Job Description
Salary: $34.96 - $42.72 Hourly
Location : West Allis, WI
Job Type: Temporary (non-benefitted)
Job Number: 2025-00320
Department: Health Department
Division: Community Environmental, Housing, & Health Services
Opening Date: 03/27/2025
Description A Southwest Suburban Health Department (SWSHD) Environmentalist is a public facing professional responsible for the health and safety of residents and visitors to the jurisdictions we support (West Allis, Greenfield, West Milwaukee, Greendale). Environmentalists not only enforce health and safety regulation, but they also identify risk factors between people and in specific spaces. The Environmentalist is fully engaged in the health department's retail and restaurant inspection program, nuisance complaints, lead risk assessing, weights and measures, as well as other environmental health programs. Good judgment and decision-making skills are required.
The SWSHD Part Time Environmentalist recommends and assists in developing and maintaining environmental health programs. This person provides input on the operations of the program, assists other full-time staff with inspections as needed, writes inspection reports, compiles data regarding programs, and submits required assessments/documentation that is relevant to the work performed.
Examples of Duties - Retail (Restaurant) Food Inspection, licensing, sampling, and complaints
- Pool/Whirlpool: Testing, Inspection, licensing, and complaints
- Certified Lead Risk Assessor/Lead Poisoning Prevention: Environmental lead testing
- Food/Waterborne Outbreak Investigations
- Humane Animal/Rabies Quarantine and Control/Dangerous Dog Investigations
- Environmental Health Administrative Duties (program standards, state programs: self-evaluations/self-assessments, standardization, grants, Healthspace billing/renewals/licensing, environmental health website management, etc)
- Vending Licensing and Inspection
- Healthy Homes (mold, radon, asbestos, air quality, indoor pests) Inspections/Complaints/Investigations
Qualifications If not already REHS/RS credentialed, eligible for certification through the National
Environmental Health Association (NEHA)within 1 year of hire.
Bachelor of Science Degree or Master's Degree in Environmental Health or related field, or currently demonstrating progress toward degree completion.
Benefits include: Time off Bank with the ability to accrue up to 25 days in one year to be used at your discretion with management approval; nine (9) paid holidays; eligibility for health insurance the first of the month following thirty (30) days of service with choice of a PPO Plan or High Deductible Health Plan (with optional participation in a Health Savings Account) - both plans are contributory and cover the employee and his/her family; fully paid dental insurance covering the employee and his/her family, with eligibility the first of the first of the month following thirty (30) days of service; a dual pension system comprised of the Wisconsin Retirement Fund* and Federal Social Security (both of which are contributory); a fully paid Life Insurance Program* with coverage in the amount of the employee's annual salary adjusted to the next highest one thousand dollars, with the option for additional coverage; an educational reimbursement plan for the pursuit of job related courses including personal and professional training opportunities and professional organization memberships; voluntary benefit programs consisting of vision, Flexible Spending Benefits for Dependent Care and Medical Reimbursement, Section 457: Deferred Compensation, Treasury Direct Payroll Savings Plan for Savings Bonds, and other various benefits including, but not limited to, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Wellness Program, Armed Services Reserve Training, and Federal Loan Program. For more detailed benefit information click
*The Wisconsin Retirement Fund and Life Insurance Program benefits are provided according to plan guidelines of the State of Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds. City of West Allis, WI
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