Consumer Safety Inspector

Consumer Safety Inspector position at USDA‑FSIS
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$5,000 Sign on Bonus, Creditable Service for Annual Leave Accrual, Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, and Referral Bonus Awards are available. Shifts and species will vary based on assignment. Employee may be detailed to any shift at any plant in the Dallas District. For additional information, please contact Suzette Woerner @ . The Consumer Safety Inspector performs quality control and inspection duties in a hazardous working environment, ensuring compliance with federal regulations, food safety standards, sampling, testing, and reporting findings.

Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement, including specialized experience and/or education, as defined below.

Specialized experience:
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 or 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.

See specific grade level specialized experience definitions below.

GS‑05 Level: 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 demonstrate (e.g., applying proper techniques for collecting samples, performing field tests, developing written reports, recommending corrective actions, communicating findings to stakeholders, maintaining effective personal contacts, or other similar work).

GS‑07 Level: In addition to the GS‑05 qualifications, applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS‑05 level) and have performed standard and recurrent duties on an independent basis. Applicants should demonstrate 52 weeks of experience carrying out routine, standard assignments on a regular and recurring basis, providing knowledge of regulated food commodities and substances.

GS‑08 Level: Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS‑07 level). Experience must include working with the Federal Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products Inspection Acts; working with basic SSOP and HACCP principles; performing basic mathematics and elementary statistical concepts to perform testing and sampling procedures; and interpreting conclusions.

GS‑09 Level: Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS‑08 level) and demonstrate experience working at a more independent level, including duties such as recommending refusal of exports and providing temporary coverage at locations outside of the official duty station. Volunteer experience through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, Ameri Corps) may be counted toward qualifying experience.

For more information, view OPM's Qualifications Standards for the Consumer Safety Inspector Series, GS‑1862. The duties of a Consumer Safety Inspector are performed in a hazardous working environment. For additional information, .

• Entry level

• Full‑time

• Health Care Provider

• Government Administration

Location:

Mineola, TX