Environmental Health Specialist 1 - IL Dept. of Public Health (Job)
Description:
The Illinois Department of Public Health is seeking a highly motivated individual to serve as an Environmental Health Specialist. Travels to perform difficult and complex professional environmental health investigations and regulatory inspections at regulated entities, including site assessment, sample collection, and hazard identification for Office of Health Protection Programs with an emphasis on Lead Programs in the regional office.
Essential Functions
- Under immediate supervision
- Prepares detailed reports on investigation findings, sample reports and corrective action necessary for compliance with applicable 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.
- Attends and completes mandatory knowledge-based and practical training required by the 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.
Skills/Eligibility:
Requires possession of a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university or college with a minimum of 30 semester hours in the physical and/or biological sciences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Six (6) months of experience applying knowledge of local, state, and federal environmental health and public health laws and regulations.
- Six (6) months of experience conducting environmental health regulatory assessments and inspections at regulated entities.
- Six (6) months of experience applying knowledge of general environmental health sanitation principles and practices.
- Six (6) months of experience in environmental field sampling equipment and testing techniques.
- Six (6) months of experience work using Microsoft software products including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.