Insect Production Worker Supervisor

About the role

The Insect Production Worker Supervisor supervises and performs routine, repetitive assignments involved in insect mass production, packaging, storing, sterilization, and delivering of insects, and is also involved in the cleaning, disinfection, and maintenance of work areas in support of the insect production program in the New World Screwworm (NWS) Dispersal Center.

Responsibilities

• Plans the use of Insect Production Workers, equipment, facilities, materials, and tools on a day-to-day or project-by-project basis.
• Observes work in progress to anticipate and resolve problems, reassigns personnel within groups as necessary and coordinates work among workers to maintain work progress and meet schedules.
• Supervises and assists in operations connected with the maintenance of one or multiple colonies kept at the facility at all times and operations connected with expansion into mass production.
• Maintains a large colony of insects for the purpose of providing eggs, larvae, and pupae for the rearing facility and cooperators, and assists in the day-to-day operations of the facility.
• Closely monitors the life cycle and health of insects and the environmental conditions in the larval development and pupal harvest.
• Oversees any quality control of NWSDF methods development testing and maintains records and data as requested.
• Directs, coordinates, and assists in activities in the outside cleanup area daily activities.
• Assists in the installation of improvements to, and repair and maintenance of, facility and equipment.

Requirements

Individuals who were born male after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.

Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.

Successful completion of one-year probationary period, unless previously served. Refer to the Next Steps section for more information.

Subject to one-year supervisory/managerial probationary period unless prior service is creditable. New USDA supervisors must successfully complete all components of the required training program before the end of their probationary period.

Direct Deposit: Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.

Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit E-Verify at https://www.e-verify.gov/.

All USDA employees are required to be enrolled in Continuous Vetting, which authorizes government agencies to receive notifications of criminal activity on individuals who hold low risk, public trust, or national security positions.

Lifting may occasionally exceed fifty (50) pounds.

Must have the ability to lift, push, and pull wheeled rearing racks and equipment and endure high/low temperatures and humidity for time intervals of two to three (2-3) hours.

Protective clothing and/or eye protection is mandatory for some tasks.

Qualifications

To qualify, you must show you have had training and experience of sufficient scope and quality to provide you with the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position. Your answers to the vacancy specific questions must be supported by the work experience in your resume. For example, if you respond in the affirmative when questioned whether you have experience rearing insects, your resume must include this experience, mindful that experience may not be inferred by job title.

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 and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

This position does not have an education qualification requirement.