Public Health Technician

SOSi is currently seeking a Public Health Technician to join a large medical support services program in Iraq supporting our U.S. Government customer. The Public Health Technician will be assessing food and water quality at the Embassy Installations by conducting safety inspections and vulnerability assessments.

• Assesses food and water quality at the Embassy Installations by conducting safety inspections and vulnerability assessments.
• Makes sensory evaluations, determinations and recording temperatures of products and food in storage areas.
• Evaluates packaging, and packing requirements in accordance with current standard operating procedures and contractual documents.
• Classifies defects, determining quality of products and preparing food inspection reports.
• Identifies vulnerabilities and unsanitary conditions in food storage facilities and restaurants.
• Evaluates the sanitary conditions of local vendors, e.g. barber shops, beauty salons, hookah lounges, and other establishments.
• Conducts sanitation and vulnerability assessments on Reverse Osmosis Water Processing Units (ROWPU) and bottled water storage facilities.
• Determines water quality based on in-house laboratory testing.
• Conducts preventive medicine and communicable disease control, occupational health, food safety, and disaster response programs.
• Initiates, directs, and conducts preventive medicine and communicable disease control programs.
• Directs and conducts epidemiological investigations of communicable diseases and food borne disease outbreaks and providing recommendations.
• Applies epidemiological and statistical methods to identify and evaluates factors increasing disease morbidity and mortality.
• Manages administrative aspects of tuberculosis and sexually transmitted disease detection and control programs.
• Contributes to the medical facility employee health program.
• Plans/develops a disease vector surveillance program.

• Required and able to obtain Moderate Risk Public Trust (MRPT).
• Associate’s Degree or U.S. Military technical school training certification (4E0X1, 68R, 68S, 94B, 92G, or HM-8432).
  
• Minimum year of experience in the inspection of processed products.
  
• Completion of an accredited public health training program.
  
• Knowledge of general sanitation practices, laws, and regulations governing the food industry.
  
• Knowledge of proper food preparation, safe food handling, sanitation practices, and judgment recognizing abnormalities in food.
  
• Performance of Quality Control tests and/or laboratory tests in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, or pet food industry or other similar environments, assuring that standards are met with products that are consumed by humans or animals.
  
• Certification in Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
  
• Completion of Servsafe Instructor Course and Exam and Registered Servsafe Proctor Course and Exam or course equivalent.