Recruitment #23-5656-01
Date Opened | 6/10/2024 12:00:00 AM |
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Filing Deadline | 7/12/2024 5:00:00 PM |
Salary | $58.31 - $69.77/hour; $121,284.80 - $145,121.60/year |
Employment Type |
Permanent Full-Time Employment
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HR Analyst | Nicole Lewis-Bolton |
Department | Alameda County Health |
Work Location |
Alameda
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THIS IS A NEW ASSEMBLED EXAMINATION. The eligible
list resulting from this examination will cancel any existing list and may last
approximately one year but can be extended.
Applications must be in
the possession of the Human Resource Services Department by 5:00 p.m. on the
Last Day for Filing. Applications will only be accepted on-line.
Supplemental Questionnaire: A properly completed Supplemental Questionnaire
must be submitted with each application. Applications and Supplemental
Questionnaires must be in the possession of the Human Resource Services
Department by 5:00 p.m. on the Last Day for Filing. Failure to submit the
Supplemental Questionnaire will result in disqualification.
THE COUNTY
Alameda County, located on the east side of San Francisco Bay, is California's seventh-largest county. The County employs 9,700 full-time employees and operates on an annual budget of $3.4 billion. Oakland, the County seat, is California's eighth-largest city. One and a half million people call Alameda County home and live in a variety of incorporated cities, unincorporated communities, and rural areas. As a major urban county, Alameda provides a full range of services to its citizens. The County is a blend of culturally and ethnically diverse communities, and its mixture of cosmopolitan and suburban areas provides the perfect environment for families and their active lifestyles. The County offers extensive cultural resources, countless recreational opportunities, and an array of fine public and private colleges and universities.
ALAMEDA COUNTY HEALTH
Alameda County Health is the local government agency that promotes and protects the health and well-being of all who live, work, learn, and play in Alameda County. We coordinate services and cultivate partnerships with community organizations and providers to help ensure access, organize, and deliver health care and services to people with Medi-Cal and without insurance, support resilient communities, and improve health for all. We focus on health equity by developing programs and systemic solutions that reduce disparities for the people and communities we serve.
Alameda
County Health’s departments and programs focus on services and support that
provide care for the whole person.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT
As part of Alameda County Health, the Environmental Health Department protects and enhances people’s health and quality of life by ensuring food and recreational safety, reducing exposure to toxins and diseases, and protecting the quality of our water, air, and environment.
We are environmental protection specialists, food and recreation facilities inspectors, certified hazardous materials and waste specialists, recreational water quality technicians, land and water protection regulators, and vector control biologists.
For more information about the Department of Environmental Health, please visit www.acgov.org/aceh/.
PROGRAMS
Hazardous Materials
Division/Certified Unified Program Agency (CUPA): Incumbents
assigned to CUPA the Hazardous Materials Division/CUPA are responsible for
conducting inspections, routine environmental surveys; permitting, enforcement
and training; investigating potential community health complaints related to
hazardous materials, waste tire or pollution of the waters of Alameda County;
lending technical assistance during emergency response; providing regulatory
oversight evaluating work sites; and ensuring compliance with applicable laws,
and regulations and local ordinances; responding to emergency hazardous
materials incidents within the County’s jurisdiction; documenting, identifying,
assessing risk and advising on clean up.
Local Oversight Program (LOP): Incumbents
assigned to the LOP Division are responsible for providing regulatory and
technical oversight for the routine or frequently seen leaking Underground
Storage Tanks and other contamination sites; Providing review and analysis of
technical data and evaluates the effectiveness of corrective actions at
contaminated sites; Conducting environmental oversight surveys; investigating
potential community health hazards; evaluating sites based on current and
future use; ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations and local
ordinances.
Household Hazardous Waste Program (HHW): Incumbents assigned to the HHW Division will be responsible for employee safety, efficiency and compliance with applicable requirements during operations and service to the public and businesses, including during handling, accumulation, transport and disposal of hazardous waste and materials collected at a Permanent HHW Facilities and for oversight of all activities at temporary events. Duties include: train and supervise Senior Hazardous Materials (HM) Specialists, HM Specialists, Environmental Health (EH) Technicians, EH Maintenance Workers, Clerks and administrative staff and contractor employees to provide good communication and service to the public; material handling, packing and shipping, recordkeeping and reporting compliant with all relevant requirements; arrange for purchase of all needed equipment, supplies, services; determine and implement preventative measures to reduce risk of incident, injury or disruption of service to the public; coordinate on-call response to monitoring system activation and; take a leading role in response to any incident or emergency.
