Environmental health officer sample resume

Augie Cramer

28 Cellar Rd
Surface Paradise WA 6000
T: (08) 4003 7996
M: 0405 504 045
E: a.cramer@email.com

Professional Overview

I am a qualified professional environmental health officer, with a solid background in local government. A passionate advocate for sustainable environmental health programs, I have experience in overseeing a wide range of environmental health measures, from recycling to immunisation programs. A dedicated worker with a strong sense of public duty, I seek a role where my skills can be utilised to help effect positive change.

Education

Employment History

Meadow Council extends from the Victorian border to Eurobodalla in NSW.


Responsibilities:

• Monitor standards pertaining to food safety and prep in food business premises
• Investigate environmental pollution reports
• Assist in the management of domestic wastewater systems, solid waste management services, recycling, and hazardous waste
• Organise local immunisation programs
• Oversee housing standards
• Promote and enforce the Public Health & Wellbeing Act and Council policy
• Liaise with public health consultants on key policy decisions
• Prepare reports for Council, and implement Council resolutions
• Work with marketing department to engage community in public health education programs
• Foster and uphold relationships with a variety of key public and private stakeholders
• Apply relevant legislation to ensure business and residential compliance
• Keep up-to-date on latest research on modern environmental health practices

Achievements:

• Contributed to the Council’s ‘Clean Council Award’ in 2010 for excellence in environmental health management
• Introduced annual Carpool Day and carpooling website
• Developed comprehensive curb recycling program
• Devised annual Fridgeswap initiative

Healthwise provides consulting advice to local councils on effective ways to implement sustainable environmental policies.


Responsibilities:

• Devised strategies to improve and protect public health, and to improve health services
• Conducted research and advised local councils on any public health queries
• Researched local government areas, social policy, demographics and medical sociology to identify where more sustainable environmental policies would be effective
• Liaised with state and local government health officials on proposed environmental and health services legislation
• Developed effective lifestyle promotion programs, including events

Achievements:

• Developed strong negotiation and report writing skills
• Was a key contributor to policy discussions with federal government in the wake of the NSW floods
• Developed core understanding of the interrelationship between environmental services and health services

Other Skills/Qualifications

• Member of NSW Infectious Disease Control Committee
• Driver’s licence, class C
• Bronze Medallion

Personal Interests

I enjoy surf lifesaving, swimming and bushwalking.

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