THE COUNTY
Alameda County, located on the east side
of San Francisco Bay, is California's seventh-largest county. The County
employs 9,700 full-time employees and operates on an annual budget of $3.4
billion. Oakland, the County seat, is California's eighth-largest city. One and
a half million people call Alameda County home and live in a variety of
incorporated cities, unincorporated communities, and rural areas. As a major
urban county, Alameda provides a full range of services to its citizens. The
County is a blend of culturally and ethnically diverse communities, and its
mixture of cosmopolitan and suburban areas provides the perfect environment for
families and their active lifestyles. The County offers extensive cultural
resources, countless recreational opportunities, and an array of fine public
and private colleges and universities.
ALAMEDA COUNTY HEALTH
Alameda County Health is the local
government agency that promotes and protects the health and well-being of all
who live, work, learn, and play in Alameda County. We coordinate services and
cultivate partnerships with community organizations and providers to help
ensure access, organize, and deliver health care and services to people with
Medi-Cal and without insurance, support resilient communities, and improve
health for all. We focus on health equity by developing programs and systemic
solutions that reduce disparities for the people and communities we serve.
Alameda County Health’s departments and
programs focus on services and support that provide care for the whole person.
- The
Behavioral Health Department provides mental health and substance use
services for people with Medi-Cal and without insurance and supports
people along their path to wellness, recovery, and resilience.
- The
Environmental Health Department works to keep our air, water, and food
safe; it regulates, protects, and promotes the health of everyone in
Alameda County by enforcing environmental health codes to reduce exposure
to toxins and diseases.
- The
Public Health Department focuses on community and population-level health,
preventing and addressing root causes of health inequity across a range of
communicable and chronic diseases.
- Alameda
County Health also provides services through Housing and Homelessness
Services, Emergency Medical Services Agency, HealthPAC, and Healthy
Schools and Communities.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Environmental Protection Division (EP): As part of Alameda County Health, the
Environmental Health Department protects and enhances people’s health and
quality of life by ensuring food and recreational safety, reducing exposure to
toxins and diseases, and protecting the quality of our water, air, and
environment. We are environmental protection specialists, food and recreation
facilities inspectors, certified hazardous materials and waste specialists,
recreational water quality technicians, land and water protection regulators,
and vector control biologists.
For more information about the
Department of Environmental Health, please visit www.acgov.org/aceh
Hazardous Materials Division/Certified
Unified Program Agency (CUPA): Hazardous
Materials Division/Certified Unified Program Agency (CUPA): Incumbents assigned
to the Hazardous Materials Division/CUPA are responsible for conducting
inspections, permitting, training/outreach and enforcement; investigating
incidents related to hazardous materials, waste tire or pollution of the waters
of Alameda County; lending technical assistance during emergency response;
providing regulatory oversight; and ensuring compliance with applicable laws
and regulations
Local Oversight Program (LOP): Incumbents assigned to the LOP
Division are responsible for providing regulatory and technical oversight
for the routine or frequently seen leaking Underground Storage Tanks and other
contamination sites; Providing review and analysis of technical data and
evaluates the effectiveness of corrective actions at contaminated sites;
Conducting environmental oversight surveys; investigating potential community
health hazards; evaluating sites based on current and future use; ensuring
compliance with applicable laws and regulations and local ordinances.
Household Hazardous Waste Program (HHW):
Incumbents assigned to
the HHW Division will be responsible for employee safety, efficiency and
compliance with applicable requirements during operations and service to the
public and businesses, including during handling, accumulation, transport and
disposal of hazardous waste and materials collected at a Permanent HHW
Facilities and for oversight of all activities at temporary events. Duties
include: train and supervise Senior Hazardous Materials (HM) Specialists, HM
Specialists, Environmental Health (EH) Technicians, EH Maintenance Workers,
Clerks and administrative staff and contractor employees to provide good
communication and service to the public; material handling, packing and
shipping, recordkeeping and reporting compliant with all relevant requirements;
arrange for purchase of all needed equipment, supplies, services; determine and
implement preventative measures to reduce risk of incident, injury or
disruption of service to the public; coordinate on-call response to monitoring
system activation and; take a leading role in response to any incident or
emergency.
Food & Recreational Health Program: Incumbents within the Food and
Recreational Health Program are responsible for conducting complex inspections
of retail food facilities, temporary food events, swimming pools, spas,
recreational water facilities, and other regulated establishments; reviewing
and processing plan review submittals for food and recreational facilities;
evaluating compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws,
regulations, and ordinances; providing guidance and technical assistance to
operators regarding safe food handling, sanitation, and recreational water
safety requirements; investigating foodborne illness complaints and suspected
outbreaks; responding to public health emergencies related to food and
recreational water; preparing detailed inspection and enforcement reports;
issuing permits and notices of violation; coordinating enforcement actions when
necessary; mentoring and training assigned staff; and serving as a program
resource to ensure protection of public health and safety.
Solid Waste Program – Body Art and
Medical Waste:
Incumbents within the Solid Waste Program are responsible for oversight of body
art facilities and medical waste generators, with duties such as conducting
complex inspections of solid waste handling and disposal facilities, transfer
stations, landfills, body art establishments, and medical waste generation,
storage, treatment, and disposal sites; reviewing and processing plan review
submittals, permits, and registrations; evaluating compliance with applicable
federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and ordinances; investigating
complaints related to solid waste, body art practices, and medical waste
management; responding to illegal dumping and improper disposal incidents;
providing technical assistance and regulatory guidance to facility operators
and practitioners; preparing detailed inspection and enforcement documentation;
issuing notices of violation and coordinating corrective actions; assisting
with emergency response related to solid or medical waste incidents; mentoring
and training assigned staff; and serving as a program resource to ensure
protection of public health, worker safety, and environmental quality.
