Commercial Shellfish Inspector and Enforcement Lead
Department of Health
Location: Tumwater, WA
Closing date: December 29, 2025
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About the Position:
In this role, you’ll support implementation of the Healthy Environments for All (HEAL) Act, strengthen Tribal partnerships, improve environmental justice outcomes, and ensure safe shellfish harvesting across Washington’s shorelines.
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Some of What You'll Do:
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Conduct standardized public health inspections of licensed shellfish operations—non-tribal and tribal—to verify compliance with state, Tribal, and National Shellfish Sanitation Program (NSSP) requirements.
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Perform pre-operational, routine, certification, and follow-up inspections.
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Review HACCP plans, monitoring records, Harvest Site Certifications, sanitation procedures, and shellfish identification practices to ensure accuracy and compliance.
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Provide technical assistance to operators on regulatory requirements and corrective actions.
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Lead the enforcement program, ensuring all actions include proper citations from WAC, RCW, and NSSP.
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Serve as liaison with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for joint enforcement activities.
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Follow the HEAL Act’s community engagement expectations and conduct environmental justice assessments.
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Coordinate, draft, and track enforcement documents and support consistency across inspectors.
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Process export certificate requests in alignment with regulatory standards.
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Monitor the Shellfish Inbox and support timely responses to inquiries.
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Provide customer service support via the program’s mainline phone.
posted 12.9.2025
Greenhouse Gas Inventory Planner - Climate
Department of Ecology
Location: Lacey, WA
Closing date: January 8, 2025
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About the Position:
In this position, you will lead and coordinate policy assessment of state efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while enhancing inventory reporting. You will manage the flow of critical emissions data across state agencies, including the Department of Commerce, the Utilities and Trade Commission, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Natural Resources. In addition, you will establish emissions calculation processes, develop and refine sector-specific emissions analyses, and ensure the reliability of data in collaboration with your team. Your work will provide actionable insights on greenhouse gas emissions, supporting informed policy decisions and delivering clear, accurate information to both governmental and public audiences.
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Some of What You'll Do:
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Lead the design, implementation, and improvement of methods for assessing greenhouse gas emissions reductions from existing policies and forecasting potential reductions.
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Collaborate with internal and external partners to establish and maintain data-sharing agreements, information flows, and inventory calculation processes.
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Review and analyze state greenhouse gas reduction policies and proposals, providing clear characterizations of their emissions implications.
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Support statewide greenhouse gas inventory reporting, including drafting and reviewing reports and technical memoranda.
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Adapt national and international greenhouse gas accounting protocols to develop sector-specific inventory processes, ensuring relevance to state policy.
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Serve as a subject matter expert and agency representative in interagency working groups and public-facing initiatives on greenhouse gas data and reporting.
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Continuously monitor federal and state legislation, scientific developments, and best practices to maintain up-to-date expertise in greenhouse gas inventory methods.
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Identify gaps in analysis and collaborate with colleagues to improve the State inventory's relevance to policy.
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Create tables, figures, and narrative description in the completion of legislative reports and technical memoranda related to greenhouse gas inventories.
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Provide plain-talked written responses to internal and external correspondence and responses related to Greenhouse Gas Inventory Unit work, including constituent queries, and requests from legislators or the executive branch.
posted 12.9.2025
Department of Ecology
Location: Lacey, WA
Closing date: December 14, 2025 / Open until Filled
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About the Position:
​Everyone deserves a healthy environment and needs access to Ecology’s information and services. Help us reach more of the half million plus people in Washington who speak English “less than very well”. In this role, you will provide crucial support to our environmental programs through guidance, training, and technical assistance, and you will help people connect with language services and builds strategies to reduce barriers to access. Join a unique team in the Office of Equity and Environmental Justice that is working to promote equity across all of the agency’s work.
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Some of What You'll Do:
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Help make Ecology’s information and services accessible to more Washingtonians by shaping the future of our language access program.
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Serve as the agency’s subject matter expert on state language access laws and policies, helping programs understand their responsibilities and supporting ongoing efforts to strengthen and assess compliance across the agency.
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Build staff capacity to improve language access through guidance, training, and technical support.
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Advise and strategize with our environmental programs on how best to reach linguistically diverse communities impacted by our broad range of work.
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Help agency staff quickly and confidently access language services through in-house staff and external vendors.
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Assess progress in our language access program and identify areas for agency growth or improvement.
posted 12.2.2025
Water Quality Restoration Technical Specialist
Department of Health
Location: East Wenatchee, WA
Closing date: Open until Filled
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About the Position:
The Shellfish Growing Area Section is one of two sections within the Office of Environmental Health and Safety aimed at safe shellfish for consumers. The office’s mission is to enhance the health of Washington residents by reducing and preventing human exposure to environmental hazards and disease pathogens. The section evaluates and determines if shellfish harvest is safe on over 350,000 acres within Washington’s marine waters, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Pacific Coast, and coastal embayment's, following state and federal standards.
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Some of What You'll Do:
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Serve as the technical specialist for the Water Quality Restoration Program, focusing on analyzing environmental conditions and water quality data, writing federally mandated reports, conducting fieldwork, recommending follow-up actions to ensure public health is protected, and routinely meeting with external partners on collaborative restoration projects.
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Assist with the management of conditionally approved growing areas and the coordination of conditional and emergency closures when environmental conditions pose health risks.
