Environmental Health Specialist 1 or 2-RS

Kitsap Public Health District seeks an Environmental Health Specialist 1 or 2-RS in Bremerton, WA. The role involves ensuring water quality and pollution prevention, conducting surveys, and assisting with public health responses. This permanent full-time position requires 40 hours per week, with occasional evenings and weekends. Benefits include health coverage, paid time off, and retirement plans. In-person interviews are scheduled for April 17 and 18.
JOB
Environmental Health Specialist 1 or 2-RSPollution Identification and Correction ProgramOur Role: Want to do meaningful work that has a real impact in our community? We work hard every day to keep Kitsap County safe and healthy. Our job is to ensure our surface waterways - streams, lakes, and shorelines - are safe and sanitary so you don’t get sick when you swim in them or eat the shellfish that live in them. Our Pollution Identification & Correction (PIC) water quality program is nationally recognized for its innovation and effectiveness. Join our team-oriented, family-friendly organization of over 125 talented public health professionals! The Position: Within agency policies, under the direction of the Water Pollution Identification and Correction (PIC) Program Manager, the incumbent is responsible for performing Environmental Health services mandated by local, State, and federal regulations governing water quality and water pollution prevention. The specific functions of this position are to protect and enhance surface waters and their associated resources and beneficial uses in Kitsap County. Failure to perform tasks essential to the position could result in an increased potential for surface water contamination, and shellfish, finfish, and bottom fish contamination, and other threats to public health. Hours: 40 hours per week – 100% FTE, requires occasional evening and weekend hours. Status: Permanent full-time position. Benefits: The District offers a comprehensive health benefit plan which includes medical, dental, vision, and life coverages, including several voluntary plan selections through The Standard, MetLife, and Aflac. The District provides medical and dental coverage contributing percentages of the average medical and dental insurance premium cost for full time employees as follows: Employee @ 100%, Employee & Spouse @ 90%, Employee & Child(ren) @ 90%, and Full Family @ 85%. Benefits include generous paid time off, and twelve paid holidays per year. Employees participate in the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), a defined benefit retirement plan managed by the Washington State Department of Retirement Systems and Social Security. Several deferred compensation retirement savings plans are also offered.Other: In-person interviews will be scheduled for April 17 and April 18. Please plan accordingly.

EXAMPLE OF DUTIES
Conducts pollution identification and correction surveys and complaint investigations to assess, identify, and correct onsite sewage system performance problems and other nonpoint pollution sources.Collects surface water, shellfish, and other water-related samples as needed or directed.Assists with program response to swimming beach closures, paralytic shellfish poison closures, blue-green algae blooms, sewage spills, and other water quality related hazards.Provides technical assistance to, and corresponds with, the public, other governmental agencies, and District staff on program related activities.Participates in public and agency watershed management and steering committees related to water quality protection.Prepares technical reports, activity reports, and other correspondence, and performs related work as assigned or as needed.Develops program related education materials and makes educational presentations to community groups and the public.Keeps current on onsite sewage and water quality issues, technologies, and regulations.Participates in public education workshops and community events related to water quality.Assists with the administration of nonpoint pollution water quality restoration contracts and grants with Kitsap County Public Works, Washington State Department of Ecology and Department of Health, and the United States Environmental Protection AgencyAttends meetings with federal, state, and local agencies.Accurately completes electronic timecard on a weekly basis as required..Demonstrates cultural competency and humility and embeds health equity in all aspects of assigned work and interactions. With the Program Manager and colleagues, works to develop, encourage and sustain a team-oriented work environment.Models a Lean Six Sigma organizational culture that promotes the practice of respect for people, openness, trust, safety, transparency, collaborative problem solving, managing with data, in the pursuit of incremental continuous quality improvement.Responds to public health emergencies as required by the District.Establishes and maintains cooperative, effective working relationships with coworkers, other District employees, and the public using principles of good customer service.Reports for work with regular, reliable and punctual attendance.Performs other duties as assigned. Physical Demands & Working Conditions: Work is performed both indoors in an office environment and in the field.Requires the ability to communicate with others orally, face to face and by telephone. Requires manual and finger dexterity and hand-eye-arm coordination to write and to operate computers and a variety of general office equipment. Requires mobility to accomplish other desktop work, retrieve files, and to move to various District locations. Requires visual acuity to read computer screens, printed materials, and detailed information. Essential duties may involve occasional kneeling, squatting, crouching, stooping, crawling, standing, bending, climbing (to stack, store or retrieve supplies or various office equipment).While performing field work, the incumbent is regularly required to work outdoors in a variety of weather conditions and walk on rough, uneven or rocky surfaces. Required to use hand to eye coordination, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls. The incumbent is frequently required to stand and/or walk for extended periods of time; walk on uneven surfaces; sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and smell in the performance of field and office duties. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Duties require the incumbent to carry supplies and/or equipment up and down stairs as well as into and out of a vehicle on a daily basis.May occasionally be required to work a varying schedule which may include evenings and weekends.Duties require carrying a cell phone or other electronic device as well as being available to work as needed to meet District needs, which may include evenings, weekends and holidays.Off-site visits require the incumbent to carry supplies and/or equipment up and down stairs as well as into and out of a vehicle on a daily basis.The nature of the work also requires occasionally working in environments which may include exposure to toxic or hazardous gasses, chemicals, or bio-substances and wearing protective clothing or apparatus.Exposure to individuals from the public who are upset, angry, agitated and sometimes hostile, requiring the use of conflict management and coping skills.Frequently required to perform work in confidence and under pressure for deadlines, and to maintain professional composure and tact, patience and courtesy at all times.The environment is dynamic and constantly changing, resulting in continually re-evaluating and shifting priorities.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Environmental Health Specialist 2-RS requires possession of a valid Registered Sanitarian (RS) License from the Washington State Board of Registered Sanitarians or the National Environmental Health Association.Performance of job duties requires driving on a regular basis, a valid Washington State driver's license, the use of the incumbent's personal motor vehicle, and proof of appropriate auto insurance.All required certificates, registrations, or licenses must be maintained in an active status without suspension or revocation throughout employment. To view the job opportunity and submit the required electronic application, please go to the Careers section of our website at kitsappublichealth.org or visit GovernmentJobs.com,