Housekeeping Aid Supervisor/Environmental Services (EVS) Technician

Housekeeping Aid Supervisor/Environmental Services (EVS) Technician

Department of Veterans Affairs

Veterans Health Administrion

VA Connecticut Healthcare System

Summary

This position is loced within the Environmental Management Services Division of a VA Medical Center. This position is under the direct supervision of the Housekeeping Supervisor or designee. This position performs both janitorial and custodial services the VA Medical Center loced in VA Connecticut Healthcare System.

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Summary

This position is loced within the Environmental Management Services Division of a VA Medical Center. This position is under the direct supervision of the Housekeeping Supervisor or designee. This position performs both janitorial and custodial services the VA Medical Center loced in VA Connecticut Healthcare System.

Click the "Learn more about this agency" link below to discover the perks and benefits of a Housekeeping - Environmental Service career!

Overview

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Accepting applicions

Open & closing des

07/31/2025 to 08/11/2025

Salary

$29.71 to - $34.77 per hour

Pay scale & grade

WS 2

Locion

1 vacancy in the following locion:

West Haven, CT

Remote job

No

Telework eligible

No

Travel Required

Not required

Relocion expenses reimbursed

No

Appointment type

Permanent

Work schedule

Full-time - Monday thru Friday, 7:00 a.m - 3:30 p.m.

Service

Competitive

Promotion potential

None

Job family (Series)

3566 Custodial Working

Supervisory stus

Yes

Security clearance

Not Required

Drug test

No

Position sensitivity and risk

Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk

Trust determinion process

Credentialing

Suitability/Fitness

Announcement number

CBTD-12771756-25-IL

Control number

842148900

This job is open to

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Internal to an agency

Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement.

Clarificion from the agency

Current permanent employees of the Veterans Health Administrion (VHA) including permanent Veterans Canteen Service employees, current permanent full-time/Hybrid Title 38 and permanent full-time Title 38 employees.

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Duties

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The Housekeeping Aid (HKA) - Environmental Services (EVS) Technicians who maintain VA facilities for Veterans and their families are essential to the pient care experience the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). A VA healthcare career as a HKA-EVS Technician means working alongside other Veterans, who make up 85 percent of the housekeeping staff.

As a HKA-EVS Technician, you will perform a full range of light and heavy cleaning duties and routine housekeeping duties. Veterans rely on the skills of these professionals to keep pient areas clean and safe by addressing spills quickly, discarding trash, installing light bulbs in halls and rooms, and vacuuming and polishing floors.

Duties include cleaning wards, pient rooms, storerooms, offices, corridors, restrooms, shower rooms, and other areas. HKA-EVS Technicians sweep, mop, scrub (machine) floors, vacuum carpets and upholstered furniture, empty waste baskets, clean light globes and Venetian blinds, wash walls, windows and ceilings by climbing small ladders, refill toilet tissue and towel dispensers and move furniture. HKA-EVS Technicians carry out assignments with minimal supervision.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Position Description Title/PD#: Housekeeping Aid Supervisor/Environmental Services (EVS) Technician/PD99911S

Relocion/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized

Notificions :

This position is not in a bargaining unit position.

This position is in the Competitive Service.

Interchange Agreements with Other Merit System: Employees who occupy medical or medical-reled positions and were appointed under 38 U.S.C. 4701(1) or (3) [formerly 38 U.S.C. 4104 (1) and (3)] must be serving in a full-time position without time limit and have served continuously for least one year in this other merit system to be eligible to convert to the Title 5 System. Some exceptions to this rule may apply if you have previously acquired tenure under a Title 5 appointment. Current Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.

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Conditions of employment

You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job

Selective Service Registrion is required for males born after 12/31/1959

You may be required to serve a probionary/trial period

Subject to background/security investigion

Pre-employment physical required

Selected applicants required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identificion required to complete pre-employment requirements ( ). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or ste-issued dentificion cards th are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identificion for employment.

Participion in the seasonal influenza vaccinion program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)

Qualificions

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing de of this announcement, 08/11/2025.

EXPERIENCE: A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstres you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants red in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualificion Standards .

Applicants red in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualificions . For this position, the job element method is used to mch wh you, the applicant, can do against wh the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualificions will first be evalued 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 ring; those who do not are red ineligible and are elimined from considerion. The potential eligibles are red 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.

SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualificions will first be evalued against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess least the minimal acceptable qualificion requirement are considered for further ring; those who do not are red ineligible and are elimined.

You red 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

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Note : A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience credited on the basis of time actually spent in approprie activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indice clearly the nure of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

PHYSICAL EFFORT: The position demands continuous walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, pulling, and pushing. The work requires the occasional use of heavy powered cleaning equipment (e.g., wall washers, industrial type buffers) weighing over 50 pounds. The duties necessite considerable dexterity, hand, foot, and eye coordinion, and concentrion as well as visual acuity to see dirt, dust and debris.

