This position is located within the Environmental Management Services Division of the VA Central Iowa Health Care System, and performs both janitorial and custodial services (e.g., textile distribution and inventory activity, sanitizing and disinfecting, waste removal, cleaning of blinds, replacing curtains, washing windows and walls, dusting and polishing furniture and fixtures, discharge cleaning, sweeping, scrubbing and extracting, polishing floors and applying floor finishes).
The Housekeeping Aid/Environmental Services Technician 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 Housekeeping Aid/Environmental Services Technician means working alongside other Veterans, who make up 85 percent of the EMS staff.
As a Housekeeping Aid/Environmental Services Technician, 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. Housekeeping Aids/Environmental Services Technician make beds, 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.
Housekeeping Aids/Environmental Services Technician carry out assignments with minimal supervision. Work Schedule: Part-time; Saturday- Sunday; 7:00AM- 3:30PM Position Description Title/PD#: Housekeeping Aid-Environmental Services Technician/PD99909S Physical Requirements: You may be asked to participate in a pre-employment examination or evaluation as part of the pre-employment process for this position.
Questions about physical demands or environmental factors may be addressed at the time of evaluation or examination. 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.
There is no educational substitution.
shannon.curry@va.gov · 470-226-6201
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $19.06 – $22.23/hr.
Applications close on 2026-09-28.
This is a 16 Hours position.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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