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Seneca County General Health District Director of Landfill Oversight and Compliance in Tiffin, Ohio
Director of Landfill Oversight and Compliance- Full Time (Salary)
POSITION SUMMARY:
The position will serve to provide a regulatory compliance role, working with facilities for compliance with solid waste handling regulations to reduce potential risks to public health and the environment. Focus of the role will be the active monitoring, investigation, and ensuring regulatory compliance of a sanitary landfill facility as defined by Ohio Administrative Code. This position will report administratively to the Health Commissioner and provide reporting to President of the Board of Health and Chair of the Environmental Committee as directed.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITES:
- Inspect, monitor, and evaluate landfill facilities for all-inclusive compliance with solid waste handling regulations.
- Provide direct feedback and oversight reporting to legal advisors, landfill consultants
- Complete all essential duties of the Landfill Inspectors when the need arises
- Provide technical assistance to businesses about solid waste, hazardous waste, infectious waste, or other pollution prevention measures.
- Respond to inquiries and explain solid and hazardous waste regulatory requirements to county constituents, consultants, engineers, legal counsel, county stakeholders and partners, other state and local agencies, and land use professionals.
- Work cooperatively with program and department staff to cross train, create process workflows, documentation, and use technology to increase program efficiencies and standardize processes.
- Operate field instruments for analysis, field testing and composition of statistical, narrative, and graphical reports including laptop or tablet computers with various software packages and field equipment for waste, hazardous materials, health statistics, or chemical analysis.
- Collect and interpret data from field locations, e.g. landfill gas (methane) and surface waste, sediment, or groundwater samples.
- Compose inspection reports, monthly program reports/presentations, annual reports and update guidance documents as needed.
- Respond to inquiries and complaints associated with the landfill and all emergencies that the health department would respond to as required; which will be 24 hours a day, 7 days a week obligation.
- Manage the Landfill/Waste Management Program budget.
- Provide education and outreach to the public and other groups. This may include workshops, newsletter narratives, and public events. Some after-hour workshops or meetings may be required.
- Coordinate with other environmental health programs, local and state agencies, as well as private industry.
- Attend and host community meetings to present site-specific or chemical-specific information to our diverse population.
- Ensures compliance with existing health standards, codes, regulations, and local, state, and federal laws;
- Ensures compliance with grant auditing requirements;
- Maintains environmental division files and records to ensure compliance with state audits and public records requests;
- Provide effective communication of all information and current trends to all division employees.
EMERGENCIES
When SCGHD responds to an emergency you may be assigned duties that are outside your regular job description. This may involve responding at any time, including nights and weekends, with possible deployment to locations other than the agency or usual field-based work sites. SCGHD implements a robust emergency response capability due to our professional development programming and active participation in emergency drills and exercises.
The successful candidate will be expected to be a member of the NIMS/ICS framework and work professionally and co