Environmental Health Program Manager

Department: Environmental Health & Plumbing

Job Status: Full Time  

FLSA Status: Exempt 

Reports To: Environmental Health Director 

Grade/Level: Salaried
Amount of Travel Required: 50% - 80%

Job Type: Regular 

Positions Supervised: Registered Environmental Health Specialist, Environmental Health Specialist in Training, Office Support Specialist, Environmental Health Technicial

Work Schedule: 8 am - 4 pm, M-F, with one-hour unpaid lunch. Work hours, days and times will vary based on work requirements and/or emergencies. Adjusted work schedules available with supervisor approval  

POSITION SUMMARY: Under general supervision of the Environmental Health Director, manages staff time and resources to ensure efficient inspection routines, prompt and thorough plan reviews, and meaningful outreach and training activities for contractors and the public at large.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Reasonable Accommodations Statement: To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Timely, regular, and consistent attendance.


• Project a positive and professional image. Provide respectful customer service to external and internal clients.


• Accurately review and approve plans; authorize issuance of permits and licenses; and compile and submit opinions and recommendations complying with state law and health district policies, procedures, and regulations.


• Provide environmental health program information to others either through formal training or informal communication including interviews with press or podcasts; provide food training programs; distribute educational pamphlets, brochures, and booklets to the public; utilize various types of communication to convey environmental health information; and explain inspection reports and findings.


• Supervise, recommend hiring, promotion, discipline, layoff, etc.; provide direction and scheduling to registered environmental health specialist, environmental health specialist in training, administrative professional, and office support specialist as needed. Responsible for training and development of registered environmental health specialist, and environmental health specialist in training.


• Oversee the scheduling of daily work for self, registered environmental health specialist, and environmental health specialist in training; distribute work evenly among staff, and ensure coverage during absences. Ensure registered environmental health specialist, and environmental health specialist in trainings' work is completed as prescribed by law and health district policy.


• Perform routine and complex inspections, testing, sampling, and plan review in environmental health programs which may include, but not be limited to: food service operations and retail food establishments, vending, schools, parks, camps, swimming pools and spas, housing units, sewage treatment systems, land septage application, private water/wells, solid waste disposal, construction and demolition debris landfills, refuse hauling and/or septage hauling vehicles, vector and rabies control; investigate foodborne or other illnesses and public health nuisances; conduct inspections of housing, water hauling vehicles, body art/body piercing establishments; collect water and effluent samples; perform routine tests according to established health district policy and procedures to enforce state and local laws, and rules and regulations.


• Track and compile inspection and investigation data into reports for the Health Commissioner and Board of Health.


• Build external relationships with our many partner agencies, including: County Engineer, County Sanitary Engineering, Building Regulations, Department of Development, Adult Protective Services, County Recorder, County Archives, and each of the city/township zoning inspectors.


• Maintain grants and funding to reach underserved communities, such as: Water Pollution Control Loan Fund, Ohio EPA Mosquito Grant, Department of Development Community Block Grants, and others.


• Use quality improvement (QI) and performance management (PM) processes and/or techniques to improve the effectiveness of environmental health programs and services including but not limited to creating, implementing, and evaluating performance standards and identifying, implementing, and assessing QI processes.


• Ensuring accuracy of Environmental Health webpages, developing accurate documents/educational materials that are updated/posted on the applicable webpages


• Responsibilities include other duties as assigned including but not limited to Accreditation requirements and responding to emergency events. 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: 

Bachelor's Degree (four-year college or technical school) Required, Field of Study: Environmental Health/Related Science Degree with minimum 45 quarter or 30 semester hours of science 

Experience: 

12 plus months of experience in public health 

Computer Skills: 

Microsoft Office required. Health District Information System (HDIS) obtained upon hire  

License & Certifications: 

• Must have and maintain valid Registered Environmental Health Specialist status with Ohio Department of Health Bureau of Environmental Health and Radiation Protection in accordance with Ohio Revised Code. 


• Valid driver's license. 


• Must possess (or obtain within six months) and maintain the Ohio Department of Agriculture Commercial Pesticide Applicator’s license.   

Other Requirements: National Incident Management System (NIMS)/Incident Command System (ICS) 100, 200, 700.a and 800.b certification to be obtained within six months of hire.  

COMPETENCIES/KNOWLEDGE-SKILLS-ABILITIES (KSA’s):
A. Public Health Tier: 2 – Program Management and Supervisory Responsibilities
B. Organizational Competencies
All GCPH employees are expected to adhere to the mission of: Prevent disease, Promote health and wellness in Greene County and Protect the quality of our environment. In addition, all GCPH employees are expected to meet specified competencies in the following areas:

• Dependability: Demonstrates reliability and trustworthiness and being consistent in performance or behavior.


• Judgement: Ability to apply critical thinking, adapt to change and make evidence-based decisions or form opinions while maintaining ethical performance.


• Communication: Communicate in a respectful manner both written and orally, in person, and through electronic means, with linguistic and cultural proficiency.


• Customer Satisfaction: Ensure the health and safety of our community within my abilities and resources and treat our many, diverse customers with thoughtful listening and respect.


• Quality: Establish and maintain organizational capacity and resources to support continuous quality improvement.
  


