Housekeeping Floor Technician - Environmental Services (Nights)

Area of Responsibilities

• Corrective floor care will include shower scrubbing hard surface floors, extraction of carpets, stripping and finishing of all hard surface floors.
• Performs any additional assigned tasks in a timely manner.
• Plan and prioritize work schedule daily
• Routine floor care will include, but is not limited to vacuuming all carpeted areas, dust mopping all hard surface floors on a regular basis, auto scrubbing, high speed burnishing, wet mopping hard floors, and spot cleaning carpet floors.
• Take an active role in customer satisfaction
• Assists in any emergency spill observed or upon request
• Completes any additional assigned task in a timely manner.
• Coordinates work flow to alleviate disruptions to patient care, by working with personnel in nursing and other areas to insure that quality standards are maintained.
• Maintains a good working knowledge of proper use of chemicals used within the department.
• Maintains assigned equipment and set-up area for cleanliness and safety.
• Observe and report any deficiencies of equipment, furniture and fixtures.
• Performs non-medical disaster duties

Compliance Statement
Employee performs within the prescribed limits of Tanner Health System's Ethics and Compliance program. Is responsible to detect, observe, and report compliance variances to their immediate supervisor, the Compliance Officer, or the Hotline.

Education
Ability to read and write

Experience
No prior work experience required

Licenses & Certifications

• NONE

Supervision

• Employee must be able to work independently, with minimal direct supervision.

Qualifications

• Must be able to perform assigned duties without direct supervision.
• Must possess good interpersonal communication skills, be self-motivated and detailed oriented.
• Must, after brief training, be able to demonstrate correct use of chemicals, supplies, and tools assigned.

Definitions

• To perform daily assigned tasks, that include preventative, maintaining, corrective and restoration of all hard surface floors and carpeted areas, according to prescribed methods. May be asked to perform Housekeeper I or II functions on an as needed basis.

Contact With Others
Performance of job requires contact with others where team work is essential, requiring tact in order to obtain cooperation. Contacts may be outside of the organization also.

Effect Of Error
Probable errors may be serious and involve losses such as improper costs, overpayment, waste of material, damage to equipment, and delay in processing work. Effect usually confined within the organization. Most of work not subject to direct verification or check. Regularly works with some confidential data such as account, salaries, patient medical records, which if disclosed might have adverse internal or external effects.

Supervisory Responsibility
Occasionally uses assistance of aide or helper in performance of task

Mental Demands
Semi-routine duties of some variety and difficulty performed under general supervision and following general operating procedures and practices. Work involves some planning to select correct methods and correct for error.

Physical Effort
Medium physical effort - Lifts, carries, or handles lightweight (1 to 25 lbs.) materials or equipment for most of the day. Occasional physical effort with medium weight objects (25-60 lbs.). Very occasional physical effort with heavy objects (over 60 lbs.).Works in reaching or strained positions for about half of day.

Working Conditions
Moderate - (About 50% of the day) Involved in exposure to dirt, odors, noise, or some work is performed with exposure to temperature/weather extremes/occupational risk. Limited probability of coming into contact with blood borne pathogens, other potentially infectious diseases, or biomedical/bio-hazardous materials.

Physical Aspects

Continually (at least once per day)

• Hearing
• Visual
• Standing
• Walking
• Handling - seizing, holding, grasping

Frequently (at least 3 times a week)

• Bending
• Reaching - above shoulder
• Reaching - below shoulder
• Color Vision
• Speaking
• Balancing
• Lifting up To 25 lbs.
• Lifting 25 To 60 lbs.
• Lifting over 60 lbs.
• Carrying
• Smelling
• Driving - Utility vehicles such As golf carts, Gators, ATV, riding lawnmowers, skid steer, aerial lift
• Driving - Class C vehicles
• Pushing/Pulling - up To 25 lbs.
• Pushing/Pulling - 25 To 60 lbs.
• Pushing/Pulling - over 60 lbs.

Occasionally (at least once a month)

• Running - In response To an emergency
• Kneeling
• Squatting
• N95 Respirator usage (PPE)