This position is located within the Environmental Management Services Division of a VA Medical Center. This position is under the direct supervision of the Housekeeping Supervisor or designee. This position performs both janitorial and custodial services at the VA Medical Center located in Detroit, Michigan . Click the "Learn more about this agency" link below to discover the perks and benefits of a Housekeeping - Environmental Service career!

Duties

The Housekeeping Aid (HKA) - Environmental Services (EVS) Technicians who maintain VA facilities for Veterans and their families are essential to the patient care experience at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). A VA healthcare career as a HKA-EVS Technician means working alongside other Veterans, who make up 85 percent of the housekeeping staff. The Environmental Services Technician Lead (Housekeeping Aid Lead) is responsible for leading and overseeing the duties of Housekeeping Aids in the performance of housekeeping related services in the various areas of the medical center. Major duties and responsibilities will include: Provides the full range of housekeeping services and maintains established sanitation standards in all areas assigned and leads WG-1 or WG-2 Housekeeping Aids; Utilizes responsibility for co-planning and organizing weekend/night-shift manpower utilization by making area coverage assignments to the individual housekeeping aids and defers to the Evening Shift Supervisor, if needed; Assists housekeeping aids in accomplishing cleaning assignments; Gives new employees on the job training, demonstrations, verbal instructions and special assistance during their first few weeks of employment and continues to check work in progress; Determining the equipment and cleaning materials needed for each job; Ensures materials and tools are available and that needed stock is obtained from supply locations; Visually inspects work in progress, insuring that proper techniques and procedures are being followed; Inspects all completed work, judges whether the quantity and quality of the work is satisfactory and assigns housekeeping aids to repeat the work, if necessary; Checks the assigned areas of responsibility for items requiring special work and assigns these periodic duties to housekeeping aids; Utilizes full working knowledge of housekeeping operations; Maintains carpets, vinyl tiles, vinyl sheet goods, terrazzo, rubber and concrete floors Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 3:00PM - 11:30PM Position Description Title/PD#: Housekeeping Aid (Leader)/PD5945A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/02/2024. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume. You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position: InspectInstructLead or SupervisePlan and organize work Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. PHYSICAL EFFORT: The position demands continuous walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, pulling, and pushing. The work requires the occasional use of heavy powered cleaning equipment (e.g., wall washers, industrial type buffers) weighing over 50 pounds. The duties necessitate considerable dexterity, hand, foot, and eye coordination, and concentration as well as visual acuity to see dirt, dust and debris. WORKING CONDITIONS: Work is normally performed indoors with adequate heat, light, and ventilation. Some work may be performed outdoors where there may be exposed to varying degrees of heat and cold as well as inclement weather. PPE may be required in some circumstance as exposure to possible contagious diseases, blood and bloody secretion are inherent to this position. Care is required to avoid serious injuries (i.e., broken bones) when working on ladders, or when using 30-100-pound power equipment or handling hazardous materials.

Education

Not applicable.

Contacts

• Address John D Dingell Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center 4646 John R Street Detroit, MI 48201 US
• Name: Joe Franklin
• Phone: 313-576-4705
• Email: [email protected]