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Department: Department Of Agriculture Agency: Food Safety and Inspection
Service Job Announcement Number:
FSIS-MMP-2009-1069
Job Title: Supvsry Compliance Investigator - Little Rock, AR - PHHRS
Salary Range: 80,402.00 - 123,519.00 USD /year
Series & Grade:
AP-1801-05/05
Promotion Potential: 05
Open Period:
Friday, August 07, 2009
to Friday, August 28, 2009
Position Information:
Full-time Permanent
Duty Locations:
1 vacancy - Little Rock, AR
Who May Be Considered:
Current Federal employees with
status, reinstatement eligibles, CTAP
eligibles, ICTAP eligibles, VEOA Eligibles, 30% or more disabled
veterans, Former Action Volunteers
(Peace Corps, VISTA, etc.);
Individuals with disabilities who
are eligible under special
appointing authorities.
Officers on active duty in the
Public Health Service (PHS)
Commissioned Corps are encouraged
to apply. (See the "How to
Apply"
portion of this announcement.)
If you are not eligible to apply
under this announcement, please see
announcement number
FSIS-MCE-2009-0178 that is open to the public.
Please carefully review
information on specialized experience
requirements.
Job Summary:
This is an excellent opportunity
for those seeking greater
responsibility!!!
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 package.
*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.
This position is covered by the
Public Health Human Resources
(PHHRS) Demonstration Project.
Effective July 19, 2009, FSIS
began operating under the PHHRS, a Pay
Banding and Pay for Performance
Demonstration Project, in which non-
bargaining unit positions will be
classified by career path,
occupational series, and pay bands
rather than the traditional
General Schedule (GS) grades in
the Federal Service. The AP-03 pay
band is equivalent to the GS-9/11
levels, the AP-04 pay band is
equivalent to GS-12/13 and AP-5S
is equivalent to GS-13/14.
PHHRS will offer flexibility to
offer exceptional candidates higher
salaries than most other Federal
agencies. Additionally, employees
will be eligible to receive an
annual pay increase based upon
performance.
For more information on PHHRS,
including information on its pay
tables and how it will benefit
employees, please visit:
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Careers/PHHRS_Demo_Project/index.asp
As a Supervisory Compliance
Investigator with Office of Program
Evaluation, Enforcement and Review
(OPEER), Compliance and
Investigations Division you will
play a major role in assuring the
safety of our nation's meat and
poultry supply.
Your Division will investigate
violations of the inspection
laws; controlling violative
products through detentions, civil
seizures, and voluntary recalls;
and help ensure that appropriate
criminal, administrative, and
civil sanctions are carried out.
Your Division will also provide
regulatory control over a
multitude of businesses engaged in
transporting, storing and
distributing meat, poultry and egg
products after they leave
Federally inspected
establishments.
Key Requirements:
- This announcement may be used
to fill one or more vacancies.
- FSIS UTILIZES E-VERIFY TO
VERIFY IDENTITY AND EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY
- Please check your online
status throughout the hiring process at usajobs
- Fax supplemental documents to
fax number on the fax cover sheet!
- Current FSIS employees need
not submit DD214, SF-50 or Performce Appraisal
Major Duties:
As Supervisory Compliance
Investigator you will exercise complete
responsibility and authority for
supervision of investigators who
perform a full range of public
health regulatory, food defense, and
other consumer protection program
activities. You will assure
Compliance with Federal laws and
regulations governing the safety,
wholesomeness, and proper labeling
of meat, poultry and egg products.
As Supervisory Investigator in
OPEER here are some of your duties:
1.
Maintain a close working relationship and liaison with
appropriate Agency Staff, other
government food safety and food
defense agencies; state, local,
national and international level
officials; OIG and other regulated
industry.
2.
Play a key role in planning and implementing Agency goals and
priorities as they relate to food
safety, food defense, regulatory
enforcement and public health.
3.
You will participate in the review and assessment of both state
and foreign compliance activities.
4.
You will serve as a supervisor with responsibility for the
direction and control of all
functions of the Division within a
large metropolitan area having a
greater concentration of operations
and a more competitive industry
character.
5. You will be required to prepare
investigative reports that result
in letters of warning, placement
of firms on record keeping
requirements, or which are
referred for criminal prosecution.
6.
