Environmental Health Director
Apply NowCompany: Chatham County, NC
Location: Pittsboro, NC 27312
Description:
Salary : $80,763.00 - $102,974.00 Annually
Location : Pittsboro, NC
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Number: 2024-00223
Department: Environmental Health
Opening Date: 04/22/2025
Closing Date: 5/8/2025 11:59 PM Eastern
FLSA: Exempt
WELCOME TO CHATHAM COUNTY'S APPLICATION PROCESS.
To Apply: Become a part of the best local government in North Carolina click "Apply" in the top right corner.
All sections of the application, including work experience, MUST be completed. Please include the last ten (10) years of employment history. Incomplete applications may be rejected. Applications are stored on a secure site accessible only by authorized personnel. Your application can be saved and used to apply for more than one (1) job opening.
Chatham County is an equal opportunity employer and will consider reasonable accommodations as required by law. Chatham County participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
Chatham County does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for our positions at this time.
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Job Description
Are you ready to make a meaningful impact while advancing your career in a supportive, forward-thinking organization? We're seeking a passionate, strategic, and results-driven Environmental Health Director to join our team.
At the heart of our success is a commitment to work-life balance, career development, and providing exceptional benefits to our employees. If you're eager to lead with purpose, drive positive change, and contribute to a mission-driven team that values people and progress, we'd love to connect with you.
Serves as the Administrator and Director of the Environmental Health Division of the Chatham County Public Health Department. The person in this position is responsible for planning short and long-term objectives for all environmental health programs and for the enforcement of local rules and ordinances, such as the Chatham County Well Construction Ordinance and Chatham County Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Rules. This position provides direction to all division staff, preparing the division's operating and capital outlay budgets, ensuring initial and ongoing training and continuing education for division staff, and setting work standards by developing policy and procedure standards for all division programs. The division head is responsible for all personnel actions including position recruitment, interviewing and selection, counseling and disciplinary actions, reviewing and approving performance agreements, developing position descriptions, recommending position reclassifications, assessing staffing needs, and requesting positions.
Essential Functions
Minimum Qualifications
Five years of experience in professional environmental health work at the Environmental Health Specialist level or above in a health department, including two years of administrative management or supervisory experience.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Physical Requirements
This work requires the occasional exertion of up to 10 pounds of force; work regularly requires sitting, speaking, hearing and repetitive motions, frequently requires touching or feeling and occasionally requires standing, walking, climbing, balancing, reaching, pushing, pulling and lifting; work has standard vision requirements; work requires vocal communication to express or exchange ideas orally; work requires hearing to perceive information at normal spoken levels; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data; work has no exposure to environmental conditions; work is generally performed in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic). On occasions where the Director accompanies field staff, the individual must have the capability to walk long distances over varied terrain and is exposed to the elements, and both hot and cold ambient air temperatures. During fieldwork, including visits to food handling establishments, the Supervisor is subjected to hot and cold temperatures and wet/slippery walking surfaces.
Special Requirements
Must possess a valid North Carolina driver's license.
Must be registered as a Registered Environmental Health Specialist as required by G.S. 90A-52 (Qualifications for registration are described in G.S. 90A-53).
Must complete the Chatham County Legal Requirements for Supervisors within one year of hire and every three years thereafter.
Must complete the Chatham County Leadership Academy program unless exempted due to having had two years of previous supervisory experience.
Chatham County is fully committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) principles and issues this anti-discrimination/EEO compliance clause to support and maintain employee's rights and responsibilities relating to equal employment. The core of equal employment opportunity is the right to work and advance on the basis of merit, ability, and potential, free from prejudice or discrimination. In accordance with the applicable anti-discrimination statutes, executive orders, and other authorities, Chatham County protects employees against discrimination, to the fullest extent of law, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, political affiliation, whistleblower activity, parental status, and military service (past, present, or future), and against retaliation for participation in EEO activity or opposition to discrimination.
Chatham County has over 600 employees who play an important role in planning, designing, and maintaining government programs while delivering good customer service and maintaining fiscal responsibility. Our employees are our greatest asset, and we place a high value on training, so employees are well-educated and well-trained. Sure, while various career opportunities exist, none are as rewarding as working for Chatham County.
