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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-2009-1254
Job Title:
Food Inspector (Eggs) GS-1863-8/ 9
Salary Range:
49,810.00 - 71,520.00 USD /year
Series & Grade:
GS-1863-08/09
Promotion Potential:
09
Open Period:
Monday, September 28, 2009 to Monday, October 19, 2009
Position Information:
Full-time Permanent
Duty Locations:
1 vacancy - Ripon, CA
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),
Est. 1415G, Nulaid Foods located
in San Joaquin county.
This non-rotating position works
Monday through Friday, 0600 to 1430.
Species: Egg
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.
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:
- 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 Food Inspector (Eggs)
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. For example, if you
are
applying for the GS-9 level, you
will need to have completed 52
weeks at the GS-8 level within 30
days after the closing date of
this announcement.
Specialized Experience: 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 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
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:
Thomas Mack
Phone: 612-659-8552
Fax: 612-370-2377
TDD: 800-877-8339
Email: thomas.mack@fsis.usda.gov
Or write:
Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA
Human Resources Operations
Butler Square West, Suite 420C
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Fax: 612-370-2377
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.
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: 1691486
Control Number:
83642173
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