
Environmental Health Tech
Chapel Hill, NCFull-time$18–24.66/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
UNC Health Care seeks an Environmental Health Tech to help maintain a clean, sanitary, and aesthetically pleasing environment for patients, visitors, and staff at UNC Hospitals. The role cleans and disinfects hospital areas according to prescribed procedures and standards and does not provide direct patient care. The position is onsite, full-time, and scheduled for 40 hours per week.
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Description
Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.
Summary:
Housekeeping positions provide a clean, sanitary and aesthetically pleasing environment to the patients, visitors and staff of UNC Hospitals. These positions clean and disinfect all areas of the hospital according to prescribed procedures and standards. These positions do not provide any direct patient care.
Responsibilities:
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Cleans (dusts, disinfects, mops, restocks, pulls trash and inspects) occupied patient rooms
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Cleans discharge rooms in a timely manner for incoming patients
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Cleans support areas and critical care areas such as nurses stations, lounges, intensive care units and isolation rooms
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Enters data into the bed tracking system.
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Inspect ancillary and patient areas and projects.
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May serve as a team leader who plans and schedules tasks, makes work assignments, trains staff, controls bed tracking and inspects all areas throughout the hospital.
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Strip, wax, dust mop and damp mop floors. Vacuum, bonnett and extract carpets.
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Trains and instructs new housekeepers in proper hospital policies and procedures.
Other Information
Other information:
Education Requirements:
- None required.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
- No licensure or certification required.
Professional Experience Requirements:
- No prior experience required.
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:
Job Details
Legal Employer: STATE
Entity: UNC Medical Center
Organization Unit: UNCH Environmental Services Labor Expenses
Work Type: Full Time
Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00
Salary Range: $18.00 - $24.66 per hour (Hiring Range)
Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity
Work Assignment Type: Onsite
Work Schedule: Night Job
Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill
Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No
This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.
UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [email protected] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
How this job compares
Set against the 703 open Environmental Services jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$18–24.66/hr
- US median$18–24/hr213 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $21.33/hr, is close to the US median midpoint ($21/hr) — in the middle half of Environmental Services hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 31 open Environmental Services jobs in North Carolina and 703 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in North Carolina
- CaroMont Health6 open
- UNC Health Care (this employer)5 open
- CDM Smith4 open
- Experience
- Environmental Services postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 12 years (276 postings).
- Education
- 159 of the 703 open Environmental Services jobs (23%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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