What are the responsibilities and job description for the Modernization Environmental Health Specialist position at Klamath County?
***This job posting will close at 5 pm on Monday, September 11th ***
Klamath County is located in beautiful southern Oregon and home to the city of Klamath Falls, known as the state’s City of Sunshine with over 300 days of sunshine annually! Klamath County offers everything for outdoor adventurers as well as a unique and diverse art community. We are home to Oregon Institute of Technology and Kingsley Field Air Base, where the 173rd Fighter Wing resides. For more information about living in this community, please visit https://lifeinklamath.com/.
Klamath County seeks to find candidates who want to make this beautiful area their home and are looking for a position where their contributions are valued and recognized. Below is a brief overview of the Modernization Environmental Health Specialist position. Please contact Human Resources for a more in-depth description of the job and more details on our extensive benefits package.
General Position Summary
Primary responsibility is researching, creating, and implementing a public health climate adaptation plan for Public Health Modernization. Performs non-regulatory environmental health work such as community education and identify resources for non-regulatory public health concerns, conduct surveys, policy work, assist with communicable disease investigations, and support other environmental health programs. Provide auxiliary support conducting inspections of licensed facilities.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Depending on experience, this is a training position, and it is expected that the employee will be able to function with minimal supervision after an initial demonstration period for each type of inspection.
- Education, Certification, & Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree with 45 quarter hours, or the equivalent semester hours, in science courses relating to environmental health or climate- related courses; transcript required to be submitted with application.
- Registered Environmental Health Specialist license
- Oregon Driver's License
- Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Language Skills – Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
- Mathematical Skills – Ability to apply basic math and statistics skills to interpret data sets.
- Reasoning Ability – Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Computer Skills – To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Database software, Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Salary and Benefits
This is an hourly, non-exempt position, with a wage range of $ 28.32 - $ 35.81 per hour. The pay range listed here reflects the FULL pay range for this position for the current fiscal year. Salary offers are based on the candidate's equivalent experience and internal equity with other employees within the same job classification.
Klamath County also offers a generous benefits package, including County contributions to health insurance, County contributions to a retirement plan, paid life insurance, paid short term disability, paid time off and more!
Klamath County recognizes and understands the importance of being able to care for yourself and loved ones when your health and safety are affected. To show our support during those difficult events, Klamath County offers all of its employees up to 12 weeks of fully employer paid leave per benefit year for qualifying events.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Working Conditions
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This position requires frequent movement while entering restaurants, traveler’s accommodations, RV parks, schools, and other licensed facilities during an inspection. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to extreme cold and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Personal protective equipment will be provided as needed to perform the job.
Work Schedule
This is a regular full-time position. The normal work schedule will be 8.00 hours per day 5 days per week; management assigns exact schedules. It is the attendance standard of the employer that all employees be present and on times each shift they are scheduled to work. Full or partial absence during any scheduled shift, arriving late, or leaving early, for whatever reason, may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment. The Public Health Employee may be required to stay at or return to work during public health incidents and/or emergencies to perform duties specific to his/her position, or to perform other duties as requested in an assigned response position. This may require working a non-traditional work schedule or working outside normal assigned duties during the incident and/or emergency. Work schedules are assigned by management and may include holidays and weekends.
Pre-screening Requirements
- Employment Reference Verification
- DMV Records Verification
- Klamath County Background Investigation
Salary : $28 - $36
