Licensed Environmental Health Scientist in Training
About the role
Under close direction of an Environmental Health Program Manager, this training position receives on-the-job training in routine environmental health work.
Responsibilities
- Conduct routine inspections for compliance with regulations.
- Conduct general environmental surveys.
- Investigate complaints relating to general environmental health programs.
- Perform sampling, surveillance, and monitoring for specific environmental health program requirements.
- Review and evaluate laboratory results, construction plans, specifications, and systems.
- Participate in emergency response situations and make recommendations concerning environmental health aspects.
- Assist in the enforcement of local, state, and federal environmental health regulations.
- Accumulate evidence of violations of environmental health laws and help initiate legal action.
- Initiate necessary abatement procedures.
Duties are performed in one or more of the following programs: Food Service; Public Swimming Pools; Solid Waste; Drinking Water; Air Pollution; Housing; Vector Control; Water Quality; Wastewater; Complaints; Public Accommodations; Institutions; Radiation; Hazardous Waste; Other Related Programs.
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s Degree from an Environmental Health Program accredited by the National Environmental Health Science and Protection Accreditation Council (EHAC); or
- A Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited program with a major in Agronomy; Biology; Botany; Chemistry; Environmental Health Science; Geology; Microbiology; Physics; Physiology; Sanitary Engineering; Zoology; or
- A Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited program including a college-level algebra or math course and 30 semester hours (or 45 quarter hours) from at least three of the curricula listed above.
Applicant must be qualified to become licensed as an Environmental Health Scientist-in-Training at time of hire.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Fundamental knowledge of public relations and report writing.
- Ability to follow written and verbal instructions.
- Ability to establish effective working relationships with other employees, agencies, and the public.
Special Requirements
- This is a training position requiring practice under general supervision of a licensed Environmental Health Scientist for a minimum of six months.
- Licensure as an Environmental Health Scientist must be completed within one year of hire or employment will be terminated.
- Must possess a valid Utah State Driver’s License with a good driving record and be capable of independently operating a motor vehicle.
- Must be physically capable of moving about on construction work sites and under adverse field conditions.
- May be required to complete a pre-employment background check.
Physical Demands
Eighty percent of the work is performed in a field setting, including inspections of public facilities, climbing water tanks, evaluating soil test holes, bending, collecting samples, hiking to springs and wells, and performing inspections and soil sampling on underground storage tanks. Hand-eye coordination is necessary to operate testing instruments, computers, and equipment. Twenty percent of the work is office-based, involving report writing, telephone communication, and public meetings.
The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands to operate objects or controls, reach with hands and arms, sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk, hear, and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and focus adjustment.
Work Environment
The employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions, near moving mechanical parts, in high or precarious places, and is occasionally exposed to wet or humid conditions, fumes, airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.