Senior Environmental Health Specialist

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Under general direction, provides support to the Director of Environmental Health and/or designee to perform complex inspections and investigations in the enforcement of federal, state, county, and local environmental health, safety, and hazardous materials laws, rules, regulations, and standards; serves as a specialist in a designated area of environmental health; attends training in a designated area of environmental health; acts as a program liaison with federal, state, and other agencies as appropriate;

and to do related work as required.

This is the fully experienced journey level in the Environmental Health Specialist class series. Incumbents in this class are Registered Environmental Health Specialists and conduct complex inspections and investigations in a broad range of Environmental Health areas on an independent basis. This class is distinguished from Environmental Health Specialist II by requiring that incumbents must demonstrate a sound knowledge of at least one designated program and act as the departmental resource for that designated program.

range of duties. Incumbents in this class are expected to serve in a stand-by capacity for dealing with hazardous materials emergencies.

Director of Environmental Health, Land Use Manager, Waste Management Unit Manager, Consumer Protection Unit Manager.

This is not a supervisory class. However, incumbents may provide some guidance to Environmental Health Specialists I and II.

Conducts complex inspections to secure compliance with federal, state and local sanitation laws and regulations governing food handling establishments, sewage disposal systems, substandard housing, land use, swimming pools, recreational health facilities, water supply systems, solid waste management, public nuisances, toxic/hazardous waste materials, zoning, underground storage tanks, and other areas; acts as a liaison with related industry professional organizations and interested general public;

recommends changes and provides instruction for deficiency and violation corrections; advises food handlers and restaurant operators on correct sanitation methods; conducts special investigations in response to public complaints; conducts sanitation surveys and confers with local officials on sanitation problems; conducts investigations of insect nuisances or infestations; works with solid waste issues and problems, including illegal garbage dumping; makes inspections of public and private recreational facilities and swimming pools;

makes housing inspections to determine health and safety compliance with appropriate laws and standards; inspects facilities to minimize future health threats; takes water, sewage, soil, and waste samples, interpreting data; interprets environmental health laws and regulations for the public; reviews plans for new subdivisions, conducting on-site inspections to ensure suitable water and sewage facilities; reviews and recommends changes in building plans to comply with Environmental Health regulations and standards;

conducts on-site evaluations of sewage disposal systems; conducts studies and evaluates information regarding underground storage tanks and other hazardous materials storage, treatment, disposal, reduction, and reuse; completes reports of findings; initiates non-compliance legal actions, filing criminal complaints in court, or scheduling an administrative hearing, as appropriate; assists with the development of Division rules and ordinances; develops abatement recommendations for environmental health problems;

issues permits for wells, food handing…