MEAT & POULTRY INSPECTOR - CIRCUIT 5-2 (CLINTON CO.) Target title for posting 53733

State of Illinois•Springfield, WA

3d•Remote

About The Position

This position serves in a regional capacity and requires the incumbent to work from their home location as a base of daily operational headquarters to service their designated worksites. The role involves performing processing inspections in state and/or federal plants on a variety of fresh, smoked, cured, or cooked meat and poultry products. The inspector will also conduct antemortem and postmortem inspections of animals and/or poultry, inspect processing procedures daily for proper product formulations and labeling, and submit product samples for laboratory analysis to determine compliance with laws and regulations. Overtime is a condition of employment, and employees may be requested or required to work overtime, including evenings and weekends. The job is classified as light work, involving lifting no more than 20 pounds at a time with frequent lifting or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 pounds. This position requires residency in Clinton, St. Clair, or Washington County.

Requirements

Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to the completion of high school (preferably with courses in algebra, biology, or chemistry).
Requires the successful completion of an agency approved meat and poultry inspection training program.
Requires completion of a name-based background screening and self-disclosure of criminal history.
Requires the ability to successfully pass a preemployment physical.
Requires ability to travel in the performance of duties.
Requires appropriate, valid driver’s license.
Requires residency in one of the following counties: Clinton, St. Clair or Washington.
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.

Nice To Haves

Prefers working knowledge of the methods and techniques of antemortem and postmortem inspections involving meat producing animals and poultry.
Prefers working knowledge of applicable laws, rules and regulations governing the inspection and processing of meat and poultry products.
Prefers working knowledge of the use of additives and preservatives used in processing meat and poultry products.
Prefers experience conducting antemortem and postmortem inspections of animals, poultry, carcasses and parts to determine the presence or absence of disease or abnormal conditions.
Prefers experience removing, dissecting and analyzing glands, organs and parts of animals for signs of obvious disease.
Prefers elementary knowledge of computer hardware and software.
Prefers experience operating a computer and the software and database applications utilized by the agency.
Prefers experience analyzing and determining the compliance of processing procedures and formulations to law and regulations.

Responsibilities

Performs processing inspections in state and/or federal plants on a variety of fresh, smoked, cured or cooked meat and poultry products.
Conducts antemortem and postmortem inspections in state and/or federal plants of animals and/or poultry.
Inspects processing procedures in plants daily, for proper product formulations and labeling on product.
Submits product samples for laboratory analysis to determine compliance with laws and regulations.
Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.