We offer a competitive benefits package to full-time employees (working 30+ hours per week) including health care, dental, vision, retirement, 401(k), flexible spending accounts, life insurance, long-term disability, holidays, and paid leave.
To learn more details, visit the on our website.
Location : Pittsboro, NC
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Number: 2024-00223
Department: Environmental Health
Opening Date: 04/22/2025
Closing Date: 5/8/2025 11:59 PM Eastern
FLSA: Exempt
WELCOME TO CHATHAM COUNTY'S APPLICATION PROCESS.
To Apply: Become a part of the best local government in North Carolina click "Apply" in the top right corner.
All sections of the application, including work experience, MUST be completed. Please include the last ten (10) years of employment history. Incomplete applications may be rejected. Applications are stored on a secure site accessible only by authorized personnel. Your application can be saved and used to apply for more than one (1) job opening.
Chatham County is an equal opportunity employer and will consider reasonable accommodations as required by law. Chatham County participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
Chatham County does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for our positions at this time.
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Job Description
Are you ready to make a meaningful impact while advancing your career in a supportive, forward-thinking organization? We're seeking a passionate, strategic, and results-driven Environmental Health Director to join our team.
At the heart of our success is a commitment to work-life balance, career development, and providing exceptional benefits to our employees. If you're eager to lead with purpose, drive positive change, and contribute to a mission-driven team that values people and progress, we'd love to connect with you.
Serves as the Administrator and Director of the Environmental Health Division of the Chatham County Public Health Department. The person in this position is responsible for planning short and long-term objectives for all environmental health programs and for the enforcement of local rules and ordinances, such as the Chatham County Well Construction Ordinance and Chatham County Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Rules. This position provides direction to all division staff, preparing the division's operating and capital outlay budgets, ensuring initial and ongoing training and continuing education for division staff, and setting work standards by developing policy and procedure standards for all division programs. The division head is responsible for all personnel actions including position recruitment, interviewing and selection, counseling and disciplinary actions, reviewing and approving performance agreements, developing position descriptions, recommending position reclassifications, assessing staffing needs, and requesting positions.
Essential Functions
- Serves as the division administrator;
- Provides leadership and direction for all environmental health programs including, onsite wastewater treatment and disposal systems program, well construction (local ordinance) program, food, lodging, and institution programs, childhood lead program, insect and vector control, and swimming pool program;
- Provides leadership and direction for the other areas of environmental health concerns including hazardous waste and environmental epidemiology;
- Develops comprehensive policies and procedures for all environmental health programs;
- Establishes short and long-term objectives for the environmental health program in Chatham County;
- Plans, organizes, and directs the work of the Environmental Health Division field and administrative staff to achieve the goals and objectives of the Public Health Department;
- Counsels, supervises, reviews, and evaluates the performance of all employees in the Environmental Health Division;
- Completes Personnel Actions, including oral or written warnings of unacceptable behavior or failure to meet job requirements, or recommends further disciplinary action to the Public Health Director;
- Responsible for staffing decisions, including interviewing and hiring new employees;
- Recommends compensation levels for new staff based on the academic degree, job experience, and current authorizations from the state to enforce state program rules and regulations;
- Serves as a contributing member of the Public Health Department's management team;
- Establishes goals, objectives, and policies in concert with the Health Director and other department directors;
- Represents and articulates the interests of the division in meetings with the Board of Health, Board of County Commissioners, and other boards or study groups in the county;
- Represents the division and provides community education and increase awareness of environmental health issues by making presentations to civic clubs, schools, etc.;
- Comprehensively administers the laws, rules, and policies the department is charged with applying in their duties;
- Interprets rules and laws;
- Tracks proposed legal amendments;
- Proposes and drafts local rule re-writes;
- Advises the Health Director or consults with the County Attorney regarding legal matters;
- Coordinates and organizes material for legal enforcement actions or other judicial actions involving the division, such as hearings, criminal and/or civil charges against individuals, or injunction requests to the court systems;
- Researches for and prepare the division budget, which is incorporated into the departmental budget;
- Maintains oversight of the division budget during the fiscal year to ensure expenditures and revenues are properly accounted for and budget goals are being met;
