ENVIRONMENTAL ADMINISTRATOR-HLTH - 64027468

Your Specific Responsibilities

• Spends the majority of the time engaged in supervisory responsibilities, including communicating with, motivating, training, and evaluating employees.
• Hiring, transferring, suspending, laying off, recalling, promoting, discharging, assigning, rewarding, or disciplining subordinate employees.
• Developing performance expectations, meeting with staff regularly to discuss performance, completing performance reviews, maintaining vacation and work schedules, ensuring proper coverage, and completing timesheets.

Management and Regulatory Programs

• Administers comprehensive environmental public health and engineering regulatory programs, including Florida Safe Drinking Public Water Systems, Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems, and more.
• Investigates drinking water wells contaminated due to releases from Gasoline Stations and Dry Cleaning facilities.
• Manages and enforces environmental health and engineering programs, including Air Quality, Biomedical waste and Body Arts Programs, Food Hygiene, and Group Care Facilities.
• Oversees the implementation of the Federal and Florida Safe Drinking Water Acts, including engineering permitting, compliance, and enforcement.
• Reviews and approves construction/operation permit applications for projects of a complex or controversial nature.
• Implements a program for the protection of food, air, and surface and groundwater quality.
• Supervises a staff of environmental health professionals, engineers, inspectors, administrative staff, program managers, and supervisors.
• Participates in interdisciplinary staff teams to promote optimum resolution and follow through on implementation.
• Provides toxicology oversight and services to the County and City of Miami, coordinating with DOH Toxicologists for health risk assessments.
• Provides support to the OSTDS and public swimming pools program managers in reviewing and approving engineered and designed systems.
• Responds to sewage spills in the county, including design and implementation of water quality sampling plans, public notifications, and meetings.
• Reviews and issues general and construction-specific permits for all water main extensions, plants, and treatment components.
• Reviews and certifies completed drinking water projects, including engineering applications, laboratory data, and pressure tests.
• Reviews and approves health risk assessments and communicates them to the community.

Public Engagement and Communication

• Represents the Department in Environmental matters before the County Commission, the Environmental Control Hearing Board, and other similar federal, state, county, and municipal bodies.
• Participates in meetings and conferences with other agencies and consulting engineers.
• Provides professional guidance regarding the design and functional performance of equipment and systems.
• Participates in the review of construction/operation permit applications for projects of a complex or controversial nature.
• Works with the DOH-Miami-Dade Public Information Officers and partners in the regulatory arena to design and deliver appropriate public health messages for the community.
• Provides toxicology oversight and services to the County and City of Miami, coordinating with DOH Toxicologists for health risk assessments.
• Provides support to the OSTDS and public swimming pools program managers in reviewing and approving engineered and designed systems.
• Reviews and issues general and construction-specific permits for all water main extensions, plants, and treatment components.
• Reviews and certifies completed drinking water projects, including engineering applications, laboratory data, and pressure tests.
• Reviews and approves health risk assessments and communicates them to the community.