Consumer Safety Inspector job - Food Safety and Inspection Service - Gardiner, ME
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.
This position is being announced at the GS-1862-5/7 level. This position has promotion potential to GS-9
Please also note that the salary listed is for the Rest of the United States. If selected your pay maybe increased depending upon the locality pay of the area of the position.
Please note that the positions listed in this announcement may rotate.
SPECIFIC VACANCY INFORMATION: Portland, ME
Establishment: 34146 M, B & G Foods, North America, Inc.
Work Schedule: 1st Shift, Monday-Friday, 7:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Species: Various
SPECIFIC VACANCY INFORMATION: Gardiner, ME
Establishment: P45465, Common Wealth Poultry Co.Demakes Enterprises
Work Schedule: 1st Shift, Monday-Friday, 7:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Species: Poultry
TRAVEL REQUIRED
- Occasional Travel
- Travel varies depending on the position
RELOCATION AUTHORIZED
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- US Citizenship is required.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- A 1-year probationary period is required.
- Please be sure to submit transcrips if qualifying based on education.
- Passing training is a condition of employment for this position.
DUTIES: Back to top
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, and 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 REQUIRED: Back to top
Requirements: 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.
Qualifications: In order to meet the qualifications for this position, you will need to have:
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 below.
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 by 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.
• Have your salary sent to a financial institution of your choice by Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer.
• If you are newly hired, the documentation you present for purposes of completing the Department Homeland Security (DHS) Form I-9 on your entry-on-duty date will be verified through the DHS “E-VERIFY” system. Federal law requires the use of E-VERIFY to confirm the employment eligibility of all new hires. Under this system, the new hire is required to resolve any identified discrepancies as a condition of continued employment.
• Selectee must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance. If selected you may be subject to a National Agency Check and Inquiry (NACI) and a credit report inquiry.
HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED:
- The category rating procedure is used to rank and select eligible candidates. Under category rating, applicants who meet basic minimum qualification requirements established for the position and whose job related competencies have been assessed are ranked by being placed in one of the following categories: Best Qualified, Well Qualified, and Qualified. Preference eligibles are listed ahead of non-preference eligibles within each category.
- You will be evaluated based on your qualifications for this position as evidenced by the education, experience, and training you described in your application package, as well as the responses to the Occupational Questionnaire to determine the degree to which you possess the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies listed below:
- Language
- Mathmatics
- Information Processing
- Analytical Ability
- Communication
- Personal Characteristics
- Technical Skills and Knowledge
- Information Technology
- We will review your application, including the online Occupational Questionnaire, to ensure you meet the job requirements and assess your ability to perform this job. Before any certificate can be issued to the selecting official, the resume and supporting documents are reviewed by an HR Specialist to ensure that (a) minimum qualification requirements are met and (b) the resume supports the answers provided to the job-specific questions. Your answers will be verified against information provided in your online resume and application. Be sure that your resume clearly supports your responses to all the questions addressing experience and education relevant to this position.
Note : If, after reviewing your resume and / or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience, your score can / will be lowered to more accurately reflect the submitted documentation. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating. Deliberate attempts to falsify information may be grounds for not selecting you.
To view the application form, visit: https://fsis.usda.ntis.gov/cp/?event=jobs.previewApplication&jobid=ca33ba75-6158-4ced-b584-a49601438d40
BENEFITS: Back to top
You can review our benefits at:
http://www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/healthcare/enrollment/new-federal-employee-enrollment/
OTHER INFORMATION: • If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so.
• BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION AND FINGERPRINT CHECK: Selection and retention in this position is contingent on a successfully adjudicated FBI National Criminal History Check (fingerprint check) and a background investigation.
• This position has a training program requirement as a condition of employment (TCOE). If selected, you must successfully complete a 4-week training program, the Inspection Methods course, at a designated location which may require travel outside the duty location for an extended period. This training is necessary to perform the duties and responsibilities of a CSI to further the mission of the Office of Field Operations and FSIS. 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 (depending on availability and the needs of the Agency); or if qualified, be offered another position at the same or lower grade than the position held immediately before accepting the covered position; or removal from Federal Service.
• If you are selected for a position with further promotion potential, you will be placed under a career development plan, and may be non-competitively promoted if you successfully complete the requirements and if recommended by management. However, promotion is neither implied nor guaranteed.
• This is a bargaining unit designated position.
• THIS POSITION REQUIRES A PRE-EMPLOYMENT PHYSICAL
• It is the policy of the Government not to deny employment simply because an individual has been unemployed or to find an individual unqualified, unsuitable, or unfit for employment based upon financial difficulties that have arisen through no fault of the individual. Information about an individual’s employment experience should be used only to determine the person’s qualifications and to assess his or her relative level of knowledge, skills, and abilities. Although an individual’s personal conduct may be relevant in any employment decision, including conduct during periods of unemployment or evidence of dishonesty in handling financial matters, financial difficulty that has arisen through no fault of the individual will generally not itself be the basis of unfavorable suitability or fitness determination.
• Agency Recruiter: Kamir Carrillo (202) 720-6617
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