THE VACANCY
The eligible list resulting from this recruitment and selection process will be used to fill vacant positions in the class of Supervising Hazardous Materials Specialist classification. Position designation will result in the selective certification of eligibles who possess the program specific requirements ad determined by the supplemental questionnaire screening. All applicants who meet the minimum qualification for the classification are encouraged to apply with a complete application and supplemental questionnaire.
THE POSITION
Under direction, the Supervising Hazardous Materials Specialist
will supervise and review the work of professional and clerical staff in the
Household Hazardous Waste (HHW), Local Oversight Program (LOP), Solid/Medical
Waste Programs, and Certified Unified Program Agency (CUPA) programs in the
Department of Environmental Health; assist the Chief of Environmental Health and
act in his/her absence; and perform related work assignments as required.
This position is the first level supervisor in the Hazardous
Materials Specialist series. This classification is distinguished from the next
higher level class of Chief, Environmental Health by having responsibility for
the day-to-day activities of a work unit that may include Senior Hazardous
Materials Specialists, Hazardous Materials Specialists, Environmental Health
Technicians, Environmental Health Maintenance Workers, Clerks and
Administrative personnel and contractor employees who are engaged in the collection
and disposal of hazardous household material and/or enforcement hazardous waste
control or environmental protection laws and/or overseeing environmental protection
and remediation projects.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
In addition to meeting the minimum qualifications and knowledge,
skills and abilities listed below, the ideal candidate for this position will
be well prepared to assume a supervisory role that includes managing others,
representing the programs and the Department in interactions with the public
and other agencies.
For more information about the Health Care Services Agency and/or
to view the Annual Budget document, please visit the Agency's website on www.acgov.org/health
The minimum professional requirements for
admission to the competitive assessment process include:
Education:
Possession of a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with
a major in environmental health science, industrial hygiene, physical science,
engineering science or related field. (Certified Hazardous Materials Manager,
Registered Engineer or Registered Geologist is desired for vacancies in the LOP
or CUPA programs.)
AND
Experience:
Either I
The equivalent of one year full-time experience in the class of Supervising
Environmental Health Specialist in the Alameda County classified service.
Or II
The equivalent of two years of experience in the class of Senior Hazardous
Materials Specialist in the Alameda County classified service.
Or III
The equivalent of three years full-time experience in the class of Hazardous
Materials Specialist in the Alameda County classified service or the equivalent
of four years in a position equivalent to the class of Hazardous Materials
Technician including one year of lead or supervisory experience in the Alameda
County classified service. Experience in private sector industries or
consultant firms in one or more of the disciplines associated with hazardous
materials and waste management is acceptable experience. (A post graduate
degree may substitute for one year of the required experience).
License: Possession of a valid California Driver’s License
Special Requirements:
Must be available to work varying shifts, including weekends.
Must be available to work at events held off-site within the county.
Must be able to perform physical work, including outdoors and/or in inclement
weather.
NOTE: The Civil Service Commission may modify the above Minimum Qualifications
in the announcement of an examination.
The most suitably qualified candidates will possess the following
competencies:
The examination will consist of the following steps:
1) A review of candidates' applications to verify possession of minimum
requirements. Those candidates who possess the minimum requirements for the
classification will move on to the next step in the examination process.
2) A review of candidates' Supplemental Questionnaires to select the best
qualified applicants. Those candidates selected as best qualified will move on
to the next step in the examination process.
3), An oral interview examination which will be weighted as 100% of the
candidate's final examination score. The oral interview examination may contain
situational exercises. OR 3) Those candidates who have passed the Supplemental
Questionnaire screening for the class will be placed on the eligible list based
on an evaluation of education, training, and expertise.
CANDIDATES MUST ATTAIN A QUALIFYING RATING ON EACH
PORTION OF THIS EXAMINATION.
We reserve the right to make changes to the announced
examination components.
Alameda County utilizes a Civil Service Selection System founded on merit.
Such a system is competitive and based on broad recruitment efforts and equal
opportunity for qualified applicants to test in an examination process designed
to determine the qualifications, fitness and ability of competitors to perform
duties of the vacant position. Many of our recruitments are targeted and
specific to the needs of a current vacant position, in which case, the eligible
list may be exclusively used for that current vacant position. Other
recruitments may be more broadly used for both current and future vacancies, or
for other alternate jobs with comparable scopes of work.