THE VACANCY
The vacancies are located in the above
program areas however, the eligible list resulting from this recruitment and
selection process will be used to fill vacant positions with or without program
specific requirements and/or specialty designations in this classification.
Position designation will result in the selective certification of eligibles
who possess the program specific requirements as determined by the supplemental
questionnaire screening. All applicants who meet the minimum qualification
for the classification are encouraged to apply with a complete application and
supplemental questionnaire.
THE POSITION
Under general direction, performs high
level work associated with a specialty program (e.g., compliance, plan review,
consumer protection, mobile food vending, solid waste, medical waste, hazardous
material, land use, recreation, vector control, and other related programs) and
may have a solid waste generalized environmental health district; and to
perform related duties as assigned.
The Senior Environmental Health
Specialist typically has specialized program responsibility that may require
certification training and/or experience over and above that expected of the
entry-level class of Registered Environmental Health Specialist.
The position differs from the
Supervising Environmental Health Specialist in that the Senior Environmental
Health Specialist does not have supervisory responsibility over other
Environmental Health Specialists. The Senior Environmental Health Specialist may
function as a lead person in a technical area, providing training and guidance
to Environmental Health Specialists or other environmental health
classifications. In addition to the specialized program responsibility, the
Senior Environmental Health Specialist may be assigned to a generalized
environmental health program district (i.e., food, water, waste, housing,
recreation, institutions, hazardous material, vector control).
THE IDEAL
CANDIDATE
In addition to meeting the minimum
qualifications and knowledge and skills below, the ideal candidate will have:
- A track
record of making sound, analytical decisions.
- Strong
effective communication (verbal/written) and interpersonal skills.
- Strong
customer service skills.
- A
history of exercising personal integrity.
- Ability
to solve problems.
- Strong
leadership in technical areas.
- Planning,
organizing, and time/work management skills.
- Ability
to establish effective working relationships.
- Knowledge
of provisions of State and local ordinances and regulations relating to
environmental health and sanitation.
- Ability
to explain and interpret rules, regulations, and laws and policies.
For a detailed listing of the essential
responsibilities and core competency requirements for this position,
please click here for the job description.
The
examination will consist of the following steps:
1) A review of
candidates' applications to verify possession of minimum requirements. Those
candidates who possess the minimum requirements for the classification will
move on to the next step in the examination process.
2) A review of
candidates' Supplemental Questionnaires to select the best qualified
applicants. Those candidates selected as best qualified will move on to the
next step in the examination process.
3), An oral
interview examination which will be weighted as 100% of the candidate's final
examination score. The oral interview examination may contain situational
exercises.
CANDIDATES MUST ATTAIN A QUALIFYING RATING ON EACH
PORTION OF THIS EXAMINATION.
We reserve the right to make changes to the announced
examination components.
Alameda County
utilizes a Civil Service Selection System founded on merit. Such a system is
competitive and based on broad recruitment efforts and equal opportunity for
qualified applicants to test in an examination process designed to determine
the qualifications, fitness and ability of competitors to perform duties of the
vacant position. Many of our recruitments are targeted and specific to
the needs of a current vacant position, in which case, the eligible list may be
exclusively used for that current vacant position. Other recruitments may be
more broadly used for both current and future vacancies, or for other alternate
jobs with comparable scopes of work.
To learn more about
our recruitment and selection process, please visit the “What You Need to Know”
section of our website, hrs.alamedacountyca.gov.
All notices related
to County recruitments for which you have applied will be sent/delivered via
email. Please add @jobaps.com, @acgov.org, nonreplyalamedacountyhr@acgov.org, and Noreply@jobaps.com as accepted addresses
to any email blocking or spam filtering program you may use. If you do not do
this, your email blocking or spam filtering program may block receipt of the
notices regarding your application for recruitments. You are also strongly advised
to regularly log into your County of Alameda online application account to
check for notices that may have been sent to you. All email notices that will
be sent to you will also be kept in your personal online application account.
You will be able to view all of your notices in your online application account
by clicking on the "My applications" button on the Current Job
Openings page.
Please take
the steps recommended above to ensure you do not miss any notices about a
recruitment for which you have applied. The County of Alameda is not
responsible for notices that are not read, received or accessed by any
applicant for a County recruitment.
NOTE: All
notices are generated through an automated email notification system. Replies
to the email boxes Noreply@jobaps.com and nonreplyalamedacountyhr@acgov.org,are
routed to unmonitored mailboxes. If you have questions, please go to our
website at hrs.alamedacountyca.gov. You may
also contact the Human Resources Analyst listed on the job announcement for the
recruitment for which you have applied.
Nicole
Lewis-Bolton, Human Resources Analyst
Human Resource
Services, County of Alameda
(510) 272-6468
• nicole.lewis-bolton@acgov.org
hrs.alamedacountyca.gov
Disaster Service Worker
All Alameda County employees are
designated Disaster Service Workers through state and local law. Employment
with the County requires the affirmation of a loyalty oath to this
effect. Employees are required to report to work as ordered in the event
of an emergency.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Alameda County has a
diverse workforce, that is representative of the communities we serve, and is
proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment are based
on merit, competence, performance and business need. Alameda County does not
discriminate in employment on the basis of: race, color, religion, sex
(including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political
affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic
information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental
status, military service, or other non-merit factors protected under federal,
state and local law. Alameda County celebrates diversity and is committed to
creating an inclusive, and welcoming workplace environment.