- Interacts, cooperates, coordinates activities with, and otherwise acts as a liaison with a variety of other federal, state, local, and private agencies including the EPA, state health and environmental agencies, county planning agencies, county land records office, Sheriff's Office, school systems, District Attorney's Office, District and Superior Courts, public laboratories, and multi-level emergency preparedness & response agencies;
- Coordinates environmental health efforts in departmental response to disease outbreaks, including the planning, response, and implementation of plans for use of division personnel and equipment during these events;
- Prepares and delivers educational sessions to a variety of groups and boards, including peer groups, secondary school and college students, homeowner's associations, business associations (e.g. Realtors, attorneys, etc.), and programmatic conferences;
- Subject to be called upon at any time to help the agency respond to a public health emergency which may include, but is not limited to, outbreak investigations, staffing mass dispensing, or immunization clinics, providing disaster relief, or other incidents (man-made or natural and intentional or non-intentional) as they arise, or any public health response requested by the Health Director;
- May be assigned to staff county-sponsored shelters during disasters, either man-made or natural. Employee must have a plan in place for personal responsibilities that allows them to respond as assigned;
- Serve on committees and task forces as assigned;
- Upon request, represent the Health Director at meetings and act on behalf of the Health Director when directed or assigned;
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
Five years of experience in professional environmental health work at the Environmental Health Specialist level or above in a health department, including two years of administrative management or supervisory experience.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Thorough knowledge of the North Carolina general statutes that relate to public health and environmental health, and for this purpose, utilizes Public Health and Related Laws of North Carolina;
- Thorough working knowledge of a variety of biological and physical science subjects that relate to public health issues in the areas of responsibility of environmental health programs;
- Ability to plan, organize, direct, and administer a large, complex and/or diverse environmental health program;
- Ability to handle more difficult administrative, managerial, and environmental problems, and must be able to establish and maintain working relationships with a wide range of public, private, and community groups and individuals;
- Ability to access current and anticipated community and program needs and to develop and implement programs to meet the needs;
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with County officials, department heads, peers, associates, and the general public.
Physical Requirements
This work requires the occasional exertion of up to 10 pounds of force; work regularly requires sitting, speaking, hearing and repetitive motions, frequently requires touching or feeling and occasionally requires standing, walking, climbing, balancing, reaching, pushing, pulling and lifting; work has standard vision requirements; work requires vocal communication to express or exchange ideas orally; work requires hearing to perceive information at normal spoken levels; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data; work has no exposure to environmental conditions; work is generally performed in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic). On occasions where the Director accompanies field staff, the individual must have the capability to walk long distances over varied terrain and is exposed to the elements, and both hot and cold ambient air temperatures. During fieldwork, including visits to food handling establishments, the Supervisor is subjected to hot and cold temperatures and wet/slippery walking surfaces.
Special Requirements
Must possess a valid North Carolina driver's license.
Must be registered as a Registered Environmental Health Specialist as required by G.S. 90A-52 (Qualifications for registration are described in G.S. 90A-53).
Must complete the Chatham County Legal Requirements for Supervisors within one year of hire and every three years thereafter.
Must complete the Chatham County Leadership Academy program unless exempted due to having had two years of previous supervisory experience.
Chatham County is fully committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) principles and issues this anti-discrimination/EEO compliance clause to support and maintain employee's rights and responsibilities relating to equal employment. The core of equal employment opportunity is the right to work and advance on the basis of merit, ability, and potential, free from prejudice or discrimination. In accordance with the applicable anti-discrimination statutes, executive orders, and other authorities, Chatham County protects employees against discrimination, to the fullest extent of law, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, political affiliation, whistleblower activity, parental status, and military service (past, present, or future), and against retaliation for participation in EEO activity or opposition to discrimination.
Chatham County has over 600 employees who play an important role in planning, designing, and maintaining government programs while delivering good customer service and maintaining fiscal responsibility. Our employees are our greatest asset, and we place a high value on training, so employees are well-educated and well-trained. Sure, while various career opportunities exist, none are as rewarding as working for Chatham County.
We offer a competitive benefits package to full-time employees (working 30+ hours per week) including health care, dental, vision, retirement, 401(k), flexible spending accounts, life insurance, long-term disability, holidays, and paid leave.
To learn more details, visit the on our website.