Environmental Services Associate, Medical Arts Building

Join the Environmental Services team at UPMC St. Margaret's Medical Arts Building (MAB), where your work plays a vital role in creating a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for patients, visitors, and staff. As an Environmental Services Associate, you'll be responsible for maintaining patient care and public areas through routine cleaning, disinfecting surfaces, waste removal, and supporting infection prevention standards. If you take pride in attention to detail, enjoy working as part of a team, and want to make a meaningful impact behind the scenes of patient care, we'd love to hear from you!
Responsibilities:
 

• Make beds, following established cleaning procedures in all patient discharge rooms and on-call rooms as assigned.
• Inspect and ensure that all assigned areas are properly cleaned and in good repair, report problems to the supervisor.
• Replenish paper towels, toilet paper, and soap in all locations of assigned areas to assure adequate supply.
• Clean all assigned areas, including patient rooms, public areas, toilets, procedure rooms, offices and equipment, following established procedures.
• Maintain assigned equipment in clean, working condition, reporting problems and suggestions to the supervisor.
• Remove trash from all assigned areas.
• Follow all safety and sanitation regulations.
• Move equipment, furniture, boxes, wash walls, spot carpets, etc. as assigned.
• Maintains Assigned Area Maintains assigned area in a sanitary, safe and effective manner with due consideration of patients, visitors and staff, following departmental policies, procedures and techniques. Performs detail cleaning on a regular and timely
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Patient Care Areas Cleans patient care areas to include patient rooms, isolation rooms, treatment areas, surgical areas, critical care units, Emergency Department and clinical areas by following proper policies and procedures, using proper hand hygiene
• Infection Control and Prevention - Employee is knowledgeable of Infection Control policies and procedures to include OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens, Exposure Control Plan and Hand Hygiene Policy. Employee incorporates infection control and prevention knowledg
• Work Safety - Employee moves equipment, furniture, boxes when cleaning obstructed areas. Employee appropriately utilizes wet floor signs, barricades and closed for cleaning signs when performing cleaning assignments. Employee works safely, uses proper b
• Communication With Patients and Visitors - Employee is able to communicate freely with patients and visitors using proper scripting (AIDET communication tool), asks for permission to enter patient room, uses white board (in patient rooms) and tent cards
• Continuously strive to improve patient satisfaction by increasing interaction, visibility, rounding, initiating service recovery whenever needed, fulfilling patient/family requests, accommodating the needs of the patient/family by putting them first and
• Waste Management Collects, segregates, transports and disposes of all waste types in accordance to system, hospital and departmental policies and procedures to include municipal solid waste, regulated medical waste (biohazardous, chemotherapeutic and pa
• Charge Person Duties - Employee is able to fill in and handle shift responsibilities during absence of supervisor or lead. Consider ability to delegate, assign responsibilities, make necessary adjustments to schedule, inspect areas to assure that quality
• Personal Appearance - Employee is compliant with System Dress Code Policy, is conscientious of personal hygiene and wears photo ID badge.
• Chemical Usage and Knowledge Mixes, uses, stores and disposes of chemicals according to manufacturer's instructions, following policies and procedures as assigned. Consider employees knowledge of OSHA and PA - Right to Know Law, MSDS on line competency,
• Floor Maintenance Employee uses proper chemicals, equipment and technique, following departmental policies and procedures to maintain all floor types. Employee cleans and removes debris, spills and stains from floors and carpeting to effectively maintai
• Equipment Usage/Knowledge - Employee is knowledgeable of all assigned equipment, utilizes assigned equipment and carts in proper manner, keeps equipment and storage areas in a safe, sanitary and proper order, reporting any problems or suggestions to im
• Electronic Information Utilization Maintains working knowledge and proper usage of computer, My Hub, uLearn, Kronos, e-mail, login/out, MSDS, and online policy access (Infonet and SMH Info Center). Utilizes bed tracking system, pagers, telephones and au
• Self Inspection of Work Employee inspects his/her work to ensure that all work is completed properly and area is in good repair, reporting any problems to immediate supervisor or lead.
• Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.

Ability to follow written and verbal instructions in order to successfully complete housekeeping duties. Ability to use housekeeping equipment. May in the course of duties be in rooms where medications are stored. No contact with medications is allowed. 
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
 

• Act 34

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran