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Consumer Safety Inspector

USDA-FSIS · Dakota City, NE · 3 wk ago
HealthcareFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections only if posting has real specific content. The posting includes duties summary (first line) with bonuses etc. Also includes "Shifts and species will vary based on assignment." and contact info. Then "Requirements Qualifications" etc. We need to parse. We need headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections have content. - About the role: maybe not present. The posting does not have an explicit "About the role". Could we infer? Probably not. So we should not create About the role unless there is content. So skip. - Responsibilities: The duties summary line: "Duties Summary $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. For add'l information call Dr. Mark Johnson 605-553-8845 Employee may be detailed to any shift at any plant in the Des Moines District." This includes duties and also benefits. But we need to separate duties from benefits. The duties summary includes mention of bonuses etc. But those are benefits. We'll need to extract duties: maybe "Shifts and species will vary based on assignment. Employee may be detailed to any shift at any plant in the Des Moines District." Also contact info maybe not duty. We'll keep duties as those sentences. - Requirements: The posting has "Requirements Qualifications" then a block about specialized experience etc. That's qualifications. So we can put that under Qualifications section. Requirements maybe not separate; but we can combine? The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to include a section only when posting has real specific content for it. So we have qualifications content. Do we have separate "Requirements" content? The posting says "Requirements Qualifications Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements..." That's basically qualifications. There's no separate "Requirements" distinct from qualifications. So we could either put under Qualifications or Requirements. Since they are same, we could put under Qualifications and skip Requirements. Or we could put under Requirements and skip Qualifications. Which is more appropriate? The content is about qualifications and specialized experience. So Qualifications fits. - Skills: Not explicitly listed. Could infer from duties but not explicit. So skip. - Benefits: The posting mentions "$5,000 Sign on Bonus, Creditable Service for Annual Leave Accrual, Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, and Referral Bonus Awards are available." Also later details about incentives: $5,000 Sign on Bonus, Creditable Service for Annual Leave Accrual, Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, $1,000 Employee Referral Bonus Award. So we have benefits content. So we create Benefits section with list. - Pay: Not specified (no salary). So skip. - Schedule: Not specified (shifts vary). Could we consider "Shifts and species will vary based on assignment." as schedule info? It mentions shifts vary. That's schedule-related. But it's vague. The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state shifts vary, which is schedule info. So we could create Schedule section with that sentence. However we also have duty about shifts. Might be better to put schedule info under Schedule section. But we already used shifts in Responsibilities. We could separate: Responsibilities: duties like "Employee may be detailed to any shift at any plant in the Des Moines District." Schedule: "Shifts and species will vary based on assignment." However the duty summary also includes that. Might be duplication but okay. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all info: duties summary line includes bonuses etc (we will move bonuses to Benefits). The line also includes contact info: "For add'l information call Dr. Mark Johnson 605-553-8845". That's substantive; we need to keep it somewhere. Could be under Responsibilities or maybe a separate "Contact" but not allowed headings. Could fold into Responsibilities as a paragraph. Also "Employee may be detailed to any shift at any plant in the Des Moines District." is substantive. Now the qualifications section: we need to keep all the detailed specialized experience definitions for GS-05, GS-07, GS-08, GS-09. Also note about volunteer work, OPM standards, hazardous environment, etc. Also note about FSIS description and benefits package etc. That is also substantive; could be part of Benefits? Actually the paragraph about "A career with the U.S. Government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package..." is generic benefits but still substantive. Could be included in Benefits section as well. We need to avoid boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. The posting includes some generic statements like "USDA is a great place to start or continue your career." That's not boilerplate? It's promotional but still substantive. We'll keep. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID. We must output only HTML fragment. Let's structure:

Responsibilities

Shifts and species will vary based on assignment. Employee may be detailed to any shift at any plant in the Des Moines District. For additional information, call Dr. Mark Johnson at 605-553-8845.

Qualifications

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: Experience that provided 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.
Then we need to include grade-specific definitions. Could be nested lists. We need to preserve all detail. Let's reproduce the definitions exactly as given, but we can format as
  • for each grade level. We'll include: For the 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. You are to show in your resume examples such as applying proper techniques for collecting samples and/or performing field tests and examinations (e.g. identifying abnormalities in the product or production environment and recommending corrective actions), developing written reports and/or reporting findings of results orally (e.g. documenting abnormalities in the product or production environment and communicating those findings to others), and/or skill in maintaining effective personal contacts with a variety of individuals (e.g. discussing findings with internal or external contacts regarding the food safety standards established in the production environment), or other similar work making determinations on products for human consumption or the production environment (e.g. ensuring conformance with established standards). Such experience may have been acquired working positions such as consumer safety inspector or inspection aid, food inspector, public health inspector, quality inspection specialist, or other related position. For the GS-07 Level: In addition to the qualifications above, applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-05 level), and incumbents are expected to have performed standard and recurrent duties on an independent basis. 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. For the GS-08 Level: Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-07 level). In addition to the qualifications above, experience must include 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 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. For the GS-09 Level: Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-08 level). In addition to the qualifications above, incumbents are expected to have experience working at a more independent level than lower graded CSIs, which may include 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 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. Failure to fully meet a functional requirement is not automatically disqualifying. The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) responsible for protecting the public's health by ensuring the safety of the Nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and processed egg products. USDA is a great place to start or continue your career. For more information visit FSIS. A career with the U.S. Government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Learn more about federal benefits. FSIS offers various recruitment incentives to newly hired eligible Consumer Safety Inspectors (CSI). You may be eligible for one or more of the following: $5,000 Sign on Bonus: Newly appointed only. Creditable Service for Annual Leave Accrual: Calculated to determine the annual leave accrual rate Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program: For more information please visit: PSLF Program $1,000 Employee Referral Bonus Award eligible: Paid to employees who refer applicants who are hired with FSIS. For more information on incentives, see Additional Information. We need to separate Benefits section: we can list the incentives. We have already included the incentives paragraph in Qualifications; but we should move them to Benefits to avoid duplication. However the instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; we can keep it in Benefits and not duplicate elsewhere. So we should remove that paragraph from Qualifications and put it in Benefits. Thus Qualifications will stop before the incentives paragraph. We'll need to cut off at "FSIS offers various recruitment incentives..." and put that into Benefits. Let's craft Benefits section:

    Benefits

    • $5,000 Sign on Bonus: Newly appointed only.
    • Creditable Service for Annual Leave Accrual: Calculated to determine the annual leave accrual rate
    • Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program: For more information please visit: PSLF Program
    • $1,000 Employee Referral Bonus Award eligible: Paid to employees who refer applicants who are hired with FSIS.

    A career with the U.S. Government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Learn more

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