Job Listing: Consumer Safety Inspector (CSI) 5 / 7
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1 vacancy - Kodak, TN ABOUT THIS POSITION
This position has promotion potential to the GS-7 level.
Plant Name: Swaggerty Sausage
Establishment #: P-8314
Shift Times: 6:00 am - 3:00 pm, Mon-Fri
Species: Meat slaughter/processing
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:
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.
Major Duties
As a Consumer Safety Inspector (CSI), your role will be to examine
food animals in privately-owned meat or poultry plants. You will
ensure that the product is fit to eat and in compliance with Federal
laws. Inspection is performed before and after slaughter to ensure
that the product is not contaminated and that sanitation procedures
are maintained. The incumbent will also be required to perform
duties to verify that a food safety system within officially
inspected slaughter and/or processing establishments is operating in
compliance with regulations and in a way that will result in safe
food.
How to Apply
1. Answers to all core questions (Completed when registering on-line
in USAJOBS as part of the initial application process)
2. Answers to all vacancy-specific questions (Completed for each
job)
3. Your on-line 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 (transcripts if
qualifying on education).
Applicants who do not respond to the on-line vacancy questions and
who do not submit a supporting documents and a supporting on-line
resume will be rated ineligible.
Announcement closes at midnight eastern time on the closing date.
Required Documents:
If qualifying based on education, you must submit 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, Certification of Expected Separation, and a SF-50, noting
current position, grade level, and duty location.
If you claim Veteran Preference please provide a copy of your DD-214
showing a honorable discharge. For veterans receiving compensation
please provide SF-15 and supporting documentation from the VA along
with your DD-214.
Supporting documentation should be sent using the fax imaging
instructions after you have applied for the vacancy announcement.
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.
** Not all of the document types listed will pertain to you; only
submit documents needed to complete your application package. For
example, the Schedule A Certification document must only be
submitted by individuals applying based on eligibility for
appointment due to a disability. The SF-50 is a form current and
former Federal employees submit to document their Federal employment
status.
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:
Yvonne Martin
Phone: 800-370-3747
Fax: 612-370-2062
TDD: 800-877-8339
Email: yvonne.martin@fsis.usda.gov
Or write:
Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA
Human Resources Field Office
Butler Square West, Suite 420C
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Fax: 612-370-2062
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. We expect a selection will
be made within 45 days of the closing date of this announcement.
Required Skills
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.
Date Posted: April 22, 2008
Job Details |
Job Location |
Candidate Application |
| Employer: Department Of Agriculture |
Address: |
Contact: |
| Job Type: Full-time |
City: Nashville |
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| Experience:Any |
State: Tennessee |
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| Education: Bachelors Degree |
Zip Code:37211 |
Online: Website Link |
Salary and Benefits
Salary Range: 29,726.00 - 47,864.00 USD per year
Benefits
The Federal government offers a number of exceptional benefits to
its employees. The following Web addresses are provided for your
reference to explore the major benefits offered to most Federal
employees.
Flexible Spending Accounts - The Federal Flexible Spending Accounts
Program (FSAFeds) allows you to pay for certain health and dependent
care expenses with pre-tax dollars. For information visit:
https://www.fsafeds.com/fsafeds/index.asp
Health Insurance - The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
offers over 100 optional plans. For information visit:
http://www.opm.gov/insure/health/index.asp
Leave - Most Federal employees earn both annual and sick leave. For
additional information visit: http://www.opm.gov/oca/leave/index.asp
Life Insurance - The Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Program
(FEGLI) offers: Basic Life Insurance plus three types of optional
insurance, for additional information visit:
http://www.opm.gov/insure/life/index.asp
Long Term Care Insurance - The Federal Long Term Care Insurance
Program (FLTCIP) provides long term care insurance for Federal
employees and their parents, parents-in-law, stepparents, spouses,
and adult children. For additional information visit:
http://www.ltcfeds.com/
Retirement Program - Almost all new employees are automatically
covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). FERS is a
three-tiered retirement plan. The three tiers are: Social Security
Benefits, Basic Benefit Plan, Thrift Savings Plan. For additional
information visit: http://www.opm.gov/retire/index.asp
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