Careers

Description:

Job Duties

 

• Contribute to a collaborative and empowered work team and work environment
• Effectively and efficiently lead teams and manage resources including staff, project resources, work plans and service agreements; ensure consistency with Department and Division policies.
• Conduct and facilitate staff trainings. Coach, mentor and train current and new HEI I and II field investigators and other HEI IIIs.  
• Perform quality assurance/quality control activities. Review inspection reports of food and water recreational facilities, provide constructive feedback to investigators and evaluate and support ongoing training needs.  
• Anticipate and participate in solving conflicts between colleagues and other agencies/work groups. 
• Provide coordination and response for field investigations of foodborne outbreak illnesses and injuries and drownings and incidents at water recreational facilities.
• Stay up-to-date  on new and cutting-edge food policies, practices and processes to enable the program to be responsive to the changing food and environmental health climate.
• Participate in the implementation and monitoring of the food safety rating system, including training staff and conducting on-going quality assurance and control. 
• Coordinate and conduct plan reviews and field investigations of temporary and farmer’s market events.
• Provide backup and support to other seniors and supervisors as needed, and other duties as assigned by program supervisors and managers. 
• Coordinate and respond to complaints related to unpermitted street food vendors and makeshift commissary kitchens.
• Collaborate with code enforcement teams across the county to ensure food safety.
• Provide support to staff who will be conducting after hour and weekend inspections. 

 

Program and Project Management Duties:

• Prepare new or amended Food Program and Water Recreation Program policies, procedures, and rules and regulations for consideration by program supervisors, managers and the King County Board of Health (BOH). 
• Provide culturally competent education, technical assistance, and regulatory compliance guidance to industries, facilities, the media, and the general public. In collaboration with businesses, trade associations, agencies, staff and the public, participate in the development of environmental-best management practices, regulations and initiatives. 
• Participate in the development, implementation and evaluation of long-and short-range plans for overall program and quality assurance efforts. Assist with program development initiatives, quality assurance efforts and program evaluations such as participation in the Food and Drug Administration Voluntary Standards Program.

Skills/Eligibility:

Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills

Ideal Candidate:

• Within six months of hire, Registered Environmental Health Specialist/Registered Sanitarian (REHS/RS) from the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) or from the Washington State Board of Registered Sanitarians (WSBRS). See below detailed information about this requirement.
• Knowledge of, and experience applying, the Washington State Retail Food Code, the King County Food Code or food codes in other state or local jurisdictions.  
• Demonstrated cultural competence working with diverse populations including race, ethnicity, gender, ability, age, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status. Demonstrated ability applying principles of equity and social justice while providing government services. 
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and create a climate in which people want to do their best and an ability to motivate and enable co-workers to grow and succeed through instruction, encouragement, and constructive feedback.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate meetings and provide presentations to a wide range and size of audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with the public, program staff and other agencies; and to participate effectively on committees and work groups to collaboratively discuss and resolve issues and develop recommendations for long term program evaluation and planning.
• Demonstrated knowledge of food safety and water recreation facility statutes, rules and regulations. 
• Demonstrated ability to research and draft program policies, procedures, correspondence, and technical reports.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in oral and written formats.
• Demonstrated proficiency with computer systems, Microsoft Office suite, and keeping detailed records in databases.
• Possess a current, Valid, WA State Driver License or the ability to obtain one prior to starting work if selected for this position; ability to drive a car.

 

Desired Candidate:

• Experience working in a highly collaborative government program or coalition.
• Established effective working relationships with program partner agencies.
• Bilingual in one of the most common non-English languages in King County (such as Spanish, Arabic, Somali, Hindi, Punjabi, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean)