) supplies, notifying designated staff when restocking is needed.
• Receive, inspect, and verify incoming supply deliveries, ensuring packing slips are reviewed and properly logged.
• Organize and store supplies in designated stockroom locations in accordance with safety standards.
• Transport and deliver supplies, equipment, and furniture to hospital units as needed.
• Troubleshoot, repair, install, and maintain EVS equipment, including dispensers, vacuums, buffers, wet vacs, carpet extractors, and ride-on floor machines.
• Perform routine preventive maintenance on EVS equipment to ensure proper function and reduce downtime.
• Tag and coordinate vendor repair for equipment that cannot be repaired in-house.
• Respond to work orders submitted through a computerized maintenance management system.
• Communicate with custodial teams and hospital departments regarding supply needs, equipment use, and repair timelines.

Requirements

• Physical strength to perform required work.
• One year of work experience that includes operation of power equipment such as tampers, jackhammers, trucks, or wheel tractors.

Qualifications

Equivalent education and experience may substitute for required qualifications.

Benefits

Other Compensation: For information about benefits for this position, visit https://www.washington.edu/jobs/benefits-for-uw-staff/.

Pay

Pay Range Minimum: $21.70 hourly; Pay Range Maximum: $26.84 hourly.

Schedule

WORK SCHEDULE: 100% FTE (40 hours per week); Day Shift: 7:00 AM – 3:30 PM; May require the ability to work weekends and holidays. Shift: First Shift (United States of America). Position type: Regular. FTE: 100.00%. Union/Bargaining Unit: WFSE HMC.