Determine resource needs of the sub-region in terms of funding,
personnel, materials, and
facilities. Determine ways to
optimize
utilization of personnel and other
resources, particularly when
presented with unexpected event or
new demands.
7. Applies, adheres to and
promotes Agency equal opportunity and
civil rights policies.
Qualifications:
1.
Time In Grade: In order to
meet time-in-grade requirements, you
will need to have completed 52
weeks at the next lower grade level.
2.
Specialized experience for AP-5S, GS-13/14 equivalent:
Specialized experience at this
level is defined as enforcement
and investigative work rather than
inspection activities. It
includes working with enforcement
actions, applying investigative
methodology, documenting case
files, administrative enforcement
recall activities, preparing case
investigation files, and working
with and understanding the
enforcement process. This experience
must demonstrate a knowledge of
meat and poultry inspection laws and
regulations; the ability to
monitor food product and maintain chain
of custody, collect and evaluate
evidence, recognize and resolve
violations of the Meat Inspection
Act, Federal Poultry Products
Inspection Act, and/or Egg
Products Inspection Act; and
the ability to gather facts,
analyze data and develop written
reports.
There are two basic components of
your experience that together
define the qualification
requirements. These components are:
1) Time in grade AND
2) Specialized experience
How You Will Be Evaluated:
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 ranking
system, based
on the on-line application process
is used. Before a 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.
Please note that your resume must
thoroughly support your responses
to the applicant assessment
questions. High self-assessment in
the
applicant questions that is not
supported by information in your
resume may eliminate you from
best-qualified status, and subsequent
referral to the selecting
official.
There are several parts of the
application process that affect the
overall evaluation of your
application: The applicant
assessment
questions, the core questions,
supplemental documentation submitted,
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. Therefore, it is important to explain
what you did and how you did it,
rather than just listing your
current and former employers.
To
preview questions please click here.
Benefits:
The Federal government offers a number
of exceptional benefits to
its employees. The following Web
addresses are provided for your
reference to explore the major
benefits offered to most Federal
employees.
Flexible Spending Accounts - The
Federal Flexible Spending Accounts
Program (FSAFeds) allows you to
pay for certain health and dependent
care expenses with pre-tax
dollars. For information visit:
https://www.fsafeds.com/fsafeds/index.asp
Health Insurance - The Federal
Employees Health Benefits Program
offers over 100 optional plans.
For information visit:
http://www.opm.gov/insure/health/index.asp
Leave - Most Federal employees
earn both annual and sick leave. For
additional information visit:
http://www.opm.gov/oca/leave/index.asp
Life Insurance - The Federal
Employees' Group Life Insurance Program
(FEGLI) offers: Basic Life
Insurance plus three types of optional
insurance, for additional
information visit:
http://www.opm.gov/insure/life/index.asp
Long Term Care Insurance - The Federal
Long Term Care Insurance
Program (FLTCIP) provides long
term care insurance for Federal
employees and their parents,
parents-in-law, stepparents, spouses,
and adult children. For additional
information visit:
http://www.ltcfeds.com/
Retirement Program - Almost all
new employees are automatically
covered by the Federal Employees
Retirement System (FERS). FERS is a
three-tiered retirement plan. The
three tiers are: Social Security
Benefits, Basic Benefit Plan,
Thrift Savings Plan. For additional
information visit:
http://www.opm.gov/retire/index.asp
Other Information:
SPECIAL CONDITIONS EFFECTING THIS
ANNOUNCEMENT:
This position requires a National
Security/Critical-Sensitive
clearance (with access to secret
information). 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 a possible termination.
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.
RELOCATION:
ENTITLEMENT TO THE PAYMENT OF
RELOCATION EXPENSES WILL BE DETERMINED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS
OUTLINED IN FSIS DIRECTIVE
3820.2.
HOW MUCH TRAVEL IS REQUIRED?
Varies, up to 50% in some
locations. There will be some
overnight
travel. Applicant must have a valid driver's
license.
This position has promotion
potential to AP Band 4 (GS-12/13
equivalent.). Future promotion is not guaranteed and
depends on
demonstrated performance and
ability to assume additional
responsibility. The selectee will not be required to
reapply or
compete again for promotion to the
full performance level of this
position.
