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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-MCE-2010-0011
Job Title:
Consumer Safety Inspector (CSI) 5 / 7 - ROTATES
Salary Range:
34,582.00 - 55,689.00 USD /year
Series & Grade:
GS-1862-05/07
Promotion Potential:
09
Open Period:
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 to Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Position Information:
Full-time Permanent
Duty Locations:
1 vacancy - Monroe, NY
Who May Be Considered:
All U.S. Citizens; current or
former Federal employment is not
required.
Job Summary:
This is an excellent opportunity
for those seeking a greater
challenge and responsibility in a
position directly involved in
protecting public health. As a
trainee, you will be learning and
performing the following duties in
a developmental capacity with
supervision and training. Here's what to expect as you progress in
this position:
SPECIFIC VACANCY INFORMATION:
This position ROTATEs with a night
shift.
Both positions has promotion
potential to the GS-9 level.
Establishment: 31727, Kiryas Joel Poultry Processing
located in
Orange County. Work Schedule: 1 Rotating position;
1st shift Sunday-Thursday, 7:30
a.m. to 4:00 p.m.;
Species: Multiple (processing and slaughter).
As a Consumer Safety Inspector
(CSI), you will ensure that regulated
Meat and Poultry establishments
produce a safe product by executing
appropriate inspection methods,
determining noncompliance with
regulatory requirements, documenting
noncompliance, and initiating
enforcement action, where
warranted.
Key Requirements:
- This announcement may be used
to fill additional vacancies.
- FSIS UTILIZES E-VERIFY TO
VERIFY IDENTITY AND EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY
- You must be a U.S. citizen to
be eligible for this position.
- Successful completion of a
background check is required for this position.
- Relocation expenses will not
be paid for this position.
Major Duties:
In your position as a Consumer
Safety Inspector, 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.
You will review records, observe
plant operations, and conduct hands-
on verification to ensure
compliance with regulatory requirements.
You will prepare detailed
documentation (Non-Compliance Record) on
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.
You will conduct regulatory
oversight activities inside plants in
matters relating to other consumer
protections (e.g., economic
adulteration and misbranding).
As a Consumer Safety Inspector,
you will 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,
communicate on and defend determinations
on noncompliance issues, and to
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.
In addition, 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:
1. Work Experience: To qualify
based only on work experience, you
must have 1 year of specialized
experience equivalent to the
experience that would have been
gained if working in this position
or a similar, closely related
position at the next lower level. See
specialized experience definition.
OR
2. Education and Training:
Successful completion of a full 4
year course of study leading to a
bachelor's degree with major study
or at least 24 semester
hours/credits in any combination
of coursework in the areas of:
agricultural, biological, or
physical sciences, food technology,
epidemiology, home economics,
pharmacy, engineering, or
nutrition. Specialized government
or military training may be
creditable if it is related
directly to this position.
OR
3. A combination of education and
specialized experience. In this
instance, only education in excess
of the first 60 semester hours of
a course of study leading to a
bachelor's degree (with some related
coursework, as described in number
2 above) is creditable towards
meeting the requirements, along
with specialized work experience.
The combination must equal 100% of
the requirement.
For example, if you have 33%
education, then you need 67%
specialized experience.
4. One full year of directly
related graduate education is
qualifying for GS-7.
Specialized Experience:
In order to meet the specialized
experience requirement, you will
need to have completed 52 weeks of
progressively responsible
specialized experience equivalent
to the experience that would have
been gained if working in this
position at the next lower grade
level within 30 days after the
closing date of this announcement,
OR the appropriate education
substitution listed above. This
includes experience that provided
you with knowledge of the
properties and characteristics of
regulated food commodities and
substances, such as meat, poultry,
fish, eggs,or other food for
human consumption, and other
ingestible substances, such as
pharmaceuticals. This experience
should include several or all of
the following:
Skill in applying proper
techniques for collecting samples and
performing field tests and
examinations, skill in developing written
reports and reporting findings or
results orally, and skill in
maintaining effective personal
contacts with a variety of
individuals. Such experience may
have been acquired in work such as
consumer safety inspector or
inspection aid, food inspector, public
health inspector, quality
inspection specialist, or similar position
with responsibility for sampling,
quality control and sanitation in
a food manufacturing or production
environment, or similar
environment for other ingestible
items.
