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Department: Department Of Agriculture
Agency: Food Safety and Inspection Service
Sub Agency: Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA
Job Announcement Number:
FSIS-MMP-2009-0537
Consumer Safety Inspector 10
Salary Range: 51,345.00 - 66,747.00 USD per year
Open Period: Wednesday, March 04, 2009
to Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Series & Grade: GS-1862-10/10
Position Information: Full-time Permanent
Promotion Potential: 10
Duty Locations: 1 vacancy - Cumming, GA
Who May Be Considered:
Current FSIS Employees Nationwide and USDA Career
Transition Eligibles (CTAP).
Job Summary:
This is an excellent opportunity for those
seeking
a greater challenge and responsibility in a
position directly
involved in protecting public health. Here's what to
expect:
SPECIFIC VACANCY INFORMATION: CSI, GS-1862-10, SJ-519
Establishment: P-243, Tyson Foods, Inc. located
in FORSYTH County.
Work Schedule: This is a Relief position.
Species: Multiple
As a CSI, you will ensure that regulated
establishments produce a
safe product by executing appropriate inspection
methods, determining
noncompliance with regulatory requirements,
documenting noncompliance
and initiating enforcement action, where warranted.
Key Requirements:
- Please register with USAJOBS! FSIS is
integrated with the USAJOBS system.
- Must be a CURRENT FSIS Employee or USDA
Career Transition Eligible-CTAP
Major Duties:
As a CSI, you will ensure that regulated
establishments produce a
safe product by executing appropriate inspection
methods, determining
noncompliance with regulatory requirements,
documenting
noncompliance and initiating enforcement action, where
warranted.
In your position as a CSI, you will verify that
meat and poultry
slaughter and/or processing establishments'
Sanitation Standard
Operating Procedures (SSOP)and Hazard Analysis
and Critical Control
Point (HACCP) Plans meet regulatory requirements
and are being
executed effectively to prevent unsanitary
conditions and
adulteration of product.
You will review records, observe plant operations
and conduct hands-
on verification to ensure compliance with
regulatory requirements.
You will prepare detailed documentation
(Non-Compliance Records)of
noncompliance with regulatory requirements. You will determine
when regulatory control action is necessary. You will assess
whether the plant's corrective or preventative
actions are
acceptable and effective, if there are trends in
noncompliance, or
if enforcement action is warranted.
You will conduct regulatory oversight activities
inside plants in
matters relating to other consumer protections
(e.g., economic
adulteration and misbranding).
As a Consumer Safety Inspector, you will have
contact with plant
managers, owners and others to explain legal and
regulatory
requirements, discuss operation of the plants'
SSOP, HACCP plan and
other food safety programs. You will communicate on and defend
determinations on noncompliance issues and
discuss plans for
addressing non-compliance.
You will also work with a variety of
individuals to resolve problems, clarify
differences of
interpretation concerning HACCP and other food
safety or consumer
protection requirements and you will advise other
Agency inspectors,
supervisors and officers on inspection and
enforcement matters for
which you are involved.
In addition, you may conduct various samplings,
surveys and tests
to obtain pertinent data on potential problem
areas, industry
trends, or other issues of current interest to the
Agency. You may
be involved in performing health and safety
verification sampling
and tests for detection of specific microbes
(e.g., salmonella,
listeria, etc.), residues or contaminants. You may also
perform
direct, structured sampling involving Protein Fat
Free (PFF),
undeclared species, undeclared ingredients or
suspected economic
violations involving net weight or labeling.
Qualifications:
Specialized Experience for the Consumer Safety
Inspector (CSI)
positions:
In order to meet the specialized experience
requirement, you will need to have completed 52
weeks of
progressively responsible specialized experience
at the next lower
grade level within 30 days of the closing of the
vacancy
announcement.
Specialized experience is experience working with the
Federal Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products
Inspection Acts in order to
inspect meat, poultry and egg products. This experience
also
includes working with basic SSOP and HACCP
principles and practices
in order to verify plant HACCP and SSOP responsibilities,
performing
basic mathematic and elementary statistical
concepts and methods to
perform testing and sampling procedures and
experience in reaching
and interpreting conclusions.
