Registered Environmental Health Specialist

Greene County Public Health – Registered Environmental Health Specialist / Specialist in Training

Greene County Public Health is seeking a Registered Environmental Health Specialist or Registered Environmental Health Specialist in Training.

Environmental Health

Full Time

Non-Exempt

Environmental Health Program Manager

C42 / C43

50–80%

Regular

None

8 am – 4 pm, M–F, with one‑hour unpaid lunch. Adjustments to schedule with supervisor approval. Evenings and weekends as required. Work hours, days and times will vary based on work requirements.

Registered Environmental Health Specialist – $27.55 to $33.39 hourly

Registered Environmental Health Specialist in Training – $26.32 to $32.01 hourly

Registered Environmental Health Specialist – Under general supervision of the Environmental Health Program Manager provides environmental health services and inspections.

Registered Environmental Health Specialist in Training – Under supervision of a registered environmental health specialist receives on‑the‑job training performing routine inspections, sampling, and vector control duties in Environmental Health Programs.

To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Timely, regular, and consistent attendance.
• Project a positive and professional attitude, provide respectful customer service to external and internal clients.
• Contribute to assessments of community health status and factors influencing health in the community including intervention as needed.
• Interview people to obtain information; handle complaints, inquiries, and emergencies as required by program and health district protocol; represent the health district in a positive manner to the public by demonstrating professional and respectful customer service.
• Provide environmental health information to others either through formal training or informal communication in the most effective manner for that individual or group; distribute educational pamphlets, brochures, and booklets to the public; and utilize various types of communication to convey environmental health information.
• Collaborate with community partners to improve health in the community (e.g., participate in committees, share environmental health data and information, and connect people to resources).
• Follow health district safety policies and procedures; maintain confidentiality requirements in accordance with health district policy; maintain all required licenses and/or certificates.
• Engage in a variety of training activities to develop knowledge and skills to perform public health enforcement activities and to conduct thorough inspections and complete concise reports on inspections; attend formal environmental health training courses conducted by local, state, federal, and university agencies; attend agency, public, and professional environmental health meetings; participate in formal self‑study programs.
• Perform routine and complex inspections, testing, sampling, and plan review in environmental health programs which may include but are not limited to food service operations and retail food establishments, vending, schools, parks, camps, swimming pools and spas, housing, sewage treatment systems, land septage application, private water/wells, solid waste disposal, construction and demolition debris landfills, refuse hauling and/or septage hauling vehicles, vector and rabies control;
  
  investigate foodborne or other illnesses and public health nuisances; conduct inspections of housing, water hauling vehicles, body art/body piercing establishments; collect water and effluent samples; perform routine tests according to established health district policy and procedures to enforce state and local laws, and rules and regulations.
• Complete independently written inspection reports…