Department:
Department Of Agriculture
Agency:
Food Safety and Inspection Service
Sub Agency:
Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA
Job Announcement Number:
FSIS-MMP-2009-1249
Job Title:
Consumer Safety Inspector (HACCP Models) 8
Salary Range:
42,214.00 - 54,879.00 USD /year
Series & Grade:
GS-1862-08/08
Promotion Potential:
08
Open Period:
Thursday, September 24, 2009 to Thursday, October 15, 2009
Position Information:
Full-time Permanent
Duty Locations:
1 vacancy - Dayton, VA
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
improving and protecting public
health.
SPECIFIC VACANCY INFORMATION: CSI (HACCP Models) GS-1862-8, SJ-528.
Establishment: P18, Cargill Meat
Solutions Corp. located in
ROCKINGHAM County.
Work Schedule: Night Shift,
Monday-Friday, 1:45 p.m. - 10:15 p.m.
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.
Key Requirements:
- Must be a CURRENT FSIS
Employee or USDA Career Transition (CTAP) Eligible.
- Training program is a
condition of employment. (see Additional Information)
- 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 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. 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.
* 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.
* Conduct regulatory oversight
activities inside plants in
matters relating to other consumer
protections (e.g., economic
adulteration and misbranding).
* 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.
* 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:
For the CSI positions, there are
two basic components of your
experience that together define
the qualifications. These are: Time-
in-Grade (TIG) and specialized
experience. In order to meet TIG,
you will need to have completed 52
weeks at the next lower grade
level within 30 days of the
closing date of this announcement. 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 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 in reaching and
interpreting conclusions.
* Only CURRENT FSIS Agency
employees and CTAP eligibles are eligible
to apply to this announcement.
* If you are a non-competitive
applicant (reassignment, change to
lower grade, or noncompetitive
re-promotion) wanting consideration
for this position, you MUST
complete the full on-line application
process and/or apply to the
Voluntary Reassignment System. To
receive consideration for this
position, under the Voluntary
Reassignment System, you must
submit a hard copy Form 4335-3,
Employee Request for Reassignment
within Field Operations. Forms
must be mailed to: USDA, FSIS, HRO Systems Section, Butler
Square
West, 4th Floor, 100 N Sixth
Street, Minneapolis, MN 55403.
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.
*
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.
*
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).
How To Apply:
Begin the application process at
www.USAJOBS.gov If you have not
registered, you will need to
register with USAJOBS. You need to
answer all the core questions, the
job specific questions and submit
your resume on-line. Your resume should include detailed work
experience, education and training
relevant to this position.
Applicants who do not answer all
the questions and who do not submit
a supporting resume on-line will
be rated ineligible. You must
complete and submit your
application 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 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:
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/eeo
Reasonable Accommodation Policy
Statement: http://www.usajobs.gov/raps
Veterans Information: http://www.usajobs.gov/vi
Legal and Regulatory Guidance: http://www.usajobs.gov/lrg
USAJOBS Control Number: 1688461
Control Number: 83579683
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