Environmental Health Specialist

2 weeks ago


North Chicago, Illinois, United States VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION Full time
Job Summary

The Environmental Health Technician (Preventive Medicine) plays a critical role in identifying and mitigating potential environmental health and communicable disease risks. The employee ensures that Lovell FHCC and Naval locations and activities comply with relevant regulations and standards to protect public health and safety.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provides sanitation inspection capabilities for food service facilities, berthing spaces, retail stores, barber/beauty shops, childcare facilities, gyms, laundries, recreational, swimming pools, water systems, and other areas for general sanitation as requested.
  • Conducts regular drinking water quality inspections. Analyzes halogen, pH and bacterial content of potable water systems and sources ashore (and afloat, as requested).
  • Works with Navy Facilities personnel to recommend appropriate environmental control measures including pesticide application.
  • Establishes and executes periodic schedules for sanitation inspection targets. Periodically reviews facilities lists for new inspection targets and changes.
  • Provides regular reports of all activities to leadership.
  • Conducts bacteriological testing for water and ice sources. Provides food sanitation training to military and civilian personnel.
Environmental and Preventive Surveillance
  • Conduct exposure monitoring and surveillance activities for recruits, students, and customers of FHCC to include:
  • Maintains the latent tuberculosis treatment database, reporting all discrepancies to the Preventive Medicine Officer (PMO).
  • Ensures all division rosters for all preventive appointments for recruits are continuously tracked and results maintained and documented during recruit training and transfer to subsequent duty stations.
  • Performs entry and quality assurance of Military Readiness Reporting System (MRRS) data entries for all divisions going through Recruit Training Command.
Regulatory Reporting and Administration
  • Analyze and evaluate collected data, noting trends and anomalies that may signal increased risk of communicable disease, or successes in disease prevention.
  • Completes daily entries of relevant data in the following electronic databases:
  • Navy Disease Reporting System
  • Tuberculosis Surveillance Database
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Database
  • Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Database
  • Blood Donors and Viral Markers Database
  • Communicable Disease Summary Database for Infection Control
  • Health Care Worker Surveillance (Immunizations and TST)
  • Medical Readiness Reporting System (MRRS)
  • Defense Occupational Environmental Health Readiness System (DOEHRS)
  • ESSENCE
  • Illinois Disease Surveillance System


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