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Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Opening Date: September 15, 2026
Closing Date: September 28, 2026
Job Class Code: 4362
Grade: 56 (Professional & Technical)
Salary: $112,507.20 - $159,328.00 per year
Position Number: 02000-3039
Location: Augusta
This position allows for partial telework with management approval.
Currently, this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or STEM OPT extensions.
About this Role:
Join the Maine CDC's Environmental Health Program (EHP) and use your medical expertise to make a direct impact on the health of Maine communities, especially for children. As part of a close-knit team, you will work in a collaborative and engaging environment to perform innovative environmental public health work.
In this role, you'll serve in two meaningful capacities:
1. Lead the health team for the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (CLPPP)
2. Serve as a medical expert on environmental and chemical exposures
This is a managerial medical position in a public health setting, where your leadership, clinical insight, and collaboration will help protect and improve lives across the state. The work can be performed with a clinical or an administrative medical license.
Flexible and/or reduced schedules (to 32 hours per week) may be negotiated for candidates who want to maintain a clinical role outside of State government.
Make an Impact: What You'll Do
Lead the Health Team for the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
As the health team leader for CLPPP, you will guide and support a small but impactful team while helping to ensure children across Maine receive appropriate testing and care, working towards the goal of eradicating childhood lead poisoning in Maine.
In this capacity you will:
• Oversee monitoring of children's blood lead levels, including confirmatory and follow-up testing, based on current state and federal guidelines, best practices, and CLPPP standard operating protocols;
• Supervise a team of two nursing staff;
• Inform healthcare providers about blood lead testing requirements, in-office lead testing options, and protocols for the medical management of childhood lead poisoning cases;
• Collaborate with other state offices and state clinical organizations to perform education and outreach and to advance CLPPP priorities;
• Deliver presentations and grand rounds on childhood blood lead testing and lead exposure;
• Develop lead poisoning health case management protocols and procedures;
• Partner with managers and epidemiologists to monitor rates of blood lead testing in various populations.
Serve as a Medical Expert in Environmental Health
You will also play a key role in addressing environmental and chemical exposure concerns across the state, working with the Environmental Toxicology and Environmental Epidemiology Units within EHP.
In this capacity you will:
• Provide medical guidance to toxicologists, epidemiologists, other state agencies, and Maine residents;
• Support responses to both routine and acute environmental, occupational, and chemical exposures;
• Assist with consultations, reporting, and surveillance for notifiable environmental health conditions, including carbon monoxide poisoning and exposure to polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS), also known as "forever chemicals";
• Assist toxicologists in responding to community or individual concerns when environmental exposures approach clinical significance;
• Collaborate across disciplines, sometimes in time-sensitive situations, under the direction of the Senior Environmental Health Program Manager.
Additional Ways You'll Contribute:
• Infrequently, and only in extreme circumstances, provide on-call coverage or work outside of regular business hours to ensure timely and appropriate management of severe lead poisoning or other serious environmental health incidents.
Minimum Qualifications:
Graduation from an accredited Medi