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Environmental Svcs Aide

Northwell Health

Valley Stream, NYJob$25.89–27.52/hrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$25.89–27.52/hr
Location
Valley Stream, NY
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Environmental Svcs Aide performs cleaning and related Environmental Services tasks in a hospital setting. Duties include cleaning rooms and facilities, maintaining equipment, handling waste and linen, and preparing spaces for meetings or other work. The role follows established procedures and departmental policies, including requirements for infectious waste handling.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Environmental CleaningBuffing and Scrubbing MachinesVacuum CleanersExtractor MachinesSani-PakCardboard Baling MachineEnglish CommunicationLifting and CarryingAmbulating and Bending

Qualifications

High School Diploma or EquivalentOne Year Industrial or Hospital ExperienceCommunicate Effectively in EnglishLift and Carry 15 Pounds

Full job description

Req Number 202525

Job Description

Performs cleaning duties as well as other tasks performed by the Environmental Services Department. Adheres to NS-LIJHS/departmental policies and procedures and JCAHO/regulatory agency requirements.

Job Responsibility

    • Performs all cleaning functions following established procedures in a timely fashion.
    • Uses properly labeled cleaning supplies for each job, as instructed.
    • Maintains tools and equipment in good condition, uses supplies economically.
    • Cleans beds, blinds, ceilings, light fixtures, sinks, toilets, bathtubs, showers, walls, windows, wall tiles, ceiling & wall vents, televisions, etc following established procedures.
    • Washes and hangs draperies and cubicle curtains.
    • Washes and polishes furniture and metal.
    • Sweeps walkways and outside perimeter of facility (where currently applicable).
    • Sweeps, mops, strips, scrubs, vacuums, and buffs floors.
    • Replenishes liquid soap, paper towels and toilet tissue.
    • Moves furniture from one area in facility to another (where currently applicable).May be asked to move furniture to outside storage facility.Distributes clean linen carts.Picks up soiled linen and delivers to linen department.
    • Collects garbage, cleans and re-lines trash receptacles with plastic liners.
    • Transports garbage to designated area and disposes non-infectious waste appropriately.
    • Deposits Red Bags-Infectious Waste, in holding cart in cautious manner.
    • Transports Red-Bag garbage to Sani-Pak area and inserts into Sani - Pak. Operates Sani - Pak receptacle.
    • Moves all furniture and replaces same after carpet installations, in preparation to strip, seal or wax floors or when a department is relocating (where currently applicable).
    • Moves all of the aforementioned as necessary for the smooth and efficient flow of any required work to be performed and replaces same.
    • Sets up and breaks down tables, chairs, lecture podiums, etc according to specifications.
    • Removes trash before setting up next function/meeting.
  • Performs related duties, as required.

*ADA Essential Functions

Job Qualification

  • High School Diploma or equivalent, preferred.

  • Minimum of one year (1) experience in an industrial or hospital setting, preferred.

  • Communicate effectively in English (speaking and reading).

  • Demonstrated competency in the use of all types of buffing and scrubbing machines, vacuum cleaners and extractor machines. Demonstrated competency in the use of 'Sani-Pak' and cardboard baling machine.

  • Must be able to lift/carry fifteen (15) pounds.

  • Must be able to ambulate, up and down stairs and bend at knees repeatedly during shift in the performance of cleaning duties.

*Additional Salary Detail

The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).

The salary range for this position is $25.89-$27.52/hour

It is Northwell Health’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity and treat all applicants and employees equally regardless of their age, race, creed/religion, color, national origin, immigration status or citizenship status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, sex/gender, gender identity, gender expression, disability, pregnancy, genetic information or genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital or familial status, partnership status, victim of domestic violence, sexual or other reproductive health decisions, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,085 open Cleaning jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$25.89–27.52/hr
  • New York median$17–18/hr54 hourly ranges
  • US median$16–17/hr685 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $26.71/hr, is 55% above the New York median midpoint ($17/hr) — in the top quarter of Cleaning hourly ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 78 open Cleaning jobs in New York and 1,085 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Experience
Cleaning postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (70 postings).
Education
0 of the 1,085 open Cleaning jobs (0%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 30, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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