FOOD & DAIRY INSPECTOR 2* - 07142026-79124

Qualifications

Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree and two years of full time work experience in the planning of nutritional food programs for individuals or establishments, or any experience involved with adherence to proper hygiene or sanitation of food, dairy, water, or related environmental health issues, including but not limited to, (1) the inspection of agricultural or industrial establishments, commodities, or equipment; (2) the training of retail staff who prepare food; (3) the proper storage and processing of food, dairy, or water commodities or (4) dairy farm work.

Necessary Special Qualifications: A valid vehicle operator's license may be required for employment in some positions.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates procedures followed in the manufacture and processing of food and dairy products;
• Inspects retail food stores, dairy farms, and food manufacturing and storage facilities;
• Identifies public health concerns related to potential sources of food contamination;
• Visually inspects vehicles, machines, and processing procedures;
• Evaluates procedures to ensure rules and regulations are being met by testing product and measuring process times, temperatures, flow rates, and storage equipment procedures;
• Prepares and maintains inspection, activity, and expense reports;
• Gathers background and operational data for planning purposes and for use in required federal reports;
• Maintains current files of use of time, personnel actions and behaviors, and other reports related to each establishment.

Training and Certification

• Trains and certifies individuals, onsite, to legally and properly acquire dairy samples in accordance with the requirements of the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance;
• Trains samplers on monitoring how samples are acquired, labeled, stored, transported, and delivered;
• Accompanies lower level inspectors on the job to train them to perform inspections correctly.

Emergency Response

• Responds to emergency disaster areas such as floods, fires, explosions, nuclear exposures, food transport accidents, and tornadoes;
• Determines potential hazards to the immediate food or water chain which includes any physical, chemical, microbiological, or allergen contaminates;
• Takes necessary actions to ensure public health safety including the seizure, condemnation, or destruction of product;
• Follows procedures and documents the circumstances for the seizure or destruction of products according to state and federal regulations.

Undercover Inspection

• Conducts an undercover inspection of potential violations of the Prevention of Youth Access to Tobacco Act;
• Obtains parental consent to work with minors between ages 14 - 17;
• Instructs minor(s) in an acting role to attempt to purchase tobacco product;
• Documents events of the attempted transaction.

Consumer Complaints

• Performs onsite visits in order to respond to consumer food and dairy complaints;
• Verifies the validity of complaints, acquires samples for testing or analysis if necessary, documents findings, and communicates results to complainant.