Program Manager - Plumbing

How To Apply

Applications are submitted online until the position is filled and/or the posting is closed. After reviewing this job announcement, please click on the link at the bottom of the page to apply online. A resume is required with the application. Further instructions on submission of documents are available in the online application. A resume may not be substituted for an application.

Position Summary

This is a highly-responsible, professional managerial position directing the activities of the Plumbing Program of the Allegheny County Health Department. This includes licensing/registration of plumbers, complaint investigation, permitting/plan review, and compliance enforcement. For regulatory purposes, this position functions as the Department’s Chief Plumbing Inspector.

The employee in this position directs, through subordinate staff, the activities of a professional and technical staff engaged in a variety of duties involving the Plumbing Program. Work involves interpreting laws, rules, and regulations applicable to plumbing and building drainage installations; developing proposed legislation and regulations; and the examination of applicants for journeyman and master plumbers' licenses. Work is assigned in the form of broad goals and objectives, and the employee exercises considerable independent judgment in determining specific goals, objectives, and program priorities. Work is reviewed upon completion by the Deputy Director of Environmental Health through reports and conferences for attainment of goals and objectives and overall program quality.

Overview

Fringe Benefits

• Paid holidays, personal days, vacation and sick leave benefits, medical coverage and dental benefits, a retirement plan, life insurance and a deferred compensation plan after eligibility requirements have been met.
  
  
  

Perks Working for ACHD

• Professional growth through training opportunities (CPR, First AID, Public Health Preparedness, Dignity and Respect, Points of Dispensing, and more); ability to advance in county system; job security; meaningfulness in daily work derived from public service; eligible for federal loan forgiveness; organizational commitment to ACHD’s mission to protect, promote, and preserve the health and well-being of all Allegheny County residents, particularly the most vulnerable.
  
  
  

Duties

• Develops and interprets program policies and procedures and monitors for compliance.
• Develops internal procedures to accomplish program objectives, changes policies and procedures as required or recommends changes to top management.
• Interprets department, state and federal policies and procedures to and consults with other health-related agencies, professional and community groups and the public.
• Collects and analyzes public health data and prepares statistical summaries or reports, to evaluate program effectiveness.
• Prepares or directs the preparation of budgets, establishes expenditure control procedures, methods for administration of grants, and effective employee utilization.
• Establishes and maintains liaison within the Health Department, Federal, State and local agencies, and with health care providers.
• Prepares correspondence and maintains or directs the maintenance of files and official health records.
• Determines the availability of grant monies and assists in the writing of grant proposals.
• Evaluates effectiveness of public health programs.
• Supervises lower-level administrators, professional, technical and clerical personnel.
• Responds to Public Health emergencies as assigned by the Health Department.
• Performs other duties as required or requested.
  
  
  

Knowledge Of

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• The theory, principles, practices and current developments and techniques in the field of public health and nutrition.
• The principles and practices of public administration.
• State and Federal laws and regulations governing public health.
• The functions and resources of Federal and State agencies in the public health field.
• The principles of effective supervision.
• Basic statistics.
• The basic principles and concepts of Health Equity.
  
  
  

Skill In

• Leadership
• Management
• Supervisory Skills
• Report Writing
• Office Management
• Team Building
• Policy Analysis
• Policy Writing
• Microsoft Office
• Public Health
  
  
  

Ability To

• Direct, coordinate and control effectively large public health programs of considerable importance to the community.
• Exercise sound judgment in making decisions.
• Establish effective working relationships with top level representatives of other public or private health related agencies, professional and community groups and the public.
• Collect and analyze public health statistical data and the implications of such data.
• Communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
• Respond to public health emergencies.
  
  
  

Residency: Allegheny County within 1 year.

Veterans' Preference: Will be awarded to eligible candidates.

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