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Conducting routine marine sampling in Puget Sound by motorboat.
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Support the implementation of the Healthy Environments for All (HEAL) Act within OEHS and EPH, including:
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Working peer-to-peer with Tribal program staff and organizations.
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Supporting Tribal government-to-government obligations.
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Utilizing the HEAL community engagement process.
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Conducting environmental justice assessments for overburdened communities and vulnerable populations.
posted 09.23.2025
Environmental Health Specialist 1 or 2
Chelan-Douglas Health District
Location: East Wenatchee, WA
Closing date: Open until Filled
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About the Position:
The Environmental Health Director (EHD) is directly responsible for overseeing the operation of the Environmental Health Department. The EHD plays a key role on the Chelan-Douglas Health District management team. This team works together to lead the Chelan-Douglas Health District and connect the different lines of effort to prevent disease, promote health, and protect the health and safety of people in our community. The EHD reports to the Deputy Health Administrator and works to implement their leader’s intent. As a senior leader the EHD will regularly brief the Board of Health and work with them to develop or evolve environmental public health policy across the health district. The EHD works closely with the Health Officer in the enforcement of environmental public health regulations.
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Some of What You'll Do:
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Lead the planning, development and evaluation of all Environmental Health (EH) programs consistent with Washington Foundational Public Health Services (FPHS) definitions.
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Advise the Health Officer/Administrator, Deputy Administrator and Board of Health on EH policy, fee schedules, code adoption, and enforcement under RCW 70.05 and RCW 70.46
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Represent CDHD to elected officials, community stakeholders, and partner agencies on environmental health matters.
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Work effectively with neighboring Environmental Health Directors to collaborate and standardize environmental health practices and policies as appropriate for North Central Washington.
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Collaborate with the Washington State Environmental Health Directors (WSEHD) and the Washington State of Local Public Health Officials (WSLPHO) to inform state wide policy and practice.
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Work effectively with Communicable Disease and Epidemiology (CD-Epi) staff to track environmental hazards (such as lead poisoning) and assist in disease or outbreak investigations.
posted 09.13.2025
Environmental Health Specialist 1 or 2
Tillamook County
Location: Tillamook, OR
Closing date: Open until Filled
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About the Position:
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST 1
This 2-level classification series performs sanitarian duties in inspection, investigation and documentation of identifiable environmental health threats and enforcement of Appropriate Oregon Revised Statutes and Oregon Administrative Rules, city, and county ordinances to maintain preventative compliance with regulatory measures; license facilities assigned by contract, agreement, or ordinance; provide consultation or education programs regarding environmental health and safety.
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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST 2
This is the journey-level in the Environmental Health Specialist job series. Incumbents apply considerable knowledge of the techniques and procedures required to independently inspect environmental health projects and identify and resolve compliance issues; has full responsibility for the completion of assigned projects. This classification may direct and train the lower-level classification.
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Some of What You'll Do:
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST 1
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Performs basic technical functions for an Environmental Health Program to investigate and verify compliance with environmental quality regulations and standards; resolves problems within scope of authority and training, duties may vary according to job assignment.
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Inspects and monitors individual and commercial properties, public facilities (to include restaurants, mobile carts, hotels/motels, public pools/spas, daycares, correctional facilities, etc.) and work sites, and investigates environmental quality complaints regarding water resources, food safety, public health, completes technical reports and recommends enforcement actions required for compliance to state, County and federal regulations, policies, procedures, and safety standards.
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Learns to research and troubleshoot problems and complaints to identify appropriate solutions and implement remedies as directed; reviews reports, compiles data, and recommends actions based on data derived from measurements and observations of food, water, and other environmental sources.
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Inspect and evaluate licensed and non-licensed public places to assure compliance to ORS, OAR, city, and county ordinances. Advise owners of any deficiencies; determine corrective measures and implement compliance schedule. Document findings and complete necessary record keeping required. License appropriate facilities; establish and maintain license records.
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Develops operational guidelines and procedures to help the inspectors achieve compliance, increase consistency of inspection practices, reporting and enforcement activities, and improve efficiency during new inspector training.
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Works daily with other compliance staff and permit writers within the Commercial/Industrial Unit. The position regularly interacts with compliance staff from Central Region Office, other Air Quality Program staff, and commercial and industrial facilities. Intermittently, this position interacts with local air agencies, Environmental Protection Agency staff, consultants, local government officials, and the attorney general’s office.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST 2
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Performs a variety of technical functions for an Environmental Health Program to manage and verify compliance with environmental quality regulations and standards; resolves problems within scope of authority and training; duties may vary according to job assignment.
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Independently Inspects and monitors individual and commercial properties, public facilities (to include restaurants, mobile carts, hotels/motels, public pools/spas, daycares, correctional facilities, etc.) and work sites, and investigates environmental quality complaints regarding water resources, food safety, public health, completes technical reports and recommends enforcement actions required for compliance to state, County and federal regulations, policies, procedures, and safety standards.
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Reviews and processes operating permits, license renewals, construction approvals, and certificates of inspection; advises supervisor when problems arise in obtaining compliance to regulatory standards.
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Inventory, survey, inspect and evaluate community and non-community water systems. This may require collection of samples and identifying deficiencies. Work with the operator to implement compliance with state regulation schedules. Document findings and complete required records.
posted 08.25.2025