WORKING CONDITIONS: Work is normally performed indoors with adeque he, light, and ventilion. Some work may be performed outdoors where there may be exposed to varying degrees of he and cold as well as inclement weher. PPE may be required in some circumstance as exposure to possible contagious diseases, blood and bloody secretion are inherent to this position. Care is required to avoid serious injuries (i.e., broken bones) when working on ladders, or when using 30-100-pound power equipment or handling hazardous merials.

Physical Requirements/Working Conditions: The position demands continuous walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, pulling, and pushing. The work requires the occasional use of heavy powered cleaning equipment (e.g., wall washers, industrial type buffers) weighing over 50 pounds. The duties necessite considerable dexterity, hand, foot, and eye coordinion, and concentrion as well as visual acuity to see dirt, dust and debris. Work is normally performed indoors with adeque he, light, and ventilion. Some work may be performed outdoors where there may be exposed to varying degrees of he and cold as well as inclement weher. PPE may be required in some circumstance as exposure to possible contagious diseases, blood and bloody secretion are inherent to this position. Care is required to avoid serious injuries (i.e. broken bones) when working on ladders, or when using 30-100-pound power equipment or handling hazardous merials.

Educion

Not applicable.

Additional informion

Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacion) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave a re (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior work experience or military service experience. This credited service can be used in determining the re which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment de and is not guaranteed.

This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.

If you are unable to apply online or need an alterne method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement.

Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentive job offer. For more informion about the Act and the complaint process, Human Resources and Administrion/Operions, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP) The Fair Chance Act .

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Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution.

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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .

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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.

How you evalued

You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Narrive responses are not required this time. If you are referred for considerion, you may be asked to submit additional job reled informion, which may include, but not limited to; responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities; completion of a work sample, and/or contact for an interview. Your resume and/or supporting documention verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your ring or considerion for employment.

The Department of Veterans Affairs performs pre-employment reference checks as an assessment method used in the hiring process to verify informion provided by a candide (e.g., on resume or during interview or hiring process); gain additional knowledge regarding a candide's abilities; and assist a hiring manager with making a final selection for a position.

For more informion on the "Who may apply" eligibility requirements, please refer to the OHRM Stus Candides and Other Candide Definitions document.

Placement Policy: The posting of this announcement does not oblige management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstement. Management may use any one or any combinion of these methods to fill the position.

It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those th have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.

Financial disclosure not required.

Veterans and Transitioning Service Members : Please the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegrion support for military service members.

Benefits

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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .

Review our benefits

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.

Required documents

Required Documents

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To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes:

Resume

SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action

The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualificions for this position. Please make sure you have included other documents required for your applicion, such as a copy of your transcript (if using educion to qualify), SF-50's (current/former Federal employees), documention to support Veterans Preference claims, or CTAP documention (for displaced Federal employees). You will not be contacted for additional informion.

Cover Letter

Other (1)

Resume

Separion Notice (RIF)

SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action

SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action (if applicable for Time in Grade and/or Eligibility):

- Most recent SF-50 if you are a current or former Federal employee

- An SF-50 showing your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your applicion merials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective de within the past year, it may not clearly demonstre you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 th clearly demonstres one-year time-in-grade

- Award 50's do not provide sufficient informion and will not be accepted for the purpose of verifying time-in-grade.

-Examples of approprie SF-50's include:

o Within grade increases the highest grade held; or

o Promotions with an effective de more than one year old; or

o SF-50's the highest grade held with an effective de more than one year old.

How to Apply

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All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 08/11/2025 to receive considerion. To preview the questionnaire click .

To begin, click Apply Online to cree a USA JOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire.

Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package.

NOTE: It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and approprie documention is submitted prior to the closing de.

The Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal/VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candides for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit approprie documention (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance ring, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty locion) and be found well-qualified (have a final ring of 85 or more) for this vacancy. Informion about CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website .

During the applicion process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your applicion for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further considerion for additional positions.

Agency contact informion

Imani Langston

Phone

...

...

Address

VA Connecticut Healthcare System

950 Campbell Avenue

West Haven, CT 06516

US

Next steps

Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. After we receive applicion packages (including all required documents) and the vacancy announcement closes, we will review applicions to ensure qualificion and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certifice(s) is issued and applicants notified of their stus by email. Referred applicants notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notificion once a selection decision has been made.

You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging into your USA Jobs account and clicking on Applicions. Informion regarding your applicion stus can be found in the USAJobs Help Center .

