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Environmental Health Tech

UNC Health Care

Chapel Hill, NCFull-time$18–24.66/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$18–24.66/hr
Location
Chapel Hill, NC
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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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.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Hospital Housekeeping, nice to haveCleaning and Disinfection, nice to haveFloor and Carpet Care, nice to have

Full job description

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:

  1. Cleans (dusts, disinfects, mops, restocks, pulls trash and inspects) occupied patient rooms

  2. Cleans discharge rooms in a timely manner for incoming patients

  3. Cleans support areas and critical care areas such as nurses stations, lounges, intensive care units and isolation rooms

  4. Enters data into the bed tracking system.

  5. Inspect ancillary and patient areas and projects.

  6. 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.

  7. Strip, wax, dust mop and damp mop floors. Vacuum, bonnett and extract carpets.

  8. 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
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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