Environmental Health Food Inspector

## Environmental Health Food Inspector Apply:
Cannon Building:
Full time:
Posted Today:
End Date:
October 5, 2026 (9 days left to apply):
JR103752#
** Department
* * Department of Health#
** Division
* * Regulatory Compliance#
** Salary**$59,609.00 - $68,182.00#
** Job Profile
** JC--9 - Environmental Health Food Inspector (Council 94 Local 2870 Health)#
** Scheduled Work Days & Work Hours
** Monday - Friday; 8:30am - 4:30pm
** Standard 35.0*
* ** Division:
Environmental Health**#
** Job

Requisition Number
** JR103752 Environmental Health Food Inspector (Open)#
** Pay Grade
** C00323 A#
** Classification
* * Environmental Health Food Inspector#
** Class Definition
**** GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES:
** To identify and eliminate conditions hazardous to life and health in food, recreational, and other licensed facilities and to insure compliance with applicable statutes and regulations. To insure that corrective actions are taken to eliminate identified hazards, and to do related work as required.
** SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
** Receives direction and instruction from a superior as to policies and objectives; work is subject to review for conformance with departmental rules, regulations, and policies.
** SUPERVISION EXERCISED:
** None.
** ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES OF WORK PERFORMED:
*** To inspect, investigate, and evaluate for public health hazards, environmental conditions, and compliance with rules and regulations; restaurants, food processors, dairy plants and farms, shellfish processors, food warehouses, nursing homes, hospitals, youth camps, recreational facilities, bathing beaches, schools/daycare centers, and other regulated facilities.
* To assist in setting in motion the implementation of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems in food establishments and to verify implementation.
* To respond to complaints relative to foodborne illnesses, adulterated foods, food tampering, recalls, misbranding/false advertising of foods, and rodent/insect infestations.
* To provide 24 hour emergency response to foodborne illness complaints, fires in food establishments, vehicular and nuclear power plant accidents, incidents of food or water contamination, power outages, and natural disasters involving food products and to conduct inspections as needed after hours and on weekends.
* To utilize thermocouples and thermometers, to conduct field tests for chemical sanitizing agents.
* To collect and transport food samples according to legal chain of custody requirements to determine adulteration, contamination, sources of pollution and/or microbiological quality. To exercise professional judgement in deciding whether information collected during inspections and surveys constitutes violations of regulations and standards.
* To evaluate if foods are safe for human consumption and in compliance with nutritional labeling requirements.
* To embargo and oversee the disposal of food products found unfit for human consumption, and evaluate for imminent hazards to health which warrant closure of the facility.
* To assist in instituting appropriate regulatory action when needed, including the preparation of regulatory correspondence, to maintain appropriate records of activities, and to follow up on violations to insure corrective actions have been taken and public health hazards are eliminated.
* To testify at hearings and court proceedings concerning regulatory actions taken.
* To perform mathematical computations and to use portable computers to enter data, write, and print inspection reports.
* To conduct investigations which may require kneeling, bending, and lifting while at times being exposed to hazardous conditions such as extremes of heat and cold, fire damaged buildings, and exposure to ill individuals or potential…