NOTE: Participion in the seasonal influenza program is a condition of employment and a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). It is a requirement th all HCP to receive annual seasonal influenza vaccinion or obtain an exemption for medical or religious reasons. Wearing a face mask is required when an exemption to the influenza vaccinion has been granted. HCP in violion of this directive may face disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. HCP are individuals who, during the influenza season, work in VHA locions or who come into contact with VA pients or other HCP as part of their duties. VHA locions include, but are not limited to, VA hospitals and associed clinics, community living centers (CLCs), community-based outpient clinics (CBOCs), domiciliary units, Vet centers and VA-leased medical facilities. HCP include all VA licensed and unlicensed, clinical and administrive, remote and onsite, paid and without compension, full- and part-time employees, intermittent employees, fee basis employees, VA contractors, researchers, volunteers and health professions trainees (HPTs) who are expected to perform any or all of their work these facilities. HPTs may be paid or unpaid and include residents, interns, fellows and students. HCP also includes VHA personnel providing home-based care to Veterans and drivers and other personnel whose duties put them in contact with pients outside VA medical facilities.

Fair and transparent

The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.

Criminal history inquiries

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy

Financial suitability

New employee probionary period

Privacy Act

Reasonable accommodion policy

Selective Service

Signure and false stements

Social security number request

Required Documents

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To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes:

Resume

SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action

The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualificions for this position. Please make sure you have included other documents required for your applicion, such as a copy of your transcript (if using educion to qualify), SF-50's (current/former Federal employees), documention to support Veterans Preference claims, or CTAP documention (for displaced Federal employees). You will not be contacted for additional informion.

Cover Letter

Other (1)

Resume

Separion Notice (RIF)

SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action

SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action (if applicable for Time in Grade and/or Eligibility):

- Most recent SF-50 if you are a current or former Federal employee

- An SF-50 showing your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your applicion merials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective de within the past year, it may not clearly demonstre you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 th clearly demonstres one-year time-in-grade

- Award 50's do not provide sufficient informion and will not be accepted for the purpose of verifying time-in-grade.

-Examples of approprie SF-50's include:

o Within grade increases the highest grade held; or

o Promotions with an effective de more than one year old; or

o SF-50's the highest grade held with an effective de more than one year old.

How to Apply

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All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 08/11/2025 to receive considerion. To preview the questionnaire click .

To begin, click Apply Online to cree a USA JOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire.

Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package.

NOTE: It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and approprie documention is submitted prior to the closing de.

The Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal/VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candides for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit approprie documention (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance ring, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty locion) and be found well-qualified (have a final ring of 85 or more) for this vacancy. Informion about CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website .

During the applicion process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your applicion for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further considerion for additional positions.

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Agency contact informion

Imani Langston

Phone

...

...

Address

VA Connecticut Healthcare System

950 Campbell Avenue

West Haven, CT 06516

US

Next steps

Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. After we receive applicion packages (including all required documents) and the vacancy announcement closes, we will review applicions to ensure qualificion and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certifice(s) is issued and applicants notified of their stus by email. Referred applicants notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notificion once a selection decision has been made.

You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging into your USA Jobs account and clicking on Applicions. Informion regarding your applicion stus can be found in the USAJobs Help Center .

NOTE: Participion in the seasonal influenza program is a condition of employment and a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). It is a requirement th all HCP to receive annual seasonal influenza vaccinion or obtain an exemption for medical or religious reasons. Wearing a face mask is required when an exemption to the influenza vaccinion has been granted. HCP in violion of this directive may face disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. HCP are individuals who, during the influenza season, work in VHA locions or who come into contact with VA pients or other HCP as part of their duties. VHA locions include, but are not limited to, VA hospitals and associed clinics, community living centers (CLCs), community-based outpient clinics (CBOCs), domiciliary units, Vet centers and VA-leased medical facilities. HCP include all VA licensed and unlicensed, clinical and administrive, remote and onsite, paid and without compension, full- and part-time employees, intermittent employees, fee basis employees, VA contractors, researchers, volunteers and health professions trainees (HPTs) who are expected to perform any or all of their work these facilities. HPTs may be paid or unpaid and include residents, interns, fellows and students. HCP also includes VHA personnel providing home-based care to Veterans and drivers and other personnel whose duties put them in contact with pients outside VA medical facilities.

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Fair and transparent

The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.

Criminal history inquiries

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy

Financial suitability

New employee probionary period

Privacy Act

Reasonable accommodion policy

Selective Service

Signure and false stements

Social security number request

Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 07/31/2025 to 08/11/2025 Salary $29.71 to - $34.77 per hour Pay scale & grade WS 2 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: West Haven, CT Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time - Monday thru Friday, 7:00 a.m - 3:30 p.m. Service Competitive Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus Yes Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Announcement number CBTD-12771756-25-IL Control number 842148900