Supervising Environmental Health Specialist
Supervising Environmental Health Specialist
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Introduction
THIS IS A NEW ASSEMBLED EXAMINATION. The eligible list resulting from this examination will cancel any existing list and may last approximately one year but can be extended.
Supplemental Questionnaire: A properly completed Supplemental Questionnaire must be submitted with each application. Applications and Supplemental Questionnaires must be in the possession of the Human Resource Services Department by 5:00 p.m. on the Last Day for Filing. Failure to submit the Application or Supplemental Questionnaire will result in disqualification.
Applications and Supplemental Questionnaires will only beaccepted online.
Qualified bilingual persons who speak English and are also fluent in:Spanish Chinese Vietnamese Cambodian Laotian Korean Mien Tagalog Amharic Farsi Dari Tigrigna Russian Romanian or Sign Languages are especially encouraged to apply. There is an additional biweekly compensation for persons in positions designated bilingual. Qualified candidates may be tested to demonstrate language proficiency.
DESCRIPTION
THE COUNTY
Alameda County located on the east side of San Francisco Bay isCalifornias seventh-largest county. The County employs 9700 full-timeemployees and operates on an annual budget of $3.4 billion. Oakland the Countyseat is Californias eighth-largest city. One and a half million people callAlameda County home and live in a variety of incorporated citiesunincorporated communities and rural areas. As a major urban county Alamedaprovides a full range of services to its citizens. The County is a blend ofculturally and ethnically diverse communities and its mixture of cosmopolitanand suburban areas provides the perfect environment for families and theiractive lifestyles. The County offers extensive cultural resources countlessrecreational opportunities and an array of fine public and private collegesand universities.
ALAMEDA COUNTY HEALTH
Alameda County Health is the local government agency that promotes and protects the health and well-being of all who live work learn and play in Alameda County. We coordinate services and cultivate partnerships with community organizations and providers to help ensure access organize and deliver health care and services to people with Medi-Cal and without insurance support resilient communities and improve health for all. We focus on health equity by developing programs and systemic solutions that reduce disparities for the people and communities we serve.
Alameda County Healths departments and programs focus on services and support that provide care for the whole person.
The Behavioral Health Department provides mental health and substance use services for people with Medi-Cal and without insurance and supports people along their path to wellness recovery and resilience.
The Environmental Health Department works to keep our air water and food safe; it regulates protects and promotes the health of everyone in Alameda County by enforcing environmental health codes to reduce exposure to toxins and diseases.
The Public Health Department focuses on community and population-level health preventing and addressing root causes of health inequity across a range of communicable and chronic diseases.
Alameda County Health also provides services through Housing and Homelessness Services Emergency Medical Services Agency HealthPAC and Healthy Schools and Communities.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Environmental Protection Division (EP): As part of Alameda County Health the Environmental Health Department protects and enhances peoples health and quality of life by ensuring food and recreational safety reducing exposure to toxins and diseases and protecting the quality of our water air and environment. We are environmental protection specialists food and recreation facilities inspectors certified hazardous materials and waste specialists recreational water quality technicians land and water protection regulators and vector control biologists.
For more information about the Department of Environmental Health please visit Materials Division/Certified Unified Program Agency (CUPA): Incumbents assigned to CUPA the Hazardous Materials Division/CUPA are responsible for conducting inspections routine environmental surveys; permitting enforcement and training; investigating potential community health complaints related to hazardous materials waste tire or pollution of the waters of Alameda County; lending technical assistance during emergency response; providing regulatory oversight evaluating work sites; and ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations and local ordinances; responding to emergency hazardous materials incidents within the Countys jurisdiction; documenting identifying assessing risk and advising on clean up.
Local Oversight Program (LOP):Incumbents assigned to the LOP Divisionare responsible for providing regulatory and technical oversight for the routine or frequently seen leaking Underground Storage Tanks and other contamination sites; Providing review and analysis of technical data and evaluates the effectiveness of corrective actions at contaminated sites; Conducting environmental oversight surveys; investigating potential community health hazards; evaluating sites based on current and future use; ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations and local ordinances.
Household Hazardous Waste Program (HHW): Incumbents assigned to the HHW Division will be responsible for employee safety efficiency and compliance with applicable requirements during operations and service to the public and businesses including during handling accumulation transport and disposal of hazardous waste and materials collected at a Permanent HHW Facilities and for oversight of all activities at temporary events. Duties include: train and supervise Senior HazardousMaterials (HM) Specialists HM Specialists Environmental Health (EH) Technicians EH Maintenance Workers Clerks and administrative staff and contractor employees to provide good communication and service to the public; material handling packing and shipping recordkeeping and reporting compliant with all relevant requirements; arrange for purchase of all needed equipment supplies services; determine and implement preventative measures to reduce risk of incident injury or disruption of service to the public; coordinate on-call response to monitoring system activation and; take a leading role in response to any incident or emergency.