EEO/DIVERSITY POLICY:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) 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 (voice and TDD). To file a complaint of discrimination,
write
to USDA, Director, Office of Civil
Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue,
W.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410, or call (800)795-3272 (voice)
or
(202)720-6382 (TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and
employer.
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION:
This Agency provides reasonable
accommodation to applicants with
disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for
any part
of the application process, please
notify the Agency prior to the
closing date. Decisions on granting reasonable
accommodation will
be on a case-by-case basis.
How To Apply:
1. Answers to all core questions
(Completed when registering on-line
in USAJOBS as part of the initial
application process)
2. Answers to all vacancy-specific
questions (Completed for each
job)
3. Your on-line resume. Resumes are entered into USAJOBS. Resumes
can be copied and pasted into the
personal information area of your
application from other word
processing documents at any time prior
to the closing date.
4.
Any supplemental(supporting)documents needed.
Applicants who do not respond to
the on-line vacancy questions and
who do not submit a supporting
on-line resume will be rated
ineligible.
Required Documents:
If your eligibility is based on
education, please submit a copy of
your official transcripts and/or
course slips. These items should
include course title, school
name/location, date completed, grade,
and number of credits.
If you claim CTAP/ICTAP 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 you are claiming eligibility
for consideration under a
noncompetitive special hiring authority, you will
need to provide
the appropriate supporting
documentation to verify eligibility.
Reinstatement eligible's and
Federal government employees, that are
not current FSIS employees, must
submit their SF-50 in order for
their status to be verified.
If you claim Veterans Preference, you must
provide a copy of your DD-
214 showing an honorable
discharge. For veterans receiving
compensation please provide SF-15 and supporting documentation
from
the VA along with your DD-214.
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.
***NOTE! Not all of the document
types listed will pertain to you;
only submit documents needed to
complete YOUR application package.
This announcement is opened to a
variety of applicants.
DD Form 214 (Military Discharge
Papers and Separation Documents) The
Defense Department issues to each
veteran a DD-214, identifying the
veteran's condition of discharge -
honorable, general, other than
honorable, dishonorable or bad
conduct. (This document is needed if
claiming veteran's preference when applying
for announcements that
is opened to "All US
Citizens," or applying under VEOA or VRA.
Current FSIS employees must also
provide this documentation when
applying to announcements opened
to "All U.S. Citizens." For more
information go to
http://www.opm.gov/veterans/html/vetsInfo.asp
SF-15 (Application for 10 Veterans Preference) the
information on
this form, along with any
accompanying required documents, will be
used to determine whether you are
entitled to 10-point veterans'
preference.
VA Ltr (An official statement from
the Department of Veterans
Affairs certifying to the present
existence of the veterans service-
connected disability.)
SF-50 - (Notification of Personnel
Action) Current or former Federal
employees must submit a copy of
most recent SF-50, "Notification of
Personnel Action", reflecting
grade, title, series, and annual pay.
Current FSIS employees do not need
to provide these documents in
order to be considered for vacancy
announcements.
College Transcripts - Transcripts
are required only if applying to
positions with a positive
education requirement. Please look
at
the "Qualifications"
portion of the vacancy announcement to see if
education is required. If education is required, your
transcripts
and or course slip must include
course title, school name/location,
date completed, grade, and number
of credits.
Schedule A Certification - If
applying for the position under a
Schedule A appointment, applicants
must provide proof of their
disability by submitting
documentation. For more information go to
http://www.opm.gov/disability/appointment_disabilities.asp
ICTAP/CTAP - Career Transition
Assistance Plan (CTAP), Interagency
Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP). If you claim CTAP/ICTAP
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. Click
here: for more information or go to
http://www.opm.gov/rif/employee_guides/career_transition.asp#cts
Performance Appraisal: A performance Appraisal is not needed if
you
are a current FSIS employee or if
you are a non-federal government
employee.
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 them both 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 TYPES 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:
Shannon R. Sarbo
Phone: 800-370-3747
Fax: 612-370-2376
TDD: 800-877-8339
Email: shannon.sarbo@fsis.usda.gov
Or write:
Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA
Human Resources Field Office
Butler Square West, Suite 420C
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Fax: 612-370-2376
What To Expect Next:
You may check your status at
www.usajobs.gov. Applications are
reviewed after the announcement
closing date and the best qualified
candidates are referred to the
selection official.
Control Number: 82728275
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