Environmental Health Officer 3 (PCN 187302)

About the role

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Environmental Health, Food Safety and Sanitation Program seeks an energetic and proactive Environmental Health Officer 3 to serve in the Dutch Harbor office. This position is sole representative in the Dutch Harbor office and is primarily responsible for permitting, conducting inspections, technical regulatory assistance, complaint investigation for retail food facilities, manufacturing food facilities, and public facilities (pool/spa operations and body art shops).

Responsibilities

• Permitting
• Conducting inspections
• Technical regulatory assistance
• Complaint investigation for retail food facilities
• Complaint investigation for manufacturing food facilities
• Complaint investigation for public facilities (pool/spa operations and body art shops)
• Regular travel to other areas of Alaska for inspections, audits, and training

Requirements

This position requires travel within the State, travel by small plane, boat, automobile, or other means, and may require staying in noncommercial accommodations such as school gyms, village clinics, seafood vessels, company bunkhouses, etc.

Qualifications

• Adaptability: Adjusts planned work by gathering relevant information and applying critical thinking to address multiple demands and competing priorities in a changing environment.
• Analytical Thinking/Problem-Solving: Uses a logical, systematic, and sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one’s knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
• Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.
• Technical Competence: Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or extensive on-the-job experience to perform one's job; works with, understands, and evaluates technical information related to the job; advises others on technical issues.

Skills

• Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
• Self-Management: Sets well-defined and realistic personal goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve; demonstrates responsible behavior.

Benefits

• 37.5-hour work weeks
• 11 paid holidays
• Personal leave accrual starting at over 6 hours per pay period (about 21 days annually) and increasing with years of service
• Optional membership in the Alaska State Employees Association, Local 52, AFL-CIO
• Competitive health and retirement benefits

Pay

Competitive salary commensurate with experience.

Schedule

37.5-hour work weeks.