Qualifications
Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement, including time-in-grade restrictions, specialized experience and/or education, as defined below.
Time-In-Grade/Time-In-Band: Applicants must meet requirements for one year at the next lower grade to be considered for the next higher grade. (e.g. one year at the GS-07 grade level for consideration for the GS-08 grade level.)
Specialized Experience
For all grade levels:
This experience should encompass at least two of the following areas:
(GS-8) Applicants must have one year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-07 level). Specialized experience includes working with the Federal Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products Inspection Acts in order to inspect meat, poultry and egg products; working with basic SSOP and HACCP principles and practices in order to verify plant HAACP 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.
(GS-9) Applicants must have one year of specialized experience (equivalent to at least the GS-08 level). Specialized experience includes: In addition to the qualifications above, incumbents are expected to have experience working at a more independent level than lower graded CSIs, 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 done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Please view OPM’s Qualifications Standards, Consumer Safety Inspector Series, GS-1862 .
The duties of a Consumer Safety Inspector are performed in a hazardous working environment. For additional information, please click here . The below requirements are not an all-inclusive list.
Applicants Must
Education
Education may be used to qualify in lieu of specialized experience as described below.
For the GS-09 Level: Two full years of directly related graduate education or a directly related master’s degree is qualifying for GS-9.
OR
A combination of education and specialized experience. In this instance, only graduate education in excess of the first 18 semester hours directly related to the work of the position is creditable towards meeting the requirements, along with specialized work experience. The combination must equal 100% of the requirement. For example, if you have 33% of the education requirement, then you will need 67% of the specialized experience requirement.
Additional Information
THIS POSITION REQUIRES A PRE-EMPLOYMENT PHYSICAL. Position Requirements .
Promotion Potential: If you are selected for a position with further promotion potential, you will be placed under a career development plan, and may be non-competitively promoted if you successfully complete the requirements and if recommended by management. However, promotion is neither implied nor guaranteed.
This is a Bargaining Unit position covered by the National Joint Council (NJC) of Food Inspection Locals.
Should be able to read, speak, write, and effectively communicate in the English language.
Required
If you are a current FSIS employee and a non-competitive applicant (reassignment, change to lower grade, or non-competitive re-promotion) wanting consideration for this position, you must complete the on-line application process and/or apply to the Voluntary Reassignment System. In order to apply to the Voluntary Reassignment System, you must submit a hard copy of “Form 4335-3, Employee Request for Reassignment within Field Operations.” The required form(s) must be filled out and mailed to:
USDA, FSIS, HROD
920 2nd Ave S, Suite 1300
Minneapolis, MN 55402
This announcement may be used to fill additional like vacancies should any occur in the announced duty location(s).
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