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Department: Department Of Agriculture Agency: Food Safety and Inspection
Service Job Announcement Number:
FSIS-MMP-2009-1012
Food Inspector (Eggs) GS-1863- 8/9
Salary Range: 42,214.00 - 60,612.00 USD /year
Open Period: Monday, July 20, 2009
to Monday, August 03, 2009
Series & Grade: GS-1863-08/09
Position Information: Full-time Permanent
Promotion Potential: 09
Duty Locations: 1 vacancy - Oskaloosa, IA
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!
SPECIFIC VACANCY INFORMATION:
Food Inspector (Processed Products),
GS-1863-8/9, SJ-509
Establishment: 339G, Oskaloosa
Foods located in MAHASKA County.
Work Schedule: Position
primarily egg product inspection but will
also be used in CSI position.
Tour of Duty: District Relief
Species: Egg
The Food Safety and Inspection
Service (FSIS) is a public health
regulatory agency of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Our
mission is to protect consumers
by ensuring that the commercial
supply of meat*, poultry, and egg products moving
in interstate
commerce or exported to other
countries is safe, wholesome and
correctly labeled and packaged.
* The "Food Conservation
and Energy Act of 2008", also referred to
as the "2008 Farm
Bill", was signed into Law on June 18, 2008. The
Farm Bill amends the Federal
Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) to include
Catfish as an amenable species
under the Act.
As a Food Inspector, you will
serve as the Inspector-In-Charge (IIC)
at an egg products plant and
will be responsible for monitoring
processing procedures involving
extensive and technically complex
formulations and/or high volume
operations.
Key Requirements:
- Please register with
USAJOBS! FSIS is integrated with the USAJOBS system.
- FSIS UTILIZES E-VERIFY TO
VERIFY IDENTITY AND EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY.
- THIS IS A PUBLIC TRUST
POSITION REQUIRING A BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION.
- RELOCATION EXPENSES WILL BE
DETERMINED PER FSIS DIRECTIVE 3820.2.
- A SELF-CERTIFICATION
MEDICAL STATEMENT MAY BE REQUIRED.
Major Duties:
As a Food Inspector (Eggs), here
are some of the duties you will
be assigned to do:
You will serve as the
Inspector-In-Charge (IIC) at an egg
products plant and will be
responsible for monitoring processing
procedures involving extensive
and technically complex formulations
and/or high volume operations.
You will prepare and maintain a
variety of reports and records
related to the work such as egg
product surveillance/sampling,
temperature checks,
pasteurization tests, formulations, water
reports, relabeling, incoming
product certificates, and production
logs.
You will select representative
samples for laboratory analysis and
may monitor the shipping and
receiving of tankers of egg products.
As a Food Inspector, you will
have the primary responsibility for
maintaining relations with plant
managers and owners on long-range
development programs for
correcting deficiencies or problem areas
including non-compliance with
regulations, explaining new
procedures, maintenance of
complicated processing equipment,
sanitation, etc.
You will contribute to a
productive and non-discriminatory work
environment.
Qualifications:
For the Consumer Safety
Inspector (CSI) positions, there are two
basic components of your
experience that together define the
qualifications. These components
are:
Time-in-Grade and
Specialized Experience
Time-in-Grade:
In order to meet time-in-grade,
you will need to have
completed 52 weeks at the next
lower grade level within 30 days of
the closing date of this
announcement.
Specialized Experience for the
Food Inspector (Eggs) 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 date of this
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.
Applications for noncompetitive
consideration (reassignment, change
to lower grade, or
noncompetitive re-promotion) may also be
considered under the Voluntary
Reassignment System.
Noncompetitive
applicants who wish to be
considered under the Voluntary
Reassignment system must submit
FSIS Form 4335-3, Employee Request
for Reassignment, in order to
receive consideration.
How You Will 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:
The Federal government offers a
number of exceptional benefits to
its employees. For an overview
of all the benefits programs visit:
Benefit Information.
Other Information:
Condition of Employment: This position requires a National
Security
clearance. Therefore, as a condition of continued
employment, the
incumbent must successfully complete
a background investigation with
a favorable adjudication. Failure to successfully meet these
requirements could lead to
adverse action proceedings including
possible termination.
NOTE: Entitlement to the payment of
relocation expenses will be
determined in accordance with
the provisions outlined
in FSIS Directive 3820.2.
Multiple selections: This
announcement may be used to fill
additional, like vacancies
should any occur in the announced duty
location.
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.
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
A background investigation is a
requirement for this position.
Appointment will be subject to
the applicant's successful completion
of a background investigation
and favorable adjudication.
Failure
to successfully meeting these
requirements could lead to adverse
action proceedings including
possible termination. (Current
employees of the Food Safety and
Inspection Service may already have
the required background
investigation)
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?
If you currently hold or have
previously held a permanent federal
position at the GS-9 or higher,
you are considered a "non-
competitive" eligible and
you may also apply for this vacancy by
applying to the Voluntary
Reassignment list. In order to apply to
the Voluntary Reassignment list
Form 4335-3 must be submitted to our
systems section.
Applications received in
Government postage and fees paid envelopes
will not be considered.
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.
Control Number: 82350915
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