The Southern Arizona VA Healthcare System is seeking highly energetic candidates. The Environmental Services Technician (EVS Tech) position is located at the Southern Arizona VA Healthcare System. EVS Techs maintain VA facilities for Veterans and their families. This position is responsible for janitorial and custodial work, such as sweeping, scrubbing, and waxing floors; washing windows and walls; dusting and polishing furniture and fixtures; and emptying waste cans.

Duties

The EVS Techs 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 an EVS Tech means working alongside other Veterans, who make up 85 percent of the EVS Tech staff. As an EVS Tech, you will perform a full range of light and heavy cleaning duties and routine housekeeping duties. Veterans rely on the skills of these professionals to keep patient areas clean and safe by addressing spills quickly, discarding trash, installing light bulbs in halls and rooms, and vacuuming and polishing floors. Duties include: Cleaning wards, patient rooms, storerooms, offices, corridors, restrooms, shower rooms, and other areas. Sweep, mop, scrub (machine) floors, vacuum carpets and upholstered furniture, empty waste baskets, clean light globes and Venetian blinds, wash walls, windows, and ceilings by climbing small ladders, refill toilet tissue and towel dispensers and move furniture. Terminally cleans Operating Rooms by flooding, scrubbing, mopping floor, and washing down all surgical equipment including overhead lights, x-ray view boxes, etc. Duties are performed with minimal supervision. Disassemble, clean, and reassemble operating room procedure tables, chairs, as well as places linen on tables and chair. Responsible for set ups for special functions to include, setting up chairs and tables. Selects and uses approved cleaning agents and germicidal solutions to remove stains from a wide variety of surfaces and to provide a bacteriological safe Medical Center environment. May regularly and for a substantial portion of time operates a variety of heavy power machines such as scrubbers, buffers, vacuum cleaners, water pick-up machines, etc. cleaning and adjusting, accomplishing minor maintenance on equipment as necessary. Accomplish required tasks within time limits and be familiar with and follow isolation techniques. Adjust workload variances and cleaning requirements as required. Work Schedule: Various tours of duties and shifts to include weekends and holidays mornings, evenings, and overnight shifts, depending on the needs of the service. (For Example: 6:30 am - 3:00 pm; 3:00 pm - 11:30 pm; OR 11:00 pm - 7:30 am) Position Description Title/PD#: Environmental Services Technician (Housekeeping Aid)/PD99909S Physical Requirements: 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.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 12/16/2024. EXPERIENCE: A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstrates you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards. SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated. Eligible applicants are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements: Ability to Do the Work of the Position without More Than Normal SupervisionDexterity and SafetyFollow DirectionsHandle Weights and LoadsSpecial Aptitude - Housekeeping WorkWork Practices 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.

Education

There is no education requirement for this position.

Contacts

• Address Tucson VA Medical Center 3601 South Sixth Avenue Tucson, AZ 85723 US
• Name: Jairus Wood
• Phone: 505-265-1711 X7221
• Email: [email protected]