Dear Colleagues, Please share the following career opportunity in Lane County, located in Eugene, Oregon. The opportunity closes on Monday, November 4^th, 2019. 

Lane County Public Health has an opening for an Environmental Health Specialist (1 or 2 position B028/B029). This position is primarily responsible for conducting health inspections of restaurants, mobile units, hotels, motels, pools, spas, small drinking water systems, as well as other licensed and non-licensed facilities by the Lane County Public Health Environmental Health program. One of the essential functions of this position is to travel within Lane County to complete scheduled site visits and inspections. For more information and to apply, visit www.Lanecounty.org/jobs 

Lane County Government offers generous benefits. Located in the lush Willamette Valley, flanked on both sides by towering forests, the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area provides a thriving urban center for residents and visitors alike. Learn more about why people choose to work for Lane County. 

Do you have a proven record of accomplishment setting the standard for a safe workplace? Are you able to develop or improve occupational health and safety programs and implement with a tenacious focus? Do you want to work with a fun and collaborative team who will appreciate you for your contributions?

This position is for an entry-level or experienced professional with minimum of 1-3 years related experience. This can include asbestos, lead, mold, industrial hygiene, construction project management and/or safety related duties.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has a full-time opportunity available for an Air Quality Planner (Natural Resource Specialist 4) at Headquarters in Portland, Oregon.

The Oregon Health Authority (OHA), Public Health Division (PHD), Drinking Water Services (DWS)  in Portland, OR is recruiting for an Emergency Preparedness Coordinator to provide drinking water quality and supply activities.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has a full-time opportunity for a Hazardous Waste Technical Assistance and Pollution Prevention Coordinator (Natural Resource Specialist 4) in Portland, Oregon.

The Eugene Water & Electric Board is currently seeking a skilled Safety
Analyst with strong technical skills in collecting, analyzing, interpreting and reporting safety data. This position provides administrative and technical advice to supervisors and employees to ensure safety programs are compliant with state and federal regulations, and EWEB’s safety procedure and processes are successfully implemented. This position works with the Safety Program Manager to advance EWEB’s safety culture.

APPLICATIONS MAY BE OBTAINED AND FILED ONLINE AT:
http://www.eweb.org
Job #201900035
SAFETY ANALYST

The GS12/13 Epidemiologist position for NCEA has posted. The vacancy announcement number is RTP-ORD-DE-2019-0051 and is available to view on https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/541292900. The position covers duty locations in Cinc, RTP, and DC and the open period is 07/31/2019 – 08/14/2019. 

Start Date: January 1st, 2019 (negotiable); 1-year contract with the possibility of renewal

Posted: August 1, 2019

Description: A post-doctoral fellowship is available in a dynamic, rapidly expanding university-based research environment with a team of epidemiologists, biostatisticians and exposure experts. The core activity for this position relate to the refinement of an existing research tool to allow for sex-specific occupational exposure assessment (Principle Investigator: Dr. Vikki Ho). Specifically, we propose to create a female specific job-exposure matrix (JEM) based on the methodology used in the development of the Canadian Job-Exposure Matrix (CANJEM), a newly developed JEM built from expert evaluations of over 30,000 jobs held by about 9,000 men and women. From the female data available in CANJEM, we will create a portrait of occupational exposures experienced by working women in Quebec. The Fellow will be expected to collaborate with other research staff to lead the statistical analyses and to prepare manuscripts for publications. There are also opportunities to collaborate on other research projects at various stages including grant application, study design, data analysis and manuscript writing.

Duration and Location of Appointment: The position is available for one year; applicants will be supported in their application to other sources of funding to extend their fellowship beyond one year. This fellowship is funded by IRSST and the stipend is $42,500 (partially tax-exempt). The locale, Montreal, is the most cosmopolitan and affordable big city in North America. Required Qualifications Applicants must have completed a PhD in Epidemiology, Occupational Health or a closely related area. Candidates should have relevant experience in the area of environment and/or cancer epidemiology, have a good record of publication and show skills in advanced statistical programming with management of SAS, R or STATA. Fellows are required to apply for CIHR fellowship funding during the first year.

Required Documentation: A complete application must contain a cover letter including a summary of relevant experience to date and a CV.

Application Procedure: Interested candidates should email: Emmanuelle Batisse, MSc Research Assistant, CRCHUM emmanuelle.batisse.crchum@gmail.com