THE VACANCY
The vacancies are located in the above program areas however the eligible list resulting from this recruitment and selection process will be used to fill vacant positions with or without program specific specialty designations in this classification. Position designation will result in the selective certification of eligibles who possess the program specific requirements as determined by the supplemental questionnaire screening. All applicants who meet the minimum qualification for the classification are encouraged to apply with a complete application and supplemental questionnaire.
THE POSITION
Under direction to supervise and review the work of a group of Environmental Health Specialist Trainees Environmental Health Specialists Senior Environmental Health Specialists and support staff for conformity with established policy and procedures; to assist in planning developing and evaluating the Environmental Health Program; to assist the Chief Environmental Health Operations and/or the Chief Environmental Protection and to act in his/her absence; and to perform related work as required.
This is the first supervisory level in the Environmental Health Specialist series. Incumbents of positions in this class are assigned to a major geographical area comprising several districts or are assigned to a program area. They are responsible for maintaining an adequate level of service and quality and quantity of work in the district/program they supervise.
Supervision is received from the next higher classes Chief Environmental Health Operations or Chief Environmental Protection in conferences devoted to work problems personnel and policy matters.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
In addition to meeting the minimum qualifications and knowledge and skills below the ideal candidate will have:
A track record of making sound analytical decisions.
Strong communication (verbal/written) and interpersonal skills.
Strong customer service skills.
A history of exercising personal integrity.
Ability to solve problems.
Strong background in leadership and effective supervision.
Planning organizing and time/work management skills.
Ability to establish effective working relationships.
Knowledge of provisions of State and local ordinances and regulations relating to environmental health and sanitation.
Ability to explain and interpret rules regulations and laws and policies.
For a detailed listing of the essential responsibilities and core competency requirements for this position pleaseclick here for the job description.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
Graduation from an accredited college or university with major work in Environmental Health science or a related field
AND
Experience:
The equivalent of three years of full-time experience as a Registered Environmental Health Specialist performing a full range of Environmental Health work in a public agency.
Certificate:
Valid certificate of registration as an Environmental Health Specialist in the State of California.
License:
Possession of a valid California Drivers license.
NOTE: All candidates must provide their own vehicle.
NOTE: The Civil Service Commission may modify the above Minimum Qualifications in the announcement of an examination.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
The most suitably qualified candidates will possess the following competencies:
Knowledge:
Provisions of State and local ordinances and regulations relating
to environmental health and sanitation.
Principles and practices of Environmental Health problem identification
and resolution.
Functions and operations of related agencies and County organizations.
Principles of effective supervision.
Principles and practices of rodent and vector control.
Abilities:
Written Communication.
Planning and Organization.
Management Techniques.
Interpersonal Sensitivity.
Leadership.
Oral Communication.
Read and interpret plans and blueprints.
Explain and interpret rules regulations laws and policies
Works with a diverse group.
Advise guide and instruct others regarding Environmental Health Problems.
Establish effective working relationships with others.
Basic computer skills.NOTE: The level and scope of the following knowledge and abilities are related to duties listed under the Examples of Duties section of this specification.
EXAMINATION COMPONENTS
The examination will consist of the following steps:
1) A review of candidates applications to verify possession of minimumrequirements. Those candidates who possess the minimum requirements for theclassification will move on to the next step in the examination process.
2) A review of candidates Supplemental Questionnaires to select the bestqualified applicants. Those candidates selected as best qualified will move onto the next step in the examination process.
3) An oral interview examination which will be weighted as 100% of thecandidates final examination score. The oral interview examination may containsituational exercises.
CANDIDATES MUST ATTAIN A QUALIFYING RATING ON EACHPORTION OF THIS EXAMINATION.
We reserve the right to make changes to the announcedexamination components.
Alameda County utilizes a Civil Service Selection System founded on a system is competitive and based on broad recruitment efforts and equalopportunity for qualified applicants to test in an examination process designedto determine the qualifications fitness and ability of competitors to performduties of the vacant position. Many of our recruitments are targeted andspecific to the needs of a current vacant position in which case the eligiblelist may be exclusively used for that current vacant position. Otherrecruitments may be more broadly used for both current and future vacancies orfor other alternate jobs with comparable scopes of work.
To learn more about ourrecruitment and selection process please visit the What You Need to Knowsection of our website.
RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PLAN
Applicants will be informed via email with reasonable noticeinadvance of any examination process which will require their following dates are tentative and subject to change based on the needs ofthe Agency:
TENTATIVE RECRUITMENT PLAN:
Deadline For Filing:
5:00 p.m. Thursday June 12 2025
Review of Minimum Qualifications
Review Supplemental Questionnaire for Best Qualified
June 16 2025
June 30-July 3 2025
Virtual Pre-recorded Civil Service Oral Examination:
Virtual Oral Examination Ratings:
Results Notification:
Promulgation of Eligible List:
July 8-17 2025
July 21-25 2025
Week of August 4 2025
August 20 2025
TENTATIVE SELECTION PLAN:
Departmental Hiring Interviews:
August 2025
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE ANNOUNCEDRECRUITMENT & SELECTION PLAN
Alameda County and the Human Resource Services Department will makereasonable efforts in the examination and/or selection process to accommodatequalified individuals with disabilities and/or medical conditions inaccordance/compliance with the State Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA)Federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Alameda Countys ReasonableAccommodation Policy and applicable statues. To request an accommodationdue to a disability/medical condition during this or other phases of theexamination/selection process please contact the assigned Human ResourcesRepresentative listed on the job announcement before the last date offiling. Alameda County requires applicants to provide supportingdocumentation to substantiate a request for reasonable accommodation. In orderto qualify for a reasonable accommodation applicants must have adisability/medical condition pursuant to the ADA FEHA and applicable statutes.
For more informationregarding our Reasonable Accommodation procedures please visit our website County offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that affords wide-ranging health care options to meet the different needs of a diverse workforce and their families. We also sponsor many employee discount fitness and health screening programs focused on overall wellbeing. These benefits include but are not limited to*:
For your Health & Well-Being
- Medical HMO & PPO Plans
- Dental HMO & PPO Plans
- Vision or Vision Reimbursement
- Share the Savings
- Basic Life Insurance
- Supplemental Life Insurance (with optional dependent coverage for eligible employees)
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
- County Allowance Credit
- Flexible Spending Accounts - Health FSA Dependent Care and Adoption Assistance
- Short-Term Disability Insurance
- Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Voluntary Benefits - Accident Insurance Critical Illness Long-Term Care Hospital Indemnity and Legal Services
- Employee Assistance Program
For your Financial Future
- Retirement Plan - (Defined Benefit Pension Plan)
- Deferred Compensation Plan (457 Plan or Roth Plan)
For your Work/Life Balance
- 12 paid holidays
- Floating Holidays
- Vacation and sick leave accrual
- Vacation purchase program
- Management Paid Leave**
- Catastrophic Sick Leave
- Pet Insurance
- Commuter Benefits Program
- Guaranteed Ride Home
- Employee Wellness Program (e.g. At Work Fitness Incentive Based Programs Gym Membership Discounts)
- Employee Discount Program (e.g. theme parks cell phone etc.)
- Child Care Resources
- 1stUnited Services Credit Union
*Eligibility is determined by Alameda County and offerings may vary by collective bargaining agreement. This provides a summary of the benefits offered and can be subject to change.
** Non-exempt management employees are entitled to up to three (3) days of management paid leave. Exempt management employees are entitled to up to eight (8) days of management paid leave.
Conclusion
All notices related to County recruitments for which youhave applied will be sent/delivered via email. Please add @@ and as accepted addressesto any email blocking or spam filtering program you may use. If you do not dothis your email blocking or spam filtering program may block receipt of thenotices regarding your application for recruitments. You are also strongly advisedto regularly log into your County of Alameda online application account tocheck for notices that may have been sent to you. All email notices that willbe sent to you will also be kept in your personal online application will be able to view all of your notices in your online application accountby clicking on the My applications button on the Current JobOpenings page.
Please take the stepsrecommended above to ensure you do not miss any notices about a recruitment forwhich you have applied. The County of Alameda is not responsible for noticesthat are not read received or accessed by any applicant for a County recruitment.
NOTE: All notices aregenerated through an automated email notification system. Replies to the emailboxes and are routed tounmonitored mailboxes. If you have questions please go to our website at . You may also contactthe Human Resources Analyst listed on the job announcement for the recruitment for which you have applied.
NicoleLewis-BoltonHuman Resources Analyst
Human Resource Services County of Alameda
Disaster ServiceWorker
All Alameda County employees are designated Disaster Service Workers through state and local with the County requires the affirmation of a loyalty oath to this effect. Employees are required to report to work as ordered in the event of an emergency.
Equal EmploymentOpportunity
Alameda County has a diverse workforce that is representative of thecommunities we serve and is proud to be an equal opportunity aspects of employment are based on merit competence performance andbusiness need. Alameda County does not discriminate in employment on the basisof: race color religion sex (including pregnancy and gender identity)national origin political affiliation sexual orientation marital statusdisability genetic information age membership in an employee organizationretaliation parental status military service or other non-merit factorsprotected under federal state and local law. Alameda County celebratesdiversity and is committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming workplaceenvironment.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
