FOOD SAFETY SPECIALIST III - WAILUKU / KAHULUI, MAUI

About the role

Food Safety Specialists promote, protect, and maintain a healthy and safe environment for the public through inspection, education, and enforcement activities.

Responsibilities

• Identify, mitigate, and prevent disease transmission through improperly prepared foods, contaminated waters, and adulteration/misbranding of foods, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices.
• Perform inspections, investigations, education, and enforcement activities in an assigned geographic or defined specialty work area.
• Apply all phases of the sanitation sciences, understand socioeconomic conditions in the surveillance area, and use tact in enforcing and interpreting sanitation laws, rules, and regulations.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in one of the physical or biological sciences.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Comprehensive knowledge of principles, practices, and objectives of environmental health programs.
• Thorough knowledge of pertinent regulations and laws.
• Thorough working knowledge of bacteriology, chemistry, physics, vector control methods, and social sciences.

Skills

• Knowledge of sanitation sciences.
• Ability to interpret and apply public health laws and regulations.
• Tact and diplomacy in enforcing sanitation laws and regulations.

Benefits

• Paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave.
• Health, drug, vision, and dental insurance.
• Group life insurance.
• Retirement plan with employer contributions.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Transportation benefits.
• Deferred compensation plan.
• Temporary disability insurance.
• Social security contributions.

Pay

$5,107 to $6,221 per month (SR-20, Step D to I), effective July 1, 2026.

Schedule

Full-time schedule.