Title:  Healthy Building Specialist/Senior Healthy Building Specialist (Hybrid Work Schedule)

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF JOB:

The Healthy Building Specialist provides technical expertise on a wide range of public health concerns that may arise in public, private and home settings such as indoor air, radon, mold, occupational health, elevated blood lead levels, methamphetamine contamination, noise, and general housing issues. This position performs site assessments, conducts investigations, and provides guidance and consultation to the public, businesses, and other agencies.  This position will collaborate and proactively engage with both internal and external partners and stakeholders to find interventions and solutions, and will recommend appropriate policies related to environmental, health, and safety issues. In addition to bringing technical expertise, this position will bring regulatory knowledge, innovative thinking, initiative, relationship building and strong communication skills to help creatively solve problems and address emerging health issues.

This is a technical specialist with 'limited' or 'intermediate' experience in which the employee is learning and mastering skills that require closer oversight from supervisor and senior level employees to ensure they are fulfilling job responsibilities and following program procedures.

DUTIES:

• Healthy Homes and Buildings: Drawing from a combination of statutory requirements and policy while implementing both creative and innovative thinking, the specialist works with home and building owners to actively investigate and address challenging housing and building related issues such as mold, lead, indoor air quality, radon and other conditions directly impacting the quality of indoor living. May be called upon to conduct special projects and prepare special studies and reports.
• Methamphetamine Contamination Response: Understands and interprets the Colorado Methamphetamine Regulations (6 CCR 1014-3) and responds to public complaints and concerns related to methamphetamine contamination.
• Community Outreach, Collaboration and Partnership Building: Participates in community outreach activities and provides educational presentations to promote understanding and support on a variety of indoor air quality and safety topics. May also lead internal teams and serve as a technical resource for Arapahoe County Public Health (ACPH) staff. Responds to resident and business complaints, concerns, and questions related to environmental health issues in workplace or home settings, assists with problem resolution, and provides technical guidance. Actively participates in meetings with professional and business groups concerning industrial hygiene, healthy homes, and hazardous materials matters. Represents and actively engages ACPH in local, regional, and state workgroups and coalitions. 
• Program and Policy Development: Interprets rules and regulations and promotes strategies and principles into programs, policies, or project initiatives that result in reduced health inequities and improved health outcomes. May present to ACPH Leadership, Board of Health, Board of County Commissioners and/or other elected officials as well as be called upon to review legislation, offer comment and advocate for an industry specific issue, particularly regarding healthy housing issues. 
• Data Analysis and Management: Gathers and analyzes information to make data driven decisions with a focus on equity, environmental justice and health disparity considerations to strategically direct limited resources. 
• Use of Industry Specific Equipment: Uses testing equipment and special measuring devices for the determination of airflow rates, noise, radon, mold, lead and other physical factors in workplace and home settings.  May measure airborne concentrations of dust, gases, and mists using air sampling instruments and collection devices. Will evaluate, interpret, and prepare reports related to testing results.
• Leadership and Training: May act as the coordinator for an internal Healthy Building Team and train staff to respond to indoor building public health issues.
• Budget and Grant Funding Opportunities: Develops and manages the program budget and reviews program expenditures. Identifies contracts, grants, other funding opportunities and prepares written application and documentation for program associated grants. Manages program specific grant budgets, deliverables, and associated activities, as appropriate.

REQUIREMENTS:

Education and Experience:  

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental health, industrial hygiene, occupational health, physical or chemical sciences, or a related field.
• A minimum of 3 years of relevant professional experience.
• Any equivalent combination of education and work experience that satisfy the requirements of the job will be considered. 

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Master’s degree in industrial hygiene, occupational health, environmental health, public health, or related field.
• Familiarity with reading, understanding, and training on Safety Data Sheets (SDS).
• Knowledge of equity and social justice principles and practices, and an understanding of the effects of place, race, and policy and systems-based inequities on marginalized communities and populations.
• General familiarity with EPA, OSHA, HUD and ACGIH rules and guidelines as well as Colorado’s Methamphetamine Regulation (6 CCR 1014-3) and Regulation 19 (Lead Based Paint Abatement).
• Experience or familiarity with the principles and practices of public health and/or environmental health.
• Experience in grant writing.
• Relevant credential related to indoor environmental quality, environmental health or building science are a plus but not required.

Pre-Employment Additional Requirements:

• Must successfully pass pre-employment testing which includes an acceptable motor vehicle record (MVR) and background check.
• Possession of a valid Class “R” Colorado Driver’s License or the ability to obtain one within two weeks of appointment.

Post-Employment Requirements:

• This position requires reliable transportation and the ability to operate motor vehicles.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Work is primarily conducted indoors with occasional time spent in an outside environment.
• May require work in industrial and construction areas.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The following are some of the physical demands commonly associated with this position.

• Spends 50% of the time sitting and 50% of the time either standing or walking.
• Requires ability to lift, carry, pull, or push sampling equipment occasionally up to 50 pounds.
• Requires the ability to work outdoors in all types of weather conditions and ability to walk and navigate on all types of terrain.
• Occasionally climbs, stoops, kneels, balances, reaches, crawls, and crouches while performing work duties.
• Requires the sufficient hearing and speech ability to communicate verbally in response to inquiries, complaints, and to speak to large groups of people in an educational presentation.
• Requires manual dexterity to operate computer equipment and sampling equipment.
• Requires color vision to distinguish titration/chemical reaction to color changes. Requires correctable vision to observe sampling activities and conduct investigations of health situations.
• Incumbent experiences occasional exposures to disease, toxic compounds, pesticides, gases, and fumes.
• This role may require wearing of PPE (personal protective equipment) on construction sites and in other hazardous environments when necessary, including facial mask/respirator, protective clothing, hard hat, safety goggles/glasses, and closed toed, slip-resistant shoes. Must demonstrate knowledge of and proficiency in use of PPE.

Definitions:

• Occasionally: Activity exists less than 1/3 of the time.
• Frequently: Activity exists between 1/3 and 2/3 of the time.
• Constantly: Activity exists more than 2/3 of the time.