The Department of Health has TWO (2) urgent vacancy located in Wailuku/Kahului, Maui.
THIS JOB POSTING WILL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL 20 APPLICATIONS ARE RECEIVED. PLEASE APPLY IMMEDIATELY AS THIS RECRUITMENT MAY CLOSE AT ANY TIME.
Level III – $4,690 to $5,713 per month (SR-20, Step D to I)
Level IV – $5,076 to $6,177 per month (SR-22, Step D to I)
Note: Hiring rates will be based on availability of funds, the applicant’s qualifications, and other relevant factors.
Food Safety Specialists promote, protect, and maintain a healthy and safe environment for the public. This is accomplished through inspection, education, and enforcement activities to implement the statutes, rules and regulations relating to environmental sanitation, and/or safety programs concerning foods, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices. Work in this series include identifying, mitigating, and preventing disease transmission through improperly prepared foods, contaminated waters and adulteration and/or misbranding of foods, drugs, cosmetics and medical devices.
Food Safety Specialist III: Performs the full range of independent environmental sanitation work assignments in an assigned geographic or defined specialty work area. Food Safety Specialists at this level are required to apply all phases of the sanitation sciences, have knowledge of socioeconomic conditions in the surveillance area, and use tact in the enforcement and interpretation of sanitation laws, rules and regulations.
Food Safety Specialist IV: Plans and organizes the work of a unit of lower-level Specialists; or evaluates, standardizes and interprets program procedures and operations; or functions in a geographically remote area in the development and promotion of an environmental health program; and performs other related duties as assigned.
To qualify, you must meet all of the following requirements:
Education: Graduation from an accredited four (4) year college or university with a bachelor’s degree in one of the physical or biological sciences.
Professional Specialized Experience:
Non-Qualifying Experience: Non-professional technical work experience such as in a vector control program involving work in inspection, investigation, education and enforcement activities relating to the control and/or experimentation of mosquitoes, rodents and other small mammals, flies, fleas and other insects performed in support of the Food Safety Specialist series functions described above is not qualifying.
Quality of Experience: for Level IV, at least one year of experience must be comparable to the next lower level.
Substitution Allowed: Relevant substitutions as described in the Minimum Qualification Requirements will apply (click link below).
The information provided above represents a summary of the Minimum Qualification Requirements. To view the Requirements in their entirety, please CLICK HERE.
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