FOOD SAFETY SPECIALIST III AND IV - HAWAII ISLAND

Duties Summary

Food Safety Specialists promote, protect, and maintain a healthy and safe environment for the public. This is accomplished through inspection, education, and enforcement activities to implement the statutes, rules and regulations relating to environmental sanitation, and/or safety programs concerning foods, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices.

Work in this series include identifying, mitigating, and preventing disease transmission through improperly prepared foods, contaminated waters and adulteration and/or misbranding of foods, drugs, cosmetics and medical devices.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

• Legal Authorization To Work: Must be a citizen, national, or permanent resident alien of the United States, or eligible under federal law for unrestricted employment in the United States.
• Education: Graduation from an accredited four (4) year college or university with a bachelor's degree in one of the PHYSICAL or BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. Attach a copy of your official transcripts as verification.
• Professional Specialized Experience:
  • Level III: ONE AND ONE-HALF (1-1/2) YEARS professional inspectional or investigational work experience involved in the interpretation and application of the laws, regulations in public health. Such experience must show a comprehensive knowledge of principles, practices and objectives of the environmental health programs, a thorough knowledge of pertinent regulations and laws; and a thorough working knowledge of bacteriology, chemistry, physics, vector control methods and social sciences.
  • Level IV: TWO AND ONE-HALF (2-1/2) YEARS professional inspectional or investigational work experience involved in the interpretation and application of the laws, regulations in public health. Such experience must show a comprehensive knowledge of principles, practices and objectives of the environmental health programs, a thorough knowledge of pertinent regulations and laws; and a thorough working knowledge of bacteriology, chemistry, physics, vector control methods and social sciences.
• Non-Qualifying Experience: Non-professional technical work experience such as in a vector control program involving work in inspection, investigation, education and enforcement activities relating to the control and/or experimentation of mosquitoes, rodents and other small mammals, flies, fleas and other insects performed in support of the Food Safety Specialist series functions described above is not qualifying.
• Quality of Experience: for Level IV, at least one year of experience must be comparable to the next lower level.
• Relevant Substitutions: Relevant substitutions as described in the Minimum Qualification Requirements will apply (click link below).

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