Viability Seed Laboratory Supervisor
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, no invention. Remove boilerplate like recruitment open until filled, dates, application instructions, EEO, etc. Also remove navigation, legal, etc. Keep substantive info: description of agency, opportunity, duties, qualifications, benefits, pay, schedule? There's mention of pay: base pay range and 15% recruitment/retention pay per month equals $1083. Also mention location Yakima, Washington, full-time permanent. Schedule? Not explicit; maybe full-time implies schedule but not given. We should not create Schedule section unless posting actually states it. It doesn't give specific schedule like Monday-Friday 8-5, so omit.
Benefits: there is a section "Employee Benefits" describing flexible work schedules, teleworking, benefits package, 12 paid holidays, PPE provided, etc. Also mention "More than Just a Paycheck!" but that's more boilerplate? It's still benefits description. We'll include Benefits section with that content.
Qualifications: there is "Qualifications Who should apply?" and "Preferred/Desired Qualifications". Also "Supplemental Information" includes benefits but we already have.
We need to use for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive info. So we need to include all details from duties, qualifications, benefits, pay, etc.
We need to decide sections: About the role (maybe description of agency and opportunity). Responsibilities (duties). Requirements (qualifications). Skills? Not explicitly listed separate; maybe we can combine with qualifications. Benefits. Pay. Possibly "Location" but not a standard heading; we could put location in About the role paragraph.
We must not create sections with filler. So we need to ensure each heading has substantive content.
Let's extract substantive content:
- Agency description: "The Washington State Department of Agriculture has been serving the state for more than 100 years... etc." That's about the role/organization.
- Opportunity: description of Commodity inspection Division, Seed Program, etc. Could be part of About the role.
- Duties: long list of duties.
- Qualifications: "Professionals With Seven (7) years of related laboratory experience including three years at a level equivalent to a Laboratory Technician 2 or higher. College education involving major study in laboratory science related to agriculture may be substituted year for year for the required general experience.Must obtain certification with Association of Official Seed Analysts (AOSA) OR with Society of Commercial Seed Technologists (SCRT) being certified in Viability testing within 18 months and remain in good standing.Current with all continued education requirements for membership with AOSA or SCST." plus Preferred/Desired Qualifications: "One (1) or more years' experience related to Agriculture seed production/testing, Pacific Northwest grass, reclamation and crop productions and seed testing.ACO Authorized Certification Official with USDA PCIT.ASL Canadian Seed Grader"
- Benefits: "Employee Benefits A healthy work/life balance, which may include flexible work schedules, and teleworking.WSDA provides an excellent benefits package beyond traditional benefits. State employment offers Dependent Care Assistance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, Tuition Waiver, Deferred Compensation, Employee Recognition Leave; click here for more information.12 paid Holidays & Vacation and Leave Accruals.All Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required will be provided by the agency." plus later "More than Just a Paycheck! Employee benefits are not just about the kind of services you get, they are also about how much you may have to pay out of pocket. Washington State offers one of the most competitive benefits packages in the nation...." That's more benefits description but somewhat generic; we can include but need to avoid filler. It's still substantive about benefits. We'll include.
- Pay: "The base pay offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the preferred candidate's job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The typical starting salary for this position is: Range 56 Step A $64,512 - Step M $86,688 annually. Plus 15% recruitment/retention pay per month which equals $1083."
- Schedule: Not given explicitly; we should not create.
- Location: "This position is located in Yakima, Washington and is not a union represented position." Could be in About the role.
We must not include application instructions, boilerplate like "This recruitment is open until filled..." etc. Also remove EEO, legal, contact info? The instructions say remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we should strip out sections like "How To Apply", "Contact Us", "Equity at WSDA", "Veteran's Preference", "Persons with a disability", etc. Also remove "Important Notes" maybe? It contains substantive info about position location, pay, etc. We'll keep that content but not the heading "Important Notes". We'll integrate.
We must not repeat job title as heading. The job title is "Viability Seed Laboratory Supervisor". We'll not use that as heading.
We need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's structure:
About the Role
... agency description and opportunity ... location ...
Responsibilities
- ... each duty as li
Requirements
... qualifications (mandatory) ...
Preferred Qualifications
maybe use for Preferred/Desired Qualifications. The instruction says use headings for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. It didn't list Preferred Qualifications but we can treat as Qualifications? Could combine but we have both mandatory and preferred. Could make a single Qualifications section with both mandatory and preferred, using
for prose and
for lists if needed. But we need to preserve all detail. We could do:
Qualifications
Mandatory: ...
- Preferred: ