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09/27/2024

Environmental Health Director

Canton City Public Health

Employment with the Canton City Public Health comes with a full array of benefits. We offer comprehensive health insurance, paid vacations, paid holidays, a retirement plan, and sick time.


Applicants must apply at governmentjobs.com. Applicants MUST submit a copy of a valid driver's license or other photo ID along with their application and any other pertinent documentation.

This is an open examination. To be eligible for this position, applicants must be a U.S. Citizen or have a permanent resident card. Applicants must be a High School graduate or possess a G.E.D. and be at least 18 years of age.

Salary: $72,894-$112,986

Job Description

Position Summary:
A member of Canton City Public Health senior management team, this position provides leadership, oversight, and program management for the Environmental Health service area, whose overarching goal is to protect the community’s health through the prevention and control of environmentally related communicable diseases and through the minimization of exposure to environmental health hazards. Examples of delivered programming includes (but is not limited to) food safety, private water systems, sewage treatment systems, rabies control, public health nuisance, school safety, campgrounds, body art and tattoos, vector-borne disease surveillance, pools and spas, and solid and infectious waste. This role oversees the research, funding, programming, and establishment of existing and new programming in this service area.  Ensures that all operations, budget, and programming in Environmental Health are conducted and monitored in a safe, timely, and efficient manner and in accordance with Ohio law, with a focus on customer and community service. The position performs with independence in decision-making and reports to the Health Commissioner.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed.  The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.

Minimum Qualifications and Credentials:

Work Environment

Benefits
This position takes part in a pension plan from the Ohio Public Employment Retirement System. Eligible for insurance (medical, dental, vision, life), paid sick leave, paid vacation and paid holidays. 

     Testing Information

SHOULD TEN OR FEWER QUALIFIED APPLICATION BE RECEIVED, AN EXAMINATION MAY NOT BE REQUIRED UNLESS TESTING IN NEEDED TO MERGE APPLICANTS ONTO AN EXISTING LIST. NAMES WILL BE PLACED ON AN ELIGIBILITY LIST IN ACCORADANCE WITH THEIR APPLICATION FILING DATE. SHOULD MORE THAN TEN QUALIFIED APPLICANTS REGISTER FOR THIS EXAMINATION THOSE APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED OF THE FORMAT, LOCATION, DATE, AND TIME OF THE EXAMINATION.

RATING
Your name will be placed on a list of eligible candidates upon receiving a passing score. Once the list has been established, your name will remain on the list for a period of one (1) year.

     Additional Information

*DISCLAIMER*

All applicants should receive an email from noreply@governmentjobs.com confirming that their application was received. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please contact Civil Service at jobs@cantonohio.gov to confirm that your application went through.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO VETERANS
As provided in ORC 124.23C, any person who has completed service in the uniformed services, who have been honorably discharged from the uniformed services or transferred to the reserve with evidence of satisfactory service, and who is an Ohio resident and any member of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including the Ohio National Guard, who has completed more than 180 days of active duty service pursuant to an executive order of the President of the United States or an act of Congress of the United States may file with the director a certificate of service or honorable discharge (DD-214 – Long version), and upon this filing, the person shall receive an additional credit of twenty percent (20%) of the person’s total grade given in the examination in which the person receives a passing grade.
   
A member in good standing of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including the Ohio National Guard, who successfully completes the member’s initial entry-level training shall receive a credit of fifteen percent (15%) of the person’s total grade given in the examination in which the person receives a passing grade.
 
NOTICE OF DRUG TESTING REQUIREMENT
Pursuant to Civil Service Rules applicants are hereby advised that the position of employment being examined for MAY be subject to a drug test. The results of the drug test may affect the hiring status of any candidate in consideration.
 
NOTICE OF BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION
Be advised that candidates MAY be subjected to a confidential background investigation, including, but not limited to, a criminal record check and driving record check.

ADA COMPLIANCE
Reasonable accommodation in accordance with ADA Compliance will be made available upon request to those qualified applicants in need of it, in order to achieve the essential job functions as described above.
 
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for appointment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, political affiliation, age, type of disability, or any other non-merit factor.

At the City of Canton, we are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. 

BY ORDER OF THE CANTON CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

 Rachel A. Forchione, Director

Anna M. Moeglin, Assistant Director

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