State Environmental Health Director

Job Code: 32000112
Salary Grade: NC25
Revision Date: 06/2018

Class Concept

This is administrative and managerial work in directing the statewide environmental health program of the State Board of Health. Employee plans, organizes, manages and directs a diversity of consultative and regulatory environmental health and engineering programs designed to provide the necessary support services to local environmental health programs and to carry out the regulatory programs statutorily vested at the state lever. Responsibilities include the development, recommendation and implementation of new programs as necessary and legislative liaison on laws and regulations proposed. Decisions of most major consequence concern the final interpretation of all state laws, regulations, and model ordinances dealing with environmental health and engineering. Work is performed under the general supervision of the State Health Director and is reviewed through program success in meeting established objectives and goals.

Plans, organizes, manages, and directs a state-wide program of consultative and regulatory environmental health sanitation and engineering; designs and develops environmental health programs with respect to departmental mission and establishes the administrative policies necessary for implementation. Interprets and promulgates the operating policies which apply to all state and federal laws, regulations and ordinances relevant to the program; directs the preparation of draft legislation which will support recommended program additions or modifications; directs the liaison effort with the Legislative search Commission, legislative committees, or other related bodies on environmental health studies or proposed legislation. Directs and coordinates the administration of federal funding programs for water supplies, regional planning, solidwaste-vector control, and other environmental programs. Directs enforcement efforts in the most complex and controversial cases. Appears Before local, state, and federal planning, regulatory, funding, advisory, and governing bodies in support of regional water supply planning, sanitary districts, and other contemporary programs, and to explain programs of environmental health sanitation and engineering designed around environmental variables. Performs related duties as required.

Recruitment Requirements

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Thorough knowledge of contemporary environmental health sanitation and engineering programming and the principles and concepts upon which these are based.
• Thorough knowledge of contemporary environmental health sanitation and engineering technology.
• Thorough knowledge of the state and county laws, regulations, and ordinances which pertain to the enforcement aspects of the program.
• Thorough knowledge of the biological, sociological, and political bases for the laws and regulations being enforced.
• Skill in the decision making process.
• Ability to plan, organize, manage, and direct a statewide program of consultative and regulatory environmental health sanitation and engineering.
• Ability to design and develop environmental health programs with respect to departmental mission and to establish the administrative policies and procedures for implementation.
• Ability to function with tact, efficiency, and sound judgement over a wide range of public and professional contacts in their personnel interaction concerned with program development, consultative services, and enforcement; these contacts include business, industrial, civic, municipal, county, state and federal government, legislative and environmental health officials.
• Ability to communicate clearly in written and oral form.

Minimum Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree with a major in environmental engineering, sanitary engineering, civil engineering or a related engineering curriculum from an appropriately accredited institution and eight years of experience in environmental health sanitation and engineering, including three years in an administrative, supervisory, or managerial capacity; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.