If you currently hold or have previously held a
permanent federal
position at the GS-10 or higher, you are
considered a "non-
competitive" eligible and may apply on-line
to this announcement
and/or be considered by applying to the Voluntary
Reassignment
System.
To receive consideration for this position, under
the Voluntary
Reassignment System,.
Form 4335-3 must be submitted for
noncompetitive consideration (reassignment,
change to lower grade,
or noncompetitive re-promotion). Noncompetitive applicants submit
a hard copy Form 4335-3, Employee Request for
Reassignment within
Field Operations.
Completed forms should be submitted to: USDA,
FSIS, HRFO Internal Placement Systems Section, Butler Square West,
4th Floor, 100 N Sixth Street, Minneapolis,
MN
55403.
How You Will Be Evaluated:
HOW WILL MY TOTAL APPLICATION BE EVALUATED?
There are several parts of the application
process that affect the
overall evaluation of your application: the
applicant assessment
questions, the core questions and your resume. This
automated
application system simplifies the application
process by replacing
the former KSA job-element questions with the
on-line applicant
assessment questions.
Your resume is an integral part of the
process
for determining if you meet the basic
qualifications of the position
and whether you are found to be best qualified. It
is therefore
important to explain what you did and how you did
it, rather than
just listing your current and former employers.
Applicants are evaluated in accordance with Merit
Staffing
procedures which govern Status candidates. All are rated on the
extent and quality of experience, education and
training relevant to
the duties of the position. An automated scoring system based on
the on-line application process is used. Before any certificate
can be issued to the selecting official, the
resume is reviewed
carefully by an HR Specialist to assure that (a)
minimum
qualification requirements are met, (b) the
resume supports the
answers provided to the job-specific questions
and (c) that your
resume addresses experience and
education relevant to this position.
To preview questions please
click here.
Benefits:
BENEFITS:
You may participate in the Federal Employees
Health Benefits
program, with costs shared with your employer. More
info:
http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/jobextrainfo.asp#FEHB.
Life insurance coverage is provided. More info:
http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/jobextrainfo.asp#life
New employees are automatically covered by the
Federal Employees
Retirement System (FERS). If you are transferring
from another
agency and covered by CSRS, you may continue in this
program. More
info:
http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/jobextrainfo.asp#retr
You will earn annual vacation leave. More info:
http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/jobextrainfo.asp#VACA
You will earn sick leave. More info:
http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/jobextrainfo.asp#SKLV
You will be paid for federal holidays that fall
within your
regularly scheduled tour of duty. More info:
http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/jobextrainfo.asp#HOLI
Other Information:
Condition of Employment:
This position has a training program requirement
as a condition of
employment. If
selected, you must successfully complete a 2-3 week
training program at a designated location which
may require travel
outside the duty location for an extended period. The training you
will attend is called the Food Safety Regulatory
Essentials (FSRE).
The type of class you will attend will be based
on your assignment.
For example, if your assignment covers raw
products, you will attend
the two week course for raw products. If your assignment covers not
shelf stable, ready-to-eat/not ready-to-eat
products, you will
attend the three week course. You must begin the training within 90
days of the effective date of your selection, and
you must
successfully complete it within 12 months of the
effective
date of your selection. Failure to successfully complete the
training may result in returning you to your
former position, or
like position at the same or lower grade
(depending on availability
and the needs of the Agency) or removal from Federal
Service.
Multiple selections: This announcement may be
used to fill
additional, like vacancies should any occur in
the announced duty
location.
Salaries in some locations may be higher than the
salary listed in
this announcement due to locality pay. For a listing of locality
pay areas, pay tables and counties within the
locality pay areas: http://www.opm.gov/index.asp
The law prohibits political recommendation for
employment or other
personnel actions (including promotion, reassignment,
detail, etc.)
in the competitive service. Federal agencies may not accept or
consider such recommendations (either oral or
written) from members
of Congress, elected State and local government
officials, political
party officials, or others based on political
affiliation.
