Job Summary:

Serve as a working supervisor in a hospital setting, overseeing Environmental Services staff while ensuring the cleanliness, sanitization, and maintenance of patient care areas and hospital facilities. Responsibilities include assigning staff, conducting inspections, training and retraining employees, monitoring work quality, responding to service concerns, and ensuring compliance with infection control, safety, and regulatory standards. Additional duties include completing work orders, handling regulated medical waste (RMW), performing UV disinfection procedures, performing special cleaning projects, and serving as a liaison between frontline staff and leadership.

Qualified candidates must possess strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills, as well as the ability to work in a fast-paced healthcare environment. Floor care experience and knowledge of healthcare environmental services and infection prevention practices are preferred. Must be able to perform physical duties including standing, walking, bending, lifting, and climbing ladders for extended periods.

Minimum Qualifications:

For consideration of this title, you must meet one of the following minimum qualifications:

NYS Department of Civil Service Eligible List or eligible for transfer

Or

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You must be a qualified employee of New York State and have had one year of permanent competitive, non-competitive, labor, or 55-b/55-c service in the Janitor title.

Open competitive (Non-competitive, NY HELPS) Qualifications:

Two years of satisfactory full-time experience in the custodial care or cleaning of buildings, offices, or institutional residences of which one year of the experience must have been at a supervisory level.

Preferred Qualifications:

Work Days:

100% Supervising Janitor, 7:00am-3:30pm rotating pass days, weekends, and holidays. Located at the Downtown Campus.

Message to Applicants:

Position Status:  Permanent

Salary: $49,841

The NYS Department of Civil Service has expanded the NY HELPS Program. During this program, the NYS Civil Service Exam requirements are suspended for the Supervising Janitor title.

Recruitment Office:

Human Resources