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Environmental Specialist Duties, Skills & Responsibilities: a Guide for Employers

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When hiring Environmental Specialists, it’s important to properly describe the job opening with the duties, skills and responsibilities of the role. We’ve compiled a guide to Environmental Specialist Duties, Skills & Responsibilities using data from actual job postings on Indeed.

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Popular Environmental Specialist Duties and Skills

Here are some commonly found skills and other specifications in job postings for Environmental Specialists.

Cleaning

  • Definition : Experience cleaning, sanitizing, and organizing objects and spaces.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 30.1% of Environmental Specialist job postings on Indeed.

Custodial experience

  • Definition : Experience maintaining commercial spaces through routine cleaning and light maintenance.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 10.7% of Environmental Specialist job postings on Indeed.

Environmental services

  • Definition : Experience sanitizing highly-trafficked spaces which may contain biohazardous waste.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 7.3% of Environmental Specialist job postings on Indeed.

Floor care

  • Definition : Experience cleaning, maintaining, and restoring floor surfaces.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 3% of Environmental Specialist job postings on Indeed.

Hospital experience

  • Definition : Skill or experience working in a hospital in an administrative or clinical capacity.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 0-1
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 2.4% of Environmental Specialist job postings on Indeed.

Sanitation

  • Definition : Skill or experience in sanitation.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.7% of Environmental Specialist job postings on Indeed.

Commercial cleaning

  • Definition : Skill or experience cleaning in commercial buildings, such as an office building, medical center, assisted living facility, hotel, entertainment venue, or store, often using industrial or commercial grade cleaning products or equipment.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 0-1
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.7% of Environmental Specialist job postings on Indeed.

OSHA

  • Definition : Experience with or knowledge of the standards of the Occupational Health and Safety Association.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 2-3
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.7% of Environmental Specialist job postings on Indeed.
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