Job Summary
Join Coast Staffing as an Environmental Remediation Technician.
Coast Staffing is seeking reliable, safety-minded Environmental Remediation Technicians to support contamination, biohazard-remediation, enhanced cleaning, and environmental-response assignments across healthcare, long-term care, retirement, residential, commercial, institutional, and other client sites.
This is not a routine housekeeping or permanent facility-cleaning position.
Assignments are event-based and may involve contamination-control work, IPAC-supportive cleaning, PPE use, documentation, and site-specific remediation tasks.
About the role
As an Environmental Remediation Technician, you will attend approved sites where additional trained support is required because of a specific environmental condition or contamination concern.
Work may include rodent-dropping cleanup, biohazard-remediation support, contaminated-area cleaning, high-touch disinfection, waste or soft-good handling, post-incident cleaning, and IPAC-supportive environmental cleaning in care or congregate settings.
The ideal candidate will possess
- Previous experience in remediation, restoration, professional cleaning, healthcare environmental services, facility services, waste handling, pest-contamination cleanup support, or similar work.
- Comfort working around odours, waste, soiled materials, pests, disinfectants, and contaminated environments.
- Ability to follow written SOPs, checklists, product labels, SDS sheets, IPAC direction, and site-specific instructions.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to safe work practices.
- Professional attitude, reliable attendance, and neat appearance.
- Ability to work independently while staying within the approved scope of work.
- Sound judgment and willingness to stop work or escalate when conditions are unsafe or outside training.
- Strong communication skills with Coast supervisors, site contacts, residents, tenants, staff, vendors, and management.
- Respect for privacy, confidentiality, and dignity in healthcare, residential, and institutional environments.
- Flexibility to work across different site types and respond to short-notice assignments.
Key responsibilities:
- Attend assigned sites for approved remediation, contamination-control, enhanced-cleaning, or environmental-response work.
- Perform rodent-contamination cleanup, including droppings, urine, nesting material, and related debris, only when trained, equipped, and authorized.
- Support biohazard-remediation and biohazard-adjacent cleaning assignments within Coast-approved scope.
- Carry out IPAC-supportive environmental cleaning in healthcare, LTC, retirement, shelter, residential, or congregate-care settings where applicable.
- Clean and disinfect affected rooms, surfaces, washrooms, storage spaces, utility areas, common areas, or equipment areas as assigned.
- Use approved disinfectants, cleaning products, tools, PPE, and disposal methods according to training and site requirements.
- Follow required contact times, dilution instructions, SDS requirements, and facility procedures.
- Handle contaminated waste, laundry, soft goods, or materials only where assigned and trained.
- Document areas attended, work completed, products used, PPE used, exceptions, and escalation concerns.
- Report active pests, heavy contamination, sharps, blood or body fluids, mould, sewage, chemical hazards, damaged materials, unsafe air quality, or other concerns.
- Coordinate professionally with Coast supervisors, facility managers, IPAC contacts, OHS contacts, pest-control vendors, restoration vendors, or other site representatives.
Work settings may include:
- Long-term care homes.
- Retirement residences.
- Hospitals or healthcare facilities.
- Residential buildings.
- Shelters or congregate living settings.
- Commercial properties.
- Institutional facilities.
- Offices, storage areas, service areas, or other approved client sites.
- Other locations requiring approved rodent-contamination, biohazard-remediation, enhanced-cleaning, or environmental-response support.
Required qualifications:
- Legally eligible to work in Canada.
- Minimum 18 years of age.
- Ability to work in person at assigned sites.
- Ability to read and follow SOPs, product labels, SDS sheets, checklists, and site instructions.
- Ability to wear required PPE for the assigned task.
- Ability to stand, walk, bend, reach, kneel, lift, carry, push carts, and work in physically active environments.
- Ability to work around odours, waste, pests, disinfectants, soiled materials, and contaminated areas.
- Satisfactory criminal record check.
- Vulnerable sector check if required by the assignment.
- WHMIS certification, or willingness to complete before deployment.
- Preferred qualifications
- Previous remediation, restoration, healthcare environmental services, professional cleaning, pest-contamination cleanup, laundry, waste-handling, or facility-services experience.
- Previous experience in healthcare, LTC, retirement, shelter, institutional, commercial, or residential settings.
- WHMIS certification.
- IPAC basics or healthcare environmental cleaning training.
- PPE donning and doffing training.
- Respirator fit testing where required by hazard assessment.
- Valid driver’s licence and access to reliable transportation.
- Experience completing checklists, logs, incident reports, or photo documentation.Required training before deployment:
- WHMIS.
- PPE donning and doffing.
- Hand hygiene.
- IPAC basics for healthcare, LTC, retirement, shelter, or congregate-care assignments.
- Cleaning and disinfection procedures.
- Rodent-contamination cleanup procedure.
- Biohazard-remediation scope and escalation procedure.
- Disinfectant use, dilution, SDS review, and contact-time training.
- Waste handling and bagging.
- Laundry or soft-good handling, if assigned.
- Privacy and confidentiality.
- Incident and near-miss reporting.
- Stop-work authority.
- Site-specific orientation.
- Respirator fit testing if required by the hazard assessment.
PPE and safety:
Required PPE depends on the assignment, hazard assessment, and site policy. PPE may include gloves, eye protection, mask, respirator, gown, disposable coveralls, shoe covers, dedicated footwear, and hand-hygiene supplies.
Schedule and travel requirements:
- Casual / on-call assignments.
- Event-based deployments depending on client need.
- Shifts may include days, evenings, nights, weekends, holidays, and short-notice assignments.
- Shifts may be 4, 8, 10, or 12 hours depending on the assignment.
- Travel to different sites across Nova Scotia may be required.
- Reliable transportation is required.
- Transportation or accommodation support may be provided where applicable.
Physical demands:
- Standing, walking, bending, kneeling, reaching, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, and working in PPE.
- Exposure to cleaning products, disinfectants, odours, waste, pests, soiled materials, and contaminated areas.
- Ability to lift up to 25–50 lb depending on the assignment.
- Ability to work in healthcare, residential, commercial, institutional, or facility-response environments.
- Ability to work urgent, short-notice, evening, weekend, or holiday assignments.
Additional premiums may apply for emergency response, short-notice deployment, evening, night, weekend, statutory holiday, travel, lead duties, or higher-complexity assignments, depending on Coast policy and the approved shift.
Job type:
Casual / On-call.
License / certification
- WHMIS preferred or required before deployment.
- Criminal record check required.
- Vulnerable sector check may be required depending on site.
- Driver’s licence preferred.
- Respirator fit testing may be required for certain assignments.
Willingness to travel:
Up to 50% may be required.
Work location
In person.
Coast Staffing welcomes applications from qualified candidates of all backgrounds. Accommodation is available during the recruitment process upon request.
Pay: $25.00-$30.00 per hour
Benefits:
Licence/Certification:
- WHMIS Certification (preferred)
- Driving Licence (required)
Willingness to travel:
Work Location: In person
