Compensation and Benefits, Electronics, Healthcare, High School Diploma, Hospital, Housekeeping/Cleaning, Keyboards, Materials Management, Postanesthesia, Prescription Drugs, Quality of Care, Recycling, Time Management, Vision Plan
Join us for our Summer Hiring Event, where you’ll have the chance to participate in speed interviews with our team plus connect directly with our Talent Acquisition team.
Event Date: Thursday, July 23, 2026
Location: Sarasota Memorial Hospital Main Campus
Apply to this posting in order to schedule a time to meet with our team!
Surgical Environmental Tech I: Operating Room
Responsibilities include:
- Meticulous nightly terminal cleaning of 36 Operating Rooms, increasing to 40 mid June (Pavilion) (Covering 3 buildings; 5 floors)
- The ceiling-to-floor cleaning includes all OR rooms; all Preop; all PACU areas
- Utilize hospital-grade germicidal solutions to all vertical and horizontal surfaces from top to bottom (ceiling to floor)
- Clean and disinfect all surfaces in each room - cords, monitors, electronics, keyboards, screens, surgical lights, kick buckets, mayo stands, linen carts, chairs, dismantling OR beds to clean each section of mattresses
- Return stretchers, IV poles, and monitoring equipment to their designated locations in preparation for the next day's cases.
- Utilize specialty disinfecting equipment, Tru-D robots
- Cleaning and removal of blood, bone fragments, bodily fluids
- Emergency and trauma cleanup throughout hallways and procedural areas during night shift operations
- Cleaning and sanitizing:
- OR and Public Restrooms
- OR Frozen Labs (2 – Main/Onc)
- Staff locker rooms – all buildings – 3 men/3 women
- Physician locker rooms – 1 men/ 1 women
- Physician lounges – 2 buildings / 2 lounges
- Staff lounges – 3 buildings / 4 lounges
- Education; materials mgmt.; admin offices and support spaces
- Floor scrubbing, stripping, waxing, and maintenance throughout all OR’s and periop areas
- Transportation and disposal:
- Clear bag trash
- Biohazard
- Amputees
- Recyclables
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prefer previous environmental services experience in health care facility or other institution.
- Prefer demonstrated ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines and timetables.
- Prefer the basic ability to read, write and follow oral and written instructions.
Preferred Education:
HS EQ: High School Diploma or GED
Work Days/Shift/Start Time:
Nights preffered but open
Why Work at Sarasota Memorial?
Reputation. Community. Impact. Growth.
Every day, our patients at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System receive a first-class experience in care from a team on a mission to deliver the highest level of care in America. In the process of rising to that challenge, one by one, our people are finding their purpose and feeling their impact. Now it is your turn to see yourself here.
The benefits of being the best:
Our commitment to becoming the best community hospital and health care system means providing the best possible benefits to our people. Some highlights:
Total Rewards Package
- Paid Time Off (start earning PTO on day one of employment)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Discounted Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision Benefit Plans for Full & Part-Time Employees
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care and Dependent Care) - Pre-Tax Dollars
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Retirement Savings Plan: 403b
- Bereavement Leave
- Free Parking
- On Campus Dining w/ a 10% discount
- Direct Deposit
- Free Wellness Screening
- Free confidential counseling services
- Employee Discount Programs
- Employee Recognition Programs
- Generous Referral Programs
- Tremendous growth opportunities for hard workers!
Employment Screening Requirements:
As part of Sarasota Memorial Health Care System’s commitment to keeping people safe, all individuals providing care to vulnerable populations are required to undergo background screening through The Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse. https://info.flclearinghouse.com/S
Sarasota Memorial Health Care System