• Community Partnership Skills: Works collaboratively with and through groups of people affiliated by special interest, geographic proximity, or similar situation to address issues affecting the well-being of our community


• Data Analytics and Assessment Skills: Ability to identify, collect and evaluate data as it affects the health of our community or population.
  
  

C. Manager/Supervisor/Executive Level Competencies

• People Development: Develops and equips employees with skills, knowledge, and capabilities to attain personal and organizational goals.


• Service Delivery: Understanding of public health business and effectively applying it to community engagement. 
  Performance Management: Practice using performance data to improve the public’s health by Establishes effective and efficient processes that align programmatic priorities with organizational goals, strategies, and our mission.


• Decisions: Exhibits decision making in a fair and equitable way. Decisions are made in a timely manner within the areas of assigned responsibility. 


• Leadership:  Ability to influence and mobile organizations or communities to effective tackle complex challenges in Public Health.
  
  

D. Job Specific Competencies Descriptions of each competency can be found at: Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals | PHF

• Data Analytics and Assessment Skills: (1.1T2, 1.2T2, 1.3T2, 1.4T2, 1.5T2, 1.6T2, 1.7T2, 1.8T2) 
  


• Policy Development and Program Planning Skills: (2.1T2, 2.2T2, 2.3T2, 2.4T2, 2.5T2, 2.6T2, 2.7T2)  
  


• Communication Skills: (3.1T2, 3.2T2, 3.3T2, 3.4T2) 
  


• Community Partnership Skills: (5.1T2, 5.2T2, 5.3T2, 5.4T2, 5.5T2) 
  


• Public Health Sciences Skills: (6.1T2, 6.2T2, 6.3T2, 6.4T2) 
  


• Management and Finance Skills: (7.1T2, 7.2T2, 7.3T2, 7.4T2, 7.5T2, 7.6T2, 7.7T2, 7.8T2, 7.9T2, 7.10T2, 7.11T2, 7.12T2, 7.13T2) 


• Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills: (8.1T2, 8.2T2, 8.3T2, 8.4T2, 8.5T2, 8.6T2, 8.7T2, 8.8T2) 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
N (Not Applicable)
Activity is not applicable to this position.  O (Occasionally)
Position requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0 - 2.5+ hrs./day)  F (Frequently)
Position requires this activity from 33% - 66% of the time (2.5 - 5.5+ hrs./day)  C (Constantly)
Position requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5+ hrs./day) 

Physical Demands 
Stand - C
Walk - F
Sit - F
Manually Manipulate - F 
Reach Outward - F
Reach Above Shoulder - F

Climb - O
Crawl - O
Squat or kneel - F
Grasp - F
Speak - F

Lift/ Carry

0 lbs. or less F 

11-20 lbs.- F
21-50 lbs. - O
51-100 lbs. - N
Over 100 lbs.- N

Push/Pull 

12 lbs. or less - F
13-25 lbs. - O
26-40 lbs. - O
41-100 lbs. - O
50 pounds or more you may request assistance.

Other Physical Requirements 

• Vision (Near, Distance, Color) 


• Sense of Sound - Sufficient to communicate in-person, in the field, and on the telephone. 


• Sense of Smell 


• Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) - gloves, eye, and hearing protection 


• Sense of Balance 

WORK ENVIRONMENT  The employee may be exposed to, must negotiate, use, or work in the vicinity of: materials containing asbestos or other hazardous materials (e.g., mold); hot, cold, humid, or windy weather conditions; extreme non-weather related heat or cold; radiant energy; upset or emotionally distraught individuals; potentially dangerous/fatal infectious diseases; open flames, boiling liquid, hot grease, and other commercial kitchen hazards; sharp kitchen instruments; hazardous driving conditions; bleach, disinfectants, and other industrial cleaning solutions; chlorine and other pool maintenance chemicals; raw sewage, human waste, and other unsanitary materials; heavy equipment, trenches, ditches, and other excavations; ladders, stairs, or scaffolds; environmental conditions which may result in injury from fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, and/or poorly ventilated work areas; crowds; vector borne disease, ticks, and mosquitoes; potentially vicious and rabid animals and their bodily fluids.

BENEFITS

Greene County Public Health pays 90% of Health, Dental, and Vision insurance premiums. The 2026 employee costs for Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance are as follows:

Health Insurance

Employee Only: $45.55 per paycheck

Employee + Spouse: $100.12 per paycheck

Employee + Child(ren): $76.89 per paycheck

Employee + Family: $140.61 per paycheck

Dental Insurance

Employee Only: $1.47 per paycheck

Employee + Spouse: $2.94 per paycheck

Employee + Child(ren): $3.73 per paycheck

Employee + Family: $5.50 per paycheck

Vision Insurance

Employee Only: $0.30 per paycheck

Employee + Spouse: $0.56 per paycheck

Employee + Child(ren): $0.59 per paycheck

Employee + Family: $0.87 per paycheck

Contact Information:

For general questions regarding the position, please contact:

Evan Dillahunt

(937) 505-7523

[email protected]

This posting will be open to internal candidates until 9:00AM on 6/4/2026. This posting will be open to public applicants after 9:00PM on 6/4/2026.