Veterinarian - Animal Health and Welfare- Northern

The Bureau of Animal Health and Welfare plays a vital role in protecting Illinois’ livestock industry and supporting pet owners statewide. We enforce more than 23 statutes with regulations related to animal health, care, welfare, movement, and emergency preparedness—including foreign animal disease response and disaster planning. As a Field Veterinarian, you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on animal health across Illinois.

This role offers specialized training as a Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostician and positions you as a key defender of the state’s livestock industry. Join our dedicated team and help safeguard animal health and welfare throughout Illinois.

• Travel within an assigned territory to conduct disease investigations and performs sample collection for foreign animal, emerging, and program diseases.
• Assistance in the maintenance of disease program and identification databases to advance animal disease traceability throughout Illinois.
• Travel within an assigned territory to perform inspections on auction markets, rendering plants and trucks, livestock dealers, and other animal health licensees.
• Travel within an assigned territory to conduct initial pullorum typhoid testing on flocks enrolling in the National Poultry Improvement Plan.
• Travel within an assigned territory to conduct limited livestock humane care investigations.
• Travel within an assigned territory to assist animal and animal product investigators on inspections or investigations when further veterinary evaluation is necessary.
• Contacting owners and veterinarians regarding reportable diseases as assigned.
• Working with partner agencies and stakeholders to facilitate emergency preparedness including but not limited to facilitating with maintenance of the premises database, assisting on the development of response plans and facilitating communications with local emergency managers and the state emergency operations center.
• Performance of other duties as assigned which are reasonably within the scope of duties outlined above.

• Requires completion of a name-based background screening and self-disclosure of criminal history.
• Requires the ability to successfully pass a preemployment physical.
• Requires appropriate, valid driver’s license.
• Requires ability to travel long distances in the performance of duties with overnight stays as appropriate.
• Certain provisions of the revolving door restrictions contained in 5 ILCS 430/5-45 apply to this position. As a result, the employee should be aware that if offered non-State employment during state employment or within one year immediately after ending State employment, the employee shall, prior to accepting any such non-State employment offer, notify the Office of the Executive Inspector General for the Agencies of the Illinois Governor (OEIG) or may be subject to a fine.
• Requires ability to work in adverse conditions including inclement weather and livestock settings.
• Requires category II federally accredited Veterinarian.
• Requires license to practice veterinary medicine in Illinois.
• Requires residency in one of the following counties:
  Cook, Kane, DuPage, Lee, Winnebago, LaSalle, McHenry, Henry, Ogle, Boone, Jo Daviess, Grundy, Carroll, DeKalb, Kankakee, Rock Island, Whiteside, Mercer, Bureau, Stephenson, Kendall or Lake county.
• The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.