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Posted: 29-May-26
Location: Summit, New Jersey
Categories:
Hospitality, Facility, Environmental Support
Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center is seeking a Full-Time Environmental Services Manager for the Environmental Services (Housekeeping) Department. Required hours are: 9:00AM - 5:00PM including weekends and holidays (shift may vary).
The Manager of Environmental Services is responsible for overseeing and managing all aspects of environmental services within the hospital. This includes ensuring a clean, safe, and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and staff. The role involves supervising a team, maintaining compliance with health and safety regulations, developing policies and procedures, managing departmental budgets, and driving continuous improvement in the cleanliness and sanitation of the hospital.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities
- Manage, lead, and develop the Environmental Services team, including supervisors and team members, to ensure high standards of cleanliness and efficiency.
- Manages the staff and activities of the environmental services (housekeeping) department in maintaining department objectives, policies, procedures, and standards.
- Hires, trains, and evaluates direct reports and ensures performance appraisals and feedback are effectively communicated to improve department productivity.
- Prepares, conducts, and organizes training programs, as necessary.
- Work closely with other hospital departments, including infection prevention, nursing, facilities, and administration, to address specific cleaning needs and ensure smooth operations.
- Manages staffing requirements to maintain adequate levels and prepares staff work schedules.
- Collaborates with Director in the review, development, and monitoring of department budgets including staffing, equipment, and supplies.
- Maintains environmental guideline manuals and reviews the details for regulatory accuracy.
- Monitors and ensures patient throughput by reducing turnaround times for discharge cleaning.
- Provides a clean and safe environment for patients, visitors, and team members at all times.
- Collaborate and participate in managing patient satisfaction scores. As appropriate, make recommendations on potential improvement plans to further enhance performance.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- HS Diploma/GED required.
- Bachelor's degree preferred.
- To provide a safe environment to our patients, we require that all candidates must be able to read, write and speak English.
- Ability to follow written and verbal instructions.
- Excellent customer service and teamwork skills.
- Knowledge of cleaning chemicals and safe handling practices required.
- Must be able to bend/push/pull/lift 50LBS.
- Strong computer knowledge (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint), customer service skills a must.
Relevant Experience:
- Knowledge of HCAHPS related to cleanliness is preferred.
- Leadership experience managing environmental services (housekeeping) in a healthcare environment preferred.
- Experience working in environmental services (housekeeping) or a relevant area of hospitality management preferred.
At Atlantic Health, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 22,000 team members. Headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation. Our facilities and sites of care include:
- Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
- Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
- Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
- Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
- Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
- Atlantic Health Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ
- Atlantic Health CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
- Atlantic Medical Group
- Atlantic Visiting Nurse
- Atlantic Mobile Health
- Atlantic Rehabilitation
We have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group.
We have received awards and recognition for the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:
- Chosen for 17 years by Fortune as one of the magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For."
- Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook Named by Newsweek as two of the "World's Best Hospitals" in 2026.
- Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook ranked within the top three hospitals in New Jersey by U.S. News & World Report's 2025-2026 Best Hospital rankings.
- Atlantic Health scored four "A" grades by The Leapfrog Group in its Fall 2025 Hospital Safety Grades, performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries and injections, as well as systems hospitals have in place to prevent harm.
- Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook are New Jersey's only hospitals to be named among America's 50 Best hospitals by Healthgrades in 2026.
- Named by Becker's Healthcare as one of the "165 Top Places to Work in Healthcare - 2026.
- Atlantic Health Morristown, Atlantic Health Overlook, Atlantic Health Chilton and Atlantic Health Newton all Forbes Top Hospitals for 2026.
- Named by Newsweek as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion & Diversity 2025.
- Atlantic Health rated LEVEL 9 - 2025 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired.
Named one of America's 50 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades, a World's Best Hospital by Newsweek and recognized as a Best Regional Hospital in the NY Metro area by U.S. News & World Report.
Our Atlantic Neuroscience Institute is the region's leader in neuroscience care. A hub for the New Jersey Stroke Network, we offer a broad range of advanced neurological, neurosurgical and neurodiagnostic services. We are also certified as a Level IV Epilepsy Center and home to the Gerald J. Glasser Brain Tumor Center, where more brain tumor surgeries are performed than anywhere else in New Jersey. Our CyberKnife(r) program is the largest and most experienced in the state. We also have a satellite emergency department in Union, NJ, which treats about 40,000 emergency cases each year.
Committed to providing exceptional care, Overlook Medical Center has achieved the prestigious Magnet(r) recognition. This designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center is the highest national honor for nursing excellence. What's more, Overlook Medical Center has advanced certification from The Joint Commission for perinatal care and is designated an Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center. Additional Joint Commission-certified services include behavioral health care, spine surgery, wound care, and primary care medical home (PCMH).
Atlantic Health offers a competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards package that supports the health, financial security, and well-being of all team members. Offerings vary based on role level (Team Member, Director, Executive). Below is a general summary, with role-specific enhancements highlighted:
Team Member Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Coverage (22.5 hours per week or above for full-time and part-time team members)
- Life & AD&D Insurance.
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (with options to supplement)
- 403(b) Retirement Plan: Employer match, additional non-elective contribution
- PTO & Paid Sick Leave
- Tuition Assistance, Advancement & Academic Advising
- Parental, Adoption, Surrogacy Leave
- Backup and On-Site Childcare
- Well-Being Rewards
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Fertility Benefits, Healthy Pregnancy Program
- Flexible Spending & Commuter Accounts
- Pet, Home & Auto, Identity Theft and Legal Insurance
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Note: In Compliance with the NJ Pay Transparency Act (effective Sunday, June 1, 2025), all job postings will include the hourly wage or salary (or a range), as well as this summary of benefits. Final compensation and benefit eligibility may vary by role and employment status and will be confirmed at the time of offer.
EEO STATEMENT
Atlantic Health, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor and therefore abides by applicable laws to protect applicants and employees from discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, genetics, or veteran status.
Atlantic Health System's Environmental Service Department ensures the cleanest and safest health care environment for all team members, patients and visitors. Environmental Services is responsible for the cleaning and disinfection of common areas, outpatient areas, procedural areas, and patient rooms, including bathrooms, furniture, carpet/hard surface floors, vents, electronics and patient equipment. The team uses sanitizing processes of the highest quality required by multiple regulatory agencies. Often referred to as 'the first line of defense against infection,' the Environmental Service Department collaborates with the Atlantic Health System Infection Prevention and Quality Departments to ensure that there is consistent alignment at all sites. 
