Public Health Engineer Trainee

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEER TRAINEE

GRADE 13

ORANGE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Applications are now being accepted to fill three (3) positions of Public Health Engineer Trainee at the Department of Health. This position is allocated to the competitive class. The nature of this appointment is provisional pending the outcome of a Civil Service Examination. Civil Service examination will be announced at a later date. The trainee level is used to recruit into the public health engineering field, individuals who demonstrate a career interest in the public health engineering field with County government. Trainees receive on-the-job training while performing increasingly responsible and independent activities in the field of public health engineering as it applies to one or more of the specialized phases of the public health engineering program. Direct supervision may be received from Public Health Engineers or other technical superiors during the training period with final review of all projects by the Principal Public Health Engineer or Senior Public Health Engineer. Trainee appointments are for a period of one year, following which incumbents receiving satisfactory ratings will be advanced to the title of Public Health Engineer without further examination. Does related work as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Either:

A. A Bachelor's Degree in engineering; OR

B. Possession of a license to practice as a professional engineer in New York State.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENT: Possess and maintain a valid driver’s license.

Note: Your degree or credits must have been awarded by a college or university accredited by a regional, national, or specialized agency recognized as an accrediting agency by the U.S. Department of Education/U.S. Secretary of Education. If your degree or credits were awarded by an educational institution outside the United States and its territories, you must provide independent verification of equivalency. A list of acceptable companies who provide this service can be found on the Internet at http://www.cs.ny.gov/jobseeker/degrees.cfm. You must pay the required evaluation fee.

2025 STARTING SALARY: County Employees- As per CSEA contract for Grade 13

New Employees: Grade 13: $33.6493/hr;

$69,990.54 annually (40-hour work week)

*Following one year of successful traineeship, incumbent will advance to Grade 14, Step 03 – Engineering Differential:

Effective Jan 2026: $41.7804 per hour ($86,903.23/annually)

CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION IS A REQUIREMENT FOR APPOINTMENT

EXAMINATION NOTICE TO BE ANNOUNCED AT A LATER DATE

FINAL CANDIDATES MUST SUBMIT TO A FINGERPRINT CHECK AND CRIMINAL HISTORY AND BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION. COSTS RELATED TO SUCH INVESTIGATION SHALL BE BORNE BY THE APPLICANT.

SEND APPLICATION, RESUME AND TRANSCRIPT, BY SEPTEMBER 17, 2025, TO:

Kiara Maldonado

Orange County Department of Health

124 Main Street

Goshen, NY 10924 

OR EMAIL: kmaldonado@orangecountygov.com

Employment applications can be downloaded from Orange County’s website. Please visit www.orangecountygov.com and follow the link to the Department of Human Resources page. Or download directly here: Application for Employment Application

An Equal Opportunity Employer www.orangecountygov.com