What are the responsibilities and job description for the MEAT & POULTRY INSPECTOR TRAINEE - CIRCUIT 1-2 position at State of Illinois?
Agency: Department of Agriculture
Closing Date/Time: 12/01/2022
Salary: $3,552 - $4,782/anticipated monthly starting salary
Job Type: Salaried Full Time
County: Cook
Number of Vacancies: 2
Plan/BU: RC029
This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.
All applicants who want to be considered for this position MUST apply electronically through SuccessFactors. Applications submitted via email or any paper manner (mail, fax, hand delivery) will not be considered.
Posting Identification Number #16555
This position serves in a regional capacity. Persons serving in this role are required to assume residency in one of the Counties identified under the Conditions of Employment section which includes DuPage, Cook (south of Lake-Cook Road, west of I-294) or Kane County (east of Rt. 25) and will be required to work from their home location as a base of daily operational headquarters to service their designated worksites.
Position Overview
The Department of Agriculture is seeking to hire a Meat and Poultry Inspector Trainee in the Cook County area. Meat and Poultry Inspectors are essential employees on the front lines of protecting our food production system. The successful candidate will start out as a trainee with the potential of being promoted to an inspector. This position will monitor and inspect animals and animal products from slaughter through processing to packaging and labeling. We invite qualified applicants to apply for this position to help the Department of Agriculture ensure the production of safe and wholesome meat and poultry products.
Job Responsibilities
- Receives formal training for a period of 6 - 12 months in the objectives, methods and techniques of meat and poultry inspection.
- Under close supervision, performs antemortem inspection of live animals and/or poultry prior to slaughter for the presence of conditions indicative of abnormalities or diseases.
- Successfully completes the Employee Development Guide for basic meat inspection and State of Illinois Department of Agriculture's slaughter and processing training courses to become familiar with provisions of food inspection laws, regulations, manuals and inspection procedures.
- Attends and participates in workshops, meetings, institutes, and other activities which will provide meaningful learning experiences for use in meat and poultry inspection.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Minimum Qualifications
- Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to high school (preferably with courses in algebra, biology or chemistry).
Preferred Qualifications
1. Prefers knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to completion of education beyond high school in the following order: Associate degree, Bachelor’s degree, Advanced degree.
2. Prefers completion of education beyond high school with a bachelor’s or advanced degree in the fields of science or agriculture.
3. Prefers experience in the butchering, slaughtering, and/or processing of animals for food.
4. Prefers experience observing the postmortem exam of animals.
5. Prefers working knowledge of the principles of Hazard Analysis – Critical Control Point Plans (HACCP).
6. Prefers experience filling out HACCP records.
7. Prefers working knowledge of Sanitation and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP).
8. Prefers elementary knowledge of disease or abnormal conditions of animals, poultry, carcasses, or meat and poultry products.
9. Prefers elementary knowledge of how to identify adulterated product.
Conditions of Employment
- Requires a valid Illinois Driver’s License and ability to travel between job assignments.
- Requires ability to lift materials weighing up to 20 pounds.
- Requires ability to successfully pass background check.
- Requires ability to tolerate exposure to unpleasant odors in slaughterhouses and in meat preparation areas, to extreme cold in meat lockers and heat in processing areas.
- Requires ability to use safety practices around dangerous meat cutting and processing machinery.
- Requires residency in parts of Cook County North of 1-290 (Eisenhower Expressway) or DuPage County north of Roosevelt Rd (IL Rt 38) and east of I-355.
Work Hours: 7:00 am - 3:30 pm/Monday-Friday/daily work hours may vary
Work Location: 801 E Sangamon Ave Springfield, IL 62702-1813
Agency Contact:
Bureau of Human Resources
Email: AGR.HumanResources@illinois.gov
Phone #:217-785-5099
Job Function: Legal and Compliance
This position DOES NOT contain “Specialized Skills” (as that term is used in CBAs).
AGR values employees with different backgrounds, life experiences, and talents.
AGR offers a robust benefit package including:
- Monday - Friday work schedule
- Flexible work schedules in many program areas
- Health, life, vision, and dental insurance
- Ten (10) weeks paid maternity/paternity leave
- Pension plan
- Deferred compensation, and other pre-tax benefit programs
- Employees earn twelve (12) paid sick days annually
- Ten to twenty-five (10-25) paid vacation days (based on years of service)
- Employees earn three (3) paid personal days (pro-rated based on start date)
- Thirteen - fourteen (13-14) paid state holidays annually
If this opportunity appeals to you, please apply today!
Certain provisions of the revolving door restrictions contained in 5 ILCS 430/5-45 apply to this
position. As a result, the employee should be aware that if offered non-State employment during
State employment or within one year immediately after ending State employment, the employee shall,
prior to accepting any such non-State employment offer, notify the Office of the Executive
Inspector General for the Agencies of the Illinois Governor (“OEIG”) or may be subject to a fine.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Use the “Apply” button at the top right or bottom right of this posting to begin the application process.
If you are not already signed in, you will be prompted to do so.
State employees should sign in to the career portal for State of Illinois employees – a link is available at the top left of the work.Illinois.gov homepage in the blue ribbon.
Non-State employees should log in on the using the “View Profile” link in the top right of the work.Illinois.gov homepage in the blue ribbon. If you have never before signed in, you will be prompted to create an account.
If you have questions about how to apply, please see the following resources:
State employees: Log in to the career portal for State employees [KS(1] and review the Internal Candidate Application Job Aid HERE [KS(2]
Non-State employees: on work.Illinois.gov – click “Application Procedures” in the footer of every page of the website.
