Environmental Health Manager

The Environmental Health Manager at Louisville Metro Government oversees environmental health programs, including hazardous materials, wastewater treatment, and food hygiene inspections. Responsibilities include supervising staff, coordinating work, managing operations during emergencies, interpreting regulations, and conducting community assessments. Candidates should have a relevant Bachelor's degree and four years of experience in public health or environmental health, including supervisory experience.
Summary Objective

The purpose of this position is to manage the environmental health, hazardous materials, wastewater treatment, public facilities, mosquito, housing, and food hygiene inspection or emergency response programs. This class works under general supervision, independently developing work methods and sequences.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

The essential functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this class. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the class as necessary.
• Supervises, directs, and evaluates assigned staff, processing employee concerns and problems, directing work, counseling, disciplining, and completing employee performance appraisals.
• Coordinates, assigns and reviews work and establishes work schedules; maintains standards; monitors status of work in progress; inspects completed work assignments; answers questions; gives advice and direction as needed.
• Manages operations and staff engaged in the legal enforcement of environmental regulations and ordinances, and responding to hazardous materials events, epidemics, floods, natural disasters, and other emergencies.
• Provides guidance and interpretation of codes in enforcement cases involving multiple codes, renders decisions in complex cases or media sensitive cases, and monitors timeliness of enforcement cases and special projects.
• Administers office hearings, and meditates settlements when voluntary compliance with regulations has not been achieved.
• Evaluates productivity data, establishes work load and program priorities, and anticipates and plans for seasonal staffing needs to assure allocation of resources and sharing of field staff is accomplished to meet demands.
• Develops program objectives for annual budget, and determines annual goals for program areas.
• Manages a field operation component during hazardous materials events, epidemics, floods, natural disasters, and other emergencies; and coordinates efforts with other participating agencies.
• Develops work protocols, and implements program changes or procedures to improve the efficiency of operations.
• Plans and conducts community environmental needs assessments through surveys, focus groups, and public meetings to identify, address and resolve environmental health problems in communities.
• Performs related work as assigned.
MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
• Bachelor’s Degree in any Basic Science, Community Health, Environmental Health, Political Science, Public Administration, Business, Education, Agriculture, Engineering, Mathematics, Pre-Law or related discipline. Twenty-four (24) hours must be environmental, biological, or physical science.
• Four (4) years of public health, environmental health or sanitary inspections, enforcement or engineering experience, including one year of supervisory experience or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Physical demands refer to the requirements for physical exertion and coordination of limb and body movement.
• Primarily performs sedentary work that involves walking or standing some of the time and involves exerting up to 10 pounds of force on a regular and recurring basis or sustained keyboard operations