TAHC Livestock Inspector - Laredo Region

Laredo Region Classification/Title/Salary Group

1322/Inspector II/B14; 1323/Inspector III/B16; 1324/Inspector IV/B18; 1325/Inspector V/B20

Monthly Salary: $3,730.13 - $4,780.13, month plus state benefits

Career Ladder Opportunity

Laredo Region. Positions headquarters will be in Willacy and Eastern Hidalgo Counties OR Zapata County

Non
-Exempt

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Start your career at the Texas Animal Health Commission as we work together to protect the livestock industry. Whether you're looking to begin your career, apply your current skills and experience, or explore opportunities to innovate. At TAHC, we promote a culture of teamwork, open communication, transparency, and a commitment to educating the public while safeguarding Texas livestock. Join us and make a difference because protecting Texas agriculture starts with you!

Performs inspections at livestock markets, feedlots, slaughter plants, flea markets, farms and ranches, and at other places where livestock, exotics, and poultry are gathered. Conducts livestock shipment inspection activities, as assigned.

• Performs inspections at livestock markets, feedlots, slaughter plants, flea markets, farms and ranches, and at other locations where livestock, exotics, and poultry are gathered.
• Collects samples for testing from cattle, swine, equine, exotics, sheep, goats and poultry.
• Enforces quarantines and other livestock disease control measures, including livestock shipment activities.
• Performs periodic public education contacts with community media resources and organizations.
• Participates in emergency management activities and responses to disease outbreaks as assigned.
• Maintains accurate and detailed work activity records.
• Drives extensively on a daily basis, using personal or agency vehicle.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Graduation from standard senior high school or GED (+):
  Inspector II
• Must have general experience working with livestock.
• Inspector III
• Must have at least one (1) year of livestock experience working as a TAHC Livestock Inspector or USDA Animal Health Technician.
• Inspector IV
• Must have at least three (3) years of livestock experience working as a TAHC Livestock Inspector or USDA Animal Health Technician.
• Inspector V
• Must have at least five (5) years of livestock experience working as a TAHC Livestock Inspector or USDA Animal Health Technician.
• This is a career ladder position. Unless a previous TAHC Inspector or USDA Animal Health Technician, newly hired inspectors will come in at the Inspector II classification and pay.
• TAHC Animal Health Inspectors cannot have personal involvement with livestock or poultry/fowl to the extent that it creates an actual or perceived conflict of interest in executing regulatory enforcement duties or in any way restricts ability to carry out disease program activities.

Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with livestock producers, market owners/operators, local area emergency management coordinators, coworkers, and others involved in animal agriculture; keeping detailed written records; operating a laptop computer, hand-held data collection device, global positioning system (GPS), and other equipment necessary to perform job duties; effective oral and written communication skills; legible handwriting.

Ability to follow oral and written instructions; to safely handle livestock; to acquire knowledge of the laws and regulations governing livestock markets, brucellosis, and other regulatory programs and to apply regulations to work activities; travel extensively (some overnight) and to work occasional…