
Environmental Service Worker
Bay Shore, NYJob$25.89–27.52/hrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Environmental Service Worker performs cleaning and related tasks for the Environmental Services Department, following established procedures and applicable policies and regulatory requirements. Duties include cleaning patient and facility areas, maintaining equipment and supplies, handling linen and waste, moving furniture, and setting up or breaking down meeting spaces. The posting prefers a high school diploma or equivalent and one year of industrial or hospital experience.
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Full job description
Req Number 192998
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
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- Performs all cleaning functions following established procedures in a timely fashion.
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- Uses properly labeled cleaning supplies for each job as instructed.
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- Maintains tools and equipment in good condition, uses supplies economically.
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- Cleans beds, blinds, ceilings, light fixtures, sinks, toilets, bathtubs, showers, walls, windows, wall tiles, ceiling & wall vents, televisions, etc following established procedures.
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- Washes and hangs draperies and cubicle curtains.
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- Washes and polishes furniture and metal.
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- Sweeps walkways and outside perimeter of facility (where currently applicable).
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- Sweeps, mops, strips, scrubs, vacuums, and buffs floors.
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- Replenishes liquid soap, paper towels and toilet tissue.
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- 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.
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- Collects garbage, cleans and re-lines trash receptacles with plastic liners.
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- Transports garbage to designated area and disposes non-infectious waste appropriately.
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- Deposits Red Bags-Infectious Waste, in holding cart in cautious manner.
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- Transports Red-Bag garbage to Sani-Pak area and inserts into Sani - Pak.Operates Sani - Pak receptacle.
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- 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).
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- Moves all of the aforementioned as necessary for the smooth and efficient flow of any required work to be performed and replaces same.
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- Sets up and breaks down tables, chairs, lecture podiums, etc according to specifications.
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- Removes trash before setting up next function/meeting
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Performs related duties, as required.
*ADA Essential Functions
Job Qualification
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High School Diploma or equivalent, preferred.
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Minimum of one year (1) experience in an industrial or hospital setting, preferred.
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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.
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Must be able to lift/carry 15 pounds.Must be able to ambulate, up and down stairs and bend at knees repeatedly during shift in the performance of cleaning duties.
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Communicate effectively in English (speaking and reading).
*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 688 open Environmental Services jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$25.89–27.52/hr
- New York median$18–20/hr67 hourly ranges
- US median$18–23/hr214 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $26.71/hr, is 37% above the New York median midpoint ($19/hr) — in the top quarter of Environmental Services hourly ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 80 open Environmental Services jobs in New York and 688 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Trinity Health25 open
- Kaleida Health10 open
- University of Rochester7 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 (273 postings).
- Education
- 160 of the 688 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 11, 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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