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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-2009-1148
Job Title:
Supervisory Consumer Safety Inspector-AI-1862-3/4
Salary Range:
37,075.00 - 64,403.00 USD /year
Series & Grade:
AI-1862-03/04
Promotion Potential:
04
Open Period:
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
to Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Position Information:
Full-time Permanent
Duty Locations:
1 vacancy - Shelbyville, TN
Who May Be Considered:
1. CURRENT eligible Food Safety
Inspection Service (FSIS) Agency
Employees of the JACKSON DISTRICT, or
2. USDA Career Transtion Eligibles
(CTAP).
Job Summary:
This Supervisory Consumer Safety
Inspector (SCSI) position is an
excellent opportunity for those
seeking a greater challenge and
responsibility in a position
directly involved in improving and
protecting public health.
SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR THIS
POSITION:
SCSI, AI-1862-3/4 (salary range
$37,075-$64,403)
Open to eligible FSIS Agency
Employees of the JACKSON DISTRICT.
Establishment: 06651 P, Tyson
Foods Inc located in BEDFORD County.
Work Schedule: 2nd Shift, Monday-Friday,
2:45 p.m. - 11:15 p.m.
Species: Poultry
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.
FSIS is operating under the Public
Health Human Resources System
(PHHRS), a Pay Banding and Pay for
Performance Demonstration
Project. Please visit
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/careers/PHHRS_Demo_Project/index.asp
Key Requirements:
- Probationary period required
for Supervisory positions
- Must be a CURRENT FSIS
employee or CTAP eligible
- Training program requirement
is a condition of employment
- Resume documenting 52 weeks
of specialized experience
- Meet time in grade (TIG) by
completing 52 weeks at next lower grade level
- Background Suitability
Investigation
Major Duties:
As a SCSI you will be a
subordinate supervisor to a Supervisory
Veterinary Medical Officer
(SVMO)in a large slaughter plant. You
will:
* monitor, assign, direct, review,
and evaluate the work of line
Food Inspectors (FI) and off-line
CSI's
* insure appropriate breaks are
provided and that relief inspectors
are utilized as necessary
* provide training to new
inspectors and to all inspectors as needed
on new inspection procedures and
techniques
* verify regulatory compliance
with the full range of Sanitation and
Standard Operating Procedures
(SSOP) and with Hazard Analysis and
Critical Control Point (HACCP)
requirements
* verify corrective actions taken
to deal with product contamination
and will prepare non-compliance
documentation
Qualifications:
To qualify at the AI-3 level, you
must have at least 52 weeks of
specialized experience equivalent
to at least the GS-7 in the
federal service. To qualify at the AI-4 level, you must
have at
least 52 weeks of specialized
experience equivalent to the GS-8/9 in
the federal service. You must have completed the 52 weeks of
specialized experience within 30
days after the closing date of this
announcement. Specialized experience includes:
* working with the Federal Meat,
Poultry, and Egg Products
Inspection Acts in order to
inspect meat, poultry, and egg products
* 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 reaching and
interpreting conclusions
* Past or present supervisory
experience will enhance your
qualifications for this position
This is a non-bargaining unit
supervisory position.
If you are a non-competitive
applicant wanting consideration for
this position, you MUST complete
the full on-line application
process.
Only current FSIS Agency employees
and CTAP eligibles are eligible
to apply to this announcement.
How You Will Be Evaluated:
Applicants are evaluated in
accordance with Merit Staffing
procedures which govern Status candidates. An automated ranking
system based on the on-line
application process is used. We will
carefully review your resume and
your answers to the questions, to
ensure you meet the minimum
qualifications. Your resume will be
reviewed to verify that it
supports the answers you submitted and
that it address 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:
*
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.
*
A pre-employment physical may be required.
*
This announcement may be used to fill additional like vacancies
should any occur in the announced
duty location.
*
If selected at the AI-3 level, and the position has promotion
potential to the AI-4 level, you
may be promoted to the AI-4, upon
completion of 12 months of
satisfactory performance.
*
Entitlement to the payment of relocation expenses will be
determined in accordance with the
provisions outlined in FSIS
DIRECTIVE 3820.2
*
Salaries in some locations may be higher than the salary listed
in this announcement due to
locality pay. For a listing of
locality
pay tables and locality pay
information, see www.opm.gov/index.asp
*
Travel required may vary depending on geographical assignment.
*
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. 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).
*
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.
How To Apply:
Begin the application process at
www.USAJOBS.gov If you have not
registered, you will need to
register with USAJOBS, answer all the
core questions, and build a
resume. Your resume should include
detailed work experience,
education and training relevant to this
position. You also need to answer
all the job specific questions and
submit a resume on-line.
Applicants who do not answer the questions
and who do not submit a supporting
resume will be rated ineligible.
Applications must be complete and
submitted on-line 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 this announcement can provide
assistance to help you apply or
provide alternative methods.
Required Documents:
Current FSIS Agency employees do
not need to submit additional
documents.
Only CTAP eligibile applicants are
required to provide a copy of
their most recent performance
appraisal (at least "fully successful"
or equivalent), proof of
eligibility (a RIF separation notice or
Certification of Expected
Separation) and a SF-50 noting current
position, grade level and duty
location. CTAP documents must be
sent via fax during the USAJOBS
on-line application process and must
be received by midnight Eastern
Time on the closing date of the
vacancy announcement. Before faxing CTAP documents, make sure they
are legible and all information is
complete and signed. Illegible
documents cannot be used for qualification
or verification purpose.
Use a separate cover sheet for
each category of documentation.
Select the cover sheet to print by
selecting the appropriate check
boxes in the Selected Documents
column. Print the cover sheets. A
window will pop up containing the
fax cover sheet(s) you selected;
you must allow pop-ups. After reviewing the list of documents and
printing the fax cover sheets,
click Done. You will receive an e-
mail confirming the fax has been
successfully received by Human
Resources. You should retain your
your e-mail confirmation and the
fax transmittal report as proof of
your submission.
Contact Information:
Merri Stellburg
Phone: 800-370-3747 x8541
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:
Applicant qualifications are
evaluated after the position closes.
The best qualified and
non-competitive applicants will be referred
to the selecitng official for
consideration. You will be able to
check your application status in
USAJOBS by going to the MY
USAJOBS tab.
EEO Policy Statement: http://www.usajobs.gov/vacancy/vac_eeo.asp
Reasonable Accommodation Policy
Statement: http://www.usajobs.gov/vacancy/vac_reas_acc.asp
Veterans
Information: http://www.usajobs.gov/vacancy/vac_vet_info.asp
Legal and Regulatory
Guidance: http://www.usajobs.gov/vacancy/vac_legal_regulatory.asp
Control Number: 83020072
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