Floor Technician - Environmental Services Unit - Evenings FT
Wellstar Health System
Summary
The Floor Technician is responsible for maintaining a clean, safe, and sanitary healthcare environment through routine cleaning, floor care, waste management, and project-based cleaning activities. This role supports patient care areas and common spaces by performing regular, terminal, and isolation cleaning in accordance with Wellstar policies and infection prevention standards.
Job description
Position Summary
The Floor Technician is responsible for maintaining a clean, safe, and sanitary healthcare environment through routine cleaning, floor care, waste management, and project-based cleaning activities. This role supports patient care areas and common spaces by performing regular, terminal, and isolation cleaning in accordance with Wellstar policies and infection prevention standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform floor care duties including stripping, refinishing, buffing, and carpet maintenance.
- Clean patient rooms, restrooms, hallways, common areas, walls, windows, and other assigned spaces.
- Follow established protocols for regular, terminal, and isolation room cleaning.
- Properly collect, transport, and dispose of waste, including biohazard, chemotherapy, pharmaceutical, and other regulated waste streams.
- Operate and maintain floor care equipment and Ultra Violet (UV) disinfection devices.
- Stock supplies and report equipment issues or shortages.
- Follow infection prevention guidelines and use appropriate cleaning chemicals and PPE.
- Assist with emergency spill cleanup and special cleaning projects as assigned.
- Provide excellent customer service while interacting with patients, visitors, and staff.
Qualifications
Preferred Education: High School Diploma or GED
Preferred Experience: Previous environmental services, housekeeping, floor care, janitorial, or custodial experience.
Required Skills
- Ability to read, write, speak, and understand basic English.
- Strong customer service and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to safely lift, transport materials, and operate cleaning equipment.
- Must successfully complete departmental training within the first 30 days of employment.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is dependable, customer-focused, safety-conscious, and comfortable working in a healthcare environment while maintaining high standards of cleanliness and infection prevention.
Requirements
- Ability to read, write, speak, and understand basic English.
- Strong customer service and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to safely lift, transport materials, and operate cleaning equipment.
- Must successfully complete departmental training within the first 30 days of employment.
- High School Diploma or GED (preferred)
- Previous environmental services, housekeeping, floor care, janitorial, or custodial experience (preferred)
Company overview
Wellstar Health System is one of Georgia's largest and most comprehensive integrated healthcare systems, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Marietta, Georgia. As a non-profit health system, Wellstar operates with a mission to enhance the health and well-being of every person it serves through its PeopleCare approach. The system employs approximately 29,469 to 33,000 team members across multiple hospitals, health parks, medical offices, outpatient centers, pediatric centers, nursing facilities, and hospice and home care services. Wellstar is nationally recognized for operating Georgia's largest integrated trauma network and features the second-largest Emergency Department in the United States. The organization provides more than $1 billion annually in charity care and community programs, demonstrating its commitment to community health. Wellstar has earned numerous accolades including recognition on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, Best Workplaces in Health Care, and PEOPLE Companies that Care lists. The system embraces innovation through its venture firm Catalyst by Wellstar, which nurtures early-stage healthcare companies, and maintains academic partnerships with institutions like the Medical College of Georgia for caregiver training. With specialties spanning cardiovascular care, oncology, women's health, pediatrics, musculoskeletal services, and numerous other medical disciplines, Wellstar delivers comprehensive healthcare across all stages of life.