To learn more about our
recruitment and selection process, please visit the “What You Need to Know”
section of our website, www.acgov.org/hrs.
Applicants will be informed via
e-mail with reasonable notice in advance of any examination process which will
require their attendance.
The following dates are tentative and
subject to change based on the needs of the Agency:
TENTATIVE
RECRUITMENT PLAN: |
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Deadline For
Filing:
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5:00:00 p.m., Monday, June 24, 2024 |
Review of
Minimum Qualifications Review of Supplemental Questionnaire for Best Qualified |
July 1, 2024 July 24, 2024 |
Virtual Oral
Interview Examination: Virtual Oral
Interview SME Rating: Results
Notification: Promulgation
of Eligible List: |
Week of July 29, 2024 Week of August 19, 2024 Week of September 2, 2024 September 18, 2024 |
TENTATIVE SELECTION PLAN: |
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Departmental Hiring Interviews: |
TBD |
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE ANNOUNCED RECRUITMENT
& SELECTION PLAN
Alameda County and the Human
Resource Services Department will make reasonable efforts in the examination
and/or selection process to accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities
and/or medical conditions in accordance/compliance with the State Fair
Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), Federal Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA) Alameda County’s Reasonable Accommodation Policy and applicable statues.
To request an accommodation due to a disability/medical condition during this
or other phases of the examination/selection process, please contact the
assigned Human Resources Representative listed on the job announcement before
the last date of filing. Alameda County requires applicants to provide
supporting documentation to substantiate a request for reasonable
accommodation. In order to qualify for a reasonable accommodation, applicants
must have a disability/medical condition pursuant to the ADA, FEHA and
applicable statues.
For more information regarding our Reasonable Accommodation procedures, please visit our website: www.acgov.org/hrs.
Alameda County offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that affords wide-ranging health care options to meet the different needs of a diverse workforce and their families. We also sponsor many different employee discount, fitness and health screening programs focused on overall well being. These benefits include but are not limited to*:
For your Health & Well-Being
For your Financial Future
For your Work/Life Balance
*Eligibility is determined by Alameda County and offerings may vary by collective bargaining agreement. This provides a brief summary of the benefits offered and can be subject to change.
** Non-exempt management employees are entitled to up to three days of management paid leave. Exempt management employees are entitled to up to seven days of management paid leave.
All notices related to County recruitments for which you have applied will
be sent/delivered via email. Please add @jobaps.com,
@acgov.org, nonreplyalamedacountyhr@acgov.org, and Noreply@jobaps.com as accepted addresses to any email blocking or spam filtering program you
may use. If you do not do this, your email blocking or spam filtering program
may block receipt of the notices regarding your application for recruitments.
You are also strongly advised to regularly log into your County of Alameda
online application account to check for notices that may have been sent to you.
All email notices that will be sent to you will also be kept in your personal
online application account. You will be able to view all of your notices in
your online application account by clicking on the "My applications"
button on the Current Job Openings page.
Please take the steps recommended above to ensure you do not miss any
notices about a recruitment for which you have applied. The County of Alameda
is not responsible for notices that are not read, received or accessed by any
applicant for a County recruitment.
NOTE: All notices are generated through an automated email notification
system. Replies to the email boxes Noreply@jobaps.com and nonreplyalamedacountyhr@acgov.org, are routed to
unmonitored mailboxes. If you have questions, please go to our website at www.acgov.org/hrs. You may also contact the Human Resources Analyst listed on the job
announcement for the recruitment for which you have applied.
Nicole Lewis-Bolton, Human Resources Analyst
Human Resource Services, County of Alameda
(510) 272-6468 • nicole.lewis-bolton@acgov.org
www.acgov.org/hrs
Disaster Service Worker
All
Alameda County employees are designated Disaster Service Workers through state
and local law. Employment with the County requires the affirmation of a
loyalty oath to this effect. Employees are required to report to work as
ordered in the event of an emergency.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Alameda County
has a diverse workforce, that is representative of the communities we serve,
and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of
employment are based on merit, competence, performance and business need.
Alameda County does not discriminate in employment on the basis of: race,
color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national
origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability,
genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation,
parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors protected under
federal, state and local law. Alameda County celebrates diversity and is
committed to creating an inclusive, and welcoming workplace environment.
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