FEDERAL LAW REQUIRES ALL EMPLOYERS TO VERIFY THE
IDENTITY AND
EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY OF ALL PERSONS HIRED TO
WORK IN THE UNITED
STATES. FSIS
utilizes E-Verify to verify identity and employment
eligibility by providing to the Social Security
Administration (SSA)
and, if necessary the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS)
information from each new employee's Form I-9 to
confirm work
authorization. E-Verify
cannot be used to pre-screen job applicants
or to re-verify current employees and may not
limit or influence the
choice of documents presented for use on the Form
I-9. If you have
concern that there has been a violation of the
E-Verify program or
you feel you have been discriminated during the
verification process
based on your national origin or citizenship
status, contact the
Office of Special Counsel at 1-800-255-7688 (TDD:
1-800-237-2515).
For more information on E-Verify you may contact
DHS at 1-888-464-
4218.
EEO/DIVERSITY POLICY:
The USDA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and
prohibits
discrimination in all its programs and activities
on the basis of
race, color, national origin, age, disability and
where applicable,
sex, marital status familial status, parental
status, religion,
sexual orientation, genetic information,
political beliefs,
reprisal or because all or part of an
individual's income is derived
from any public assistance program. (Not all prohibited bases apply
to all programs).
Persons with disabilities who require alternative
means for communication of program information
(Braille, large
print, audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA's TARGET Center at
202-720-2600.
This Agency provides reasonable accommodation to
applicants
with disabilities.
If you need a reasonable accommodation
for any part of the application and hiring
process, please
notify the agency.
Decisions on granting reasonable
accommodation will be on a case-by-case basis.
To file a complaint of discrimination, write
USDA, Director,
Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Ave. SW, Washington,
DC
20250-9410 or call (800)795-3272 (voice) or
(202)720-6382 (TDD).
How To Apply:
COMPLETED ON-LINE APPLICATION INCLUDES:
Registration with USAJOBS, including answering
any questions and
submitting an on-line resume with USAJOBS.
Answers to all vacancy-specific questions
(Completed for each job).
Answers to core questions the first time you
apply to our upgraded
system.
Applicants who do not respond to the on-line
vacancy questions and
who do not submit a supporting resume will be rated
ineligible.
Applicants can check their general status, as it
is updated by going
to USAJOBS. Because
of these capabilities, the Human Resources
Division will no longer send email or hardcopy
notifications ("non-
select letters") to applicants regarding the
outcome of on-line FSJO
vacancy announcements.
Completed applications for this vacancy must be
received no later
than midnight, U.S. Eastern time zone, on the closing
date. If
applying on line poses a hardship to any
applicant, the contact
person listed on the announcement will provide
assistance to help
you apply or provide alternative methods. Applicants
may contact the
servicing human resources office during core
business hours(8:00
a.m.
to 3:30 p.m. central time) prior to the closing
date.
Required Documents:
WHAT OTHER DOCUMENTS ARE NEEDED?
CURRENT FSIS EMPLOYEES DO NOT NEED TO FAX or MAIL
ADDITIONAL
DOCUMENTS (i.e., SF-50, Transcripts, Performance
Appraisals or
DD214).
If you claim CTAP eligibility, please provide a
copy of your
most recent performance appraisal (at least
"fully successful"
or
equivalent) and proof of eligibility, i.e., a RIF
separation
notice or Certification of Expected Separation
and a SF-50 noting
current position, grade level and duty location.
If hard copy documents are being submitted by you
for career
transition assistance, the documents must be
received via fax during
the USAJOBS registration process.
Faxing Supporting Documentation:
The next step of the application process is
to fax all the required
supporting documentation specified in the
Required Documents section
of this vacancy announcement. You do not need to
have all of your
supporting documentation submitted in order to
continue with the
online portion of the application process. Please carefully follow
the instructions below to ensure your supporting
documents are
properly faxed and received. All required documents must be
received by midnight Eastern Time on the closing
date of the vacancy
announcement.
