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State Environmental Health Director pay range

State of North Carolina · class code 32000112

$89,596 to $201,593 per year$89,596$201,593MINIMUM · MIDPOINT $145,594 · MAXIMUM

Published per year range, State of North Carolina

Class code
32000112
Pay group
NC25
Pay unit
Year
State
North Carolina

Class specification

The OSHR class specification for this class is published by North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR). The passages below are quoted from it as published, not paraphrased, and cut to their opening sentences; the full specification is the authority on duties and qualifications. It was last revised 06/2018.

What the state says the job is

This is administrative and managerial work in directing the statewide environmental health program of the State Board of Health. Employee plans, organizes, manages and directs a diversity of consultative and regulatory environmental health and engineering programs designed to provide the necessary support services to local environmental health programs and to carry out the regulatory programs statutorily vested at the state lever. Responsibilities include the development, recommendation and implementation of new programs as necessary and legislative liaison on laws and regulations proposed. Decisions of most major consequence concern the final interpretation of all state laws, regulations, and model ordinances dealing with environmental health and engineering.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

Thorough knowledge of contemporary environmental health sanitation and engineering programming and the principles and concepts upon which these are based. Thorough knowledge of contemporary environmental health sanitation and engineering technology. Thorough knowledge of the state and county laws, regulations, and ordinances which pertain to the enforcement aspects of the program. Thorough knowledge of the biological, sociological, and political bases for the laws and regulations being enforced. Skill in the decision making process. Ability to plan, organize, manage, and direct a statewide program of consultative and regulatory environmental health sanitation and engineering. Ability to desi ...

Minimum qualifications

Bachelor's degree with a major in environmental engineering, sanitary engineering, civil engineering or a related engineering curriculum from an appropriately accredited institution and eight years of experience in environmental health sanitation and engineering, including three years in an administrative, supervisory, or managerial capacity; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. <h2

Quoted from the OSHR class specification, read 2026-10-21.

Where this comes from

North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR) publishes this figure in OSHR salary schedules, joined to Class Specifications. Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.

Job titles and their salary grades come from the Class Specifications, joined to the salary schedule.

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