Duties include, but are not limited to:

Select and use special cleaning agents and germicidal solutions to remove stains from a wide variety of surfaces and to provide a safe Medical Center environment.
Clean ash trays, smoke stands, sand urns in designated smoke areas and water fountains as required.
Provide interim cleaning of windows and window ledges from the inside, clean glass doors and other glass surfaces.
Clean rest rooms, bathrooms, and shower rooms ensuring that they are cleaned and meet acceptable standards.
Clean rolling stock items and other reusable medical equipment (RME) such as wheelchairs, portable lifts, stationary lifts and scales.
Provide bed-making or discharge cleaning, as indicated in the service level policy, services in-patient care areas.
Clean administrative areas to include: offices, lobbies, stairwells, medical rooms, computer rooms and recreation rooms and furniture following established cyclic cleaning procedures.
Empty trash and waste baskets, replacing liners.
Transport general refuse, regulated medical waste and recycling to central collection areas following established procedures for waste management.
Replenish supplies of paper towel, toilet paper, feminine products, hand gel/foam and soap in all areas where dispensers are located.
Conduct wall washing, cleaning doors, door frames, baseboards, corners, edges, spot washing areas, cleaning light fixtures, cleaning vents on ceilings and walls and conducts high/low dusting.
Sweep,and mop various types of floors.
Scrub, strip, wax and polish floors using heavy (industrial-type) powered scrubbers and buffers

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Subject to a background/security investigation
• Designated and/or random drug testing may be required
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• May be required to serve a probationary period
• Pre-employment physical may be required

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: The physical demands of the position is normally some heavy lifting (equipment and materials) and movement of furniture. Continuous walking, standing, stooping, bending and lifting effort are required in the performance of manual tasks described; such as washing walls above five feet and operating powered equipment over extended periods of time when providing training to employees. The work may be done from a ladder and may require lifting of up to 50 lbs.

Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Qualification Standard Handbook X-118C (www.opm.gov/qualifications/x-118c). For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume.

You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position:

• Dexterity and Safety
• Follow Directions
• Handle Weights and Loads
• Reliability And Dependability
• Special Aptitude - Housekeeping Work
• Work Practices

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).

Your responses to the assessment questionnaire will be reviewed along with the information provided in your resume and supporting documentation to determine if you are qualified for the position. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience, your rating may be lowered and/or you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

Candidates who apply under All U.S. Citizens announcements will be rated and ranked using Category Rating procedures. Qualified candidates will be assigned to a quality category. The categories are defined as follows:

• Best qualified - applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position;
• Well qualified - applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in some, but not all, of the requirements of the job; and
• Qualified - applicants possessing experience and/or education that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors.