Environmental Health Specialist Iii

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The Illinois Department of Public Health is seeking a highly motivated individual to serve as an Environmental Health Specialist
3. This role involves traveling to conduct complex professional environmental health investigations and regulatory inspections at regulated entities, including site assessment, sample collection, and hazard identification. The work emphasizes Lead Programs in the IDPH Westchester Regional Office.

• Under direction of Regional Supervisor.
• Prepares detailed reports on investigation findings, regulatory inspection reports, and corrective action necessary for compliance with applicable program and division mandates and regulations.
• Participates in conferences, consultations and corrective action planning with owners, the public, program partners, and the regulated industry related to applicable environmental programs.
• Collects, prepares, and submits environmental samples for laboratory testing.
• Attends and completes mandatory knowledge‑based and practical training required by Office of Health Protection standard operating procedure and program requirements for regional program activities.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned, which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

• Requires a minimum of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college with at least 30 semester hours in the physical or biological sciences.
• Requires three (3) years of professional experience in environmental health practice.

• Three (3) years of experience applying knowledge of local, state, and federal environmental health and public health laws and regulations.
• Three (3) years of experience conducting environmental health regulatory assessments and inspections at regulated entities.
• Three (3) years of experience writing inspection reports and communications to the public and regulated entities.
• Three (3) years of experience applying knowledge of general environmental health sanitation principles and practices.
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