Supervisory Insect Production Worker

About the Role

The Supervisory Insect Production Worker provides first-level supervisory guidance and oversight, ensuring the optimum utilization of personnel on a day-to-day or project-by-project basis over Insect Production Workers at the assigned insect rearing facility.

APHIS is an emergency response agency. This means that all Agency employees may be asked or assigned to participate in rotating temporary duty assignments to support emergency programs at some time during their careers with APHIS.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and assist in operations connected with the maintenance of colonies and expansion into mass production.
• Train and schedule the work of USDA and/or cooperator-employed workers.
• Identify existing and potential problems related to access, space, and labor requirements; monitor the condition of equipment; and assist in cleaning, maintaining, repairing, and upgrading equipment.
• Adhere to work priorities, project schedules, resources, and detailed work plans.
• Inspect completed work for quality and work order requirements, and report possible or actual work delays to supervisor.
• Participate in staff meetings to receive new policies and guidelines, personnel programs, production schedules, and new rearing strategies.

Qualifications

To qualify, you must demonstrate 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 claim experience rearing insects, your resume must include this experience—experience may not be inferred by job title alone.

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.

Pay

$34.55 - $40.31 USD per hour

Schedule

Position Start Date: 08/07/2026
Position Close Date: 08/13/2026