Meat Safety Inspector

Who We Are: The Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) works hard to protect and promote Wisconsin’s agricultural industries and consumers. As an agency, we strive to serve the people of Wisconsin assuring: safe, wholesome food; consumer protection and fair business practices; animal and plant health; a clean environment; and strong agriculture and commerce. To successfully attain these goals, we recognize our success hinges on the diverse, well qualified, dedicated staff we employ and retain.

What We're Seeking: The DATCP’s Division of Food and Recreation Safety, Bureau of Meat and Poultry Businesses (BMPB), is recruiting for a Meat Safety Inspector (Meat Safety Inspector
- Entry or Objective).
We will be filling the position at the Entry or Objective level depending on the qualifications of the selected candidate.

This position will be field-based and will be headquartered in Green County
.

The qualifying candidate is not required to live in a county headquarter location. However, there is no expense reimbursement for drive time and gas mileage to commute to the assigned headquarter location. The specific headquarter city used for determining payment of drive time and expense reimbursement will be determined at the time of hire.

This position offers the State of Wisconsin’s excellent benefits package, which includes 3.5 weeks of paid time off to start, 9 paid holidays, accrued sick leave, multiple insurance options, and an exceptional retirement plan.

This position is an entry or objective level field inspection position whose duties include conducting ante and post-mortem inspection of food animals and poultry in official meat establishments, as well as verifying humane handling, sanitary dressing, zero tolerance and specified risk material (SRM) requirements. In addition, this role verifies the establishment’s sanitation standard operating procedures (SSOP), Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) plans and pathogen reduction programs comply with regulatory requirements.

Duties also include verifying formulation, labeling, net weight requirements as well as collecting samples.

The work includes providing education, consultation, and regulation to licensed meat establishments, while maintaining professional relationships. The impact of the work is to assure safe and wholesome food, properly labeled, for human consumption; this includes ensuring establishments follow their SSOP and HACCP plan, and other prerequisite programs, in an effort to prevent the distribution of adulterated or misbranded product and reduce the risk of food borne disease.

The entry level Meat Safety Inspector
- Entry is in schedule-range
05-64 with a starting pay of $26.57 - $27.54. The Meat Safety Inspector
- Objective is in schedule-range 05-63 with a starting pay of $29.33- $33.45.

These positions are not represented by a collective bargaining unit. A 12-month probationary period is required. Pay for current state employees will be set in accordance with the State Compensation Plan at the time of hire.

At DATCP, we strive to deliver efficient and effective programs and services to Wisconsin agriculture, consumers, and businesses. The Department has numerous on-the-job training (OJT) opportunities, unique to each Bureau.

These OJT opportunities include direct experience and practice through collaboration with co‑workers/supervisor, peer mentoring, and job‑specific training modules.

OJT for our Meat Safety Inspectors include:

• Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Inspection Methods

A criminal background check will be performed on the selected applicant prior to an offer of employment.

Possession of a valid driver's license, or the ability to provide one’s own transportation for work purposes, is required.

The employee will drive between inspection locations and may be required to spend time in overnight travel status (ability to stay overnight as needed 1 to 4 nights per week, on occasion). The ability to work nights, weekends, holidays, and overtime as needed, is required.

Travel is required for approximately 90% of this position’s duties.

Ability to stand, walk, bend, squat, and…