Environmental Aide
Mount Shasta, CAJob$28.52–32.46/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Environmental Aide cleans and maintains assigned hospital areas to support a sanitary, orderly, and healthy environment for employees, patients, and guests. The role includes handling biohazard materials, applying specialized cleaning techniques, replenishing supplies, delivering linens, and following infection-control and safety protocols. Dignity Health’s Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta is a 25-bed acute-care nonprofit hospital in Mt. Shasta, California.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Environmental Aide, you'll clean and maintain assigned areas of the hospital in a sanitary, orderly, and attractive condition to promote a clean and healthy environment for all employees, patients, and guests in accordance with departmental standards.
Every day you will adhere to proper disposal techniques for biohazard materials, including bodily fluids or sharp objects. You will apply specialized cleaning techniques to designated rooms and equipment, replenish supplies such as soap, paper towels, and tissues, and deliver clean linens to patient rooms.
You will be successful in this role if you consistently maintain high standards of cleanliness and infection control while following safety protocols and departmental guidelines. Success also depends on reliability, attention to detail, flexibility to take on additional tasks, timely reporting of maintenance issues, and a proactive approach to responding to emergencies and supporting a safe, healthy environment for patients and staff.
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Participate in orientation and training of new employees as assigned.
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Maintain cleanliness of assigned areas. Push and pull mops and vacuums.
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Wash beds. Wash walls and windows.
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Operate floor scrubbing and polishing machines Operate carpet cleaning and Wet Vac machines Operate pressure washing equipment.
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Collect soiled linen throughout the hospital Distribute clean linen throughout the hospital. Push or pull laundry carts
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Perform count of hospital linen inventory as assigned.
Job Requirements
Required
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Housekeeping and laundry techniques and procedures
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On the job training as needed
Preferred
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High School Diploma/GED
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Institutional environmental services experience
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1938, Dignity Health - Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta is a 25-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Mt. Shasta, California. Serving over 40,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level III Trauma Center, heart care, cancer care, and a family birth center. Additionally, Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta, has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center.
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Pay Range
$28.52 - $32.46 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,022 open Environmental Services jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$28.52–32.46/hr
- California median$25–27/hr30 hourly ranges
- US median$18–23/hr353 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $30.49/hr, is 19% above the California median midpoint ($26/hr) — in the middle half of Environmental Services hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 54 open Environmental Services jobs in California and 1,022 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- CDM Smith8 open
- Compass Group, North America8 open
- Sutter Health8 open
- Experience
- Environmental Services postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 12 years (363 postings).
- Education
- 188 of the 1,022 open Environmental Services jobs (18%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 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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