***Not all of the document types listed will
pertain to you; only
submit documents needed to complete your application package. For
example, Schedule A Certification document must
only be
submitted by individuals applying based on
eligibility for
appointment due to a disability. The SF-50 is a form current and
former Federal employees submit to document their
Federal employment
status.
FAX INSTRUCTIONS:
1. If you
have previously faxed supporting documentation the status
of those documents will indicate Received. There is no need
to resubmit documents which show a status of
received unless you are
submitting an updated copy.
(If a document is resubmitted, it
replaces the previous submission, which means the
previous document
is no longer available to the human resources
office. If you are
adding to, rather than replacing a previous
submission, you must
fax both the old document and the new document
for both of them to
be accessible to HR.)
2. You
must use a separate cover sheet for each category of
supporting documentation (i.e., transcripts, SF-50, DD-214). Choose
the document cover sheet(s) you would like to
print by selecting the
appropriate check boxes in the Selected Documents column.
3. Click
the [Print Cover Sheets] button. A window will pop up
containing the fax cover sheet(s) you selected. Print the coversheet
(s). NOTE:
You must be connected to a printer in order to
print the coversheets.
Additionally, you must allow pop-ups.
4. Once
you have reviewed the list of documents and printed any
required fax cover sheets click on [Done]. You will be moved
forward in the application process.
5. Before
faxing your document(s), take care to ensure the document
is legible and all information is complete and
signed, if
necessary. Fax only
documents which are clear and legible.
Original documents with light or faded print
and/or dark or
patterned backgrounds will not be legible upon
receipt. Illegible
faxed documents cannot be used for qualification
or verification
purposes.
6. Place
the corresponding cover sheet on top of the document and
fax the cover sheet and document together to the
fax number
specified on the cover sheet. NOTE:
If you are faxing
documents from more than one category of
supporting documentation,
you must submit them with the appropriate cover
sheet. EACH
DOCUMENT TYPE MUST BE FAXED SEPARATELY under its
corresponding
cover sheet. DO NOT FAX ALL DOCUMENTS UNDER ONE COVER
SHEET. (i.e.,
Transcripts are one type of document; fax all
pages of your
transcript and other education-related documents
under the
transcript cover sheet; the SF-50 is another document type, if
you are faxing more than one SF-50, fax them all under the SF-50
cover sheet.)
7. Be sure
to save these cover sheets in the event you need to re-
fax your supporting documents. Each fax transmission includes a
unique identification number and bar code, which
ensures your
document is processed correctly.
8. You
will receive an e-mail confirming the fax has been
successfully received by Human Resources. You should retain
your e-
mail confirmation and confirmation of your fax
transmittal report as
proof of submission.
Your application will be considered incomplete
and YOU WILL BE
FOUND INELIGIBLE if you fail to submit the
required
documentation as specified under the required
documents section by
midnight Eastern Time on the closing date of the
vacancy
announcement.
Contact Information:
Merri Stellburg
Phone: 800-370-3747 x 8541
Fax: 612-370-2007
TDD: 800-877-8339
Email: merri.stellburg@fsis.usda.gov
Or write:
Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA
Human Resources Operations
Butler Square West, Suite 420C
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Fax: 612-370-2007
What To Expect Next:
After the position closes, qualifications are
evaluated. The best
qualified and non-competitive candidates are
referred to the
selecitng official for consideration.
The United States Government does not discriminate in employment on the
basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political
affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age,
membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.
Federal agencies must provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with
disabilities where appropriate. Applicants requiring reasonable
accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should
contact the hiring agency directly. Determinations on requests for
reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
Send Mail to:
Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA
Human Resources Operations
Butler Square West, Suite 420C
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Fax: 612-370-2007
For questions about this job:
Merri Stellburg
Phone: 800-370-3747 x 8541
Fax: 612-370-2007
TDD: 800-877-8339
Email: merri.stellburg@fsis.usda.gov
Control Number: 1491701
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