Consumer Safety Inspector

Benefits

$5,000 Sign on Bonus, Creditable Service for Annual Leave Accrual, Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, and Referral Bonus Awards are available.

Employee will primarily work in one plant but may be detailed to any shift at any plant in the Denver District. Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement.

Specialized experience is experience that provided you with knowledge of the properties and characteristics of regulated food commodities or other products for human consumption. Such experience may have been acquired in work such as consumer safety inspector, inspection aide, 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.

Applicants must have at least 52 weeks of qualifying experience that provided knowledge of the properties and characteristics of regulated food commodities and substances such as meat, poultry, fish, eggs, or other food or beverages for human consumption, or other ingestible substances such as pharmaceuticals. Applicants must show examples such as applying proper techniques for collecting samples and performing field tests, identifying abnormalities in the product or production environment and recommending corrective actions, developing written reports and reporting findings, communicating findings to others, and maintaining effective personal contacts describing findings with internal or external contacts regarding food safety standards.

Such experience may have been acquired in positions such as consumer safety inspector, inspection aid, food inspector, public health inspector, quality inspection specialist or related position.

In addition to the qualifications above, applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience, and incumbents are expected to have performed standard and recurrent duties independently. Your resume should demonstrate at least 52 weeks of experience in independently carrying out routine, standard assignments on a regular and recurring basis 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.

Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience. In addition, experience must include working with the Federal Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products Inspection Acts, basic SSOP and HACCP principles and practices to verify plant HACCP and SSOP responsibilities, performing basic mathematics and elementary statistical concepts and methods to perform testing and sampling procedures, and experience in reaching and interpreting conclusions.

Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience. Incumbents are expected to have experience working at a more independent level than lower graded CSIs, including duties such as recommending refusal of exports and providing temporary coverage at locations outside of the official duty station.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work through National Service programs or other organizations. Volunteer work helps build competencies and can provide valuable training that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

The duties of a Consumer Safety Inspector are performed in a hazardous working environment. The below requirements are not an all-inclusive list. Failure to fully meet a functional requirement is not automatically disqualifying.