There are several ways that you
can meet the basic qualification
requirements for the Consumer
Safety Inspector (CSI) trainee
position. They are:
1. Work Experience.
2. Education and Training.
3. A combination of education and
specialized experience.
or
4. One full year of directly
related graduate education is
qualifying for GS-7.
How You Will Be Evaluated:
Applicants are evaluated in
accordance with Delegated Examining
Procedures. An automated rating
system, based on the on-line
assessment and 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:
Benefit info:
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:
Effective July 19, 2009, FSIS will
begin operating under the Public
Health Human Resources System
(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. This position will be
included in
PHHRS.
PHHRS will allow FSIS the
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
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.
Condition of Employment:
This position has a training
program requirement as a condition of
employment. If selected, you must
successfully complete a multi-
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 and length of
time you will need to attend the training
will be based on the types
of HACCP processes you will be
expected to verify in the
establishment(s) to which you will
be assigned in this new
position. For example, if the
position is assigned to conduct
verification activities in plants
producing raw products, two weeks
of FSRE training will be
required. If your assignment covers
establishments with not shelf
stable, ready-to-eat/not ready-to-eat
processes, you will attend the
three-week FSRE course. If your
assignment involves verification
activities for shelf stable
products, you will also be
required to attend the two-week shelf
stable FSRE training. If you
successfully completed some or all of
the required training previously,
the number of weeks required may
be adjusted. 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 removal
from Federal Service.
This position requires a
Pre-Employment Physical.
The duties of a Consumer Safety
Inspector are performed in a
hazardous working environment.
Therefore, applicants must be
physically and mentally able to
efficiently perform the job
functions, without hazard to
themselves and others. Specifically,
full range of motion is required
for rapid repetitive twisting and
working with arms above shoulder
level as well as standing and
walking on slippery and uneven
floors and catwalks, and climbing
stairs and ladders. Applicants
must be able to lift, carry, push and
pull up to 44 pounds. Manual
dexterity of the upper body, including
arms, hands, and fingers with a
normal sense of touch in both hands
is mandatory. In addition,
applicants must be free of chronic eye
disease, have good near and
distance vision and have the ability to
distinguish shades of color. Any
significant degree of color
blindness (25 percent or more
error rate on approved color plate
test) is disqualifying. The
ability to hear and understand
conversational voice is required.
The above requirements are not all
inclusive.
Background
Investigation/Suitability:
Selectee will be subject to
receiving a satisfactory background
investigation, and will also need
to complete an OF-306, Declaration
for Federal Employment prior to
appointment to determine suitability
for federal employment. This
document asks for disclosure of
information relating to arrests,
employment terminations, and
other suitablitiy issues.
Conflict of Interest:
In addition, the selectee will
need to provide a signed conflict of
interest statement. Conflict of
interest rules prohibit an
appointment to a position at an
establishment where an individual
has been previously employed for
more than 90 days during the
preceding year. There are several
other types of conflict of
interest situations explained in
detail on the form given to
selectees.
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.
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
listed on the announcement will
provide assistance to help you
apply, or provide alternative
methods.
Applicants may contact the
servicing human resources office during
their core business hours (8:00 am
to 3:30 pm central time) prior to
the closing date to speak with
someone who can provide assistance
for online application.
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.
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 online
in USAJOBS as part of the initial
application process)
2. Answers to all vacancy-specific
questions (Completed for each
job)
3. Your online 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 online vacancy questions and
who do not submit a supporting
online resume will be rated
ineligible.
Required Documents:
If qualifying based on education,
you must submit a copy official of
your 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: 612-659-8564
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 on
USAJOBS. Applications are reviewed
after the announcement closing
date and the best qualified
candidates are referred to the
selection official for further
consideration and possible
interview.
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: 1713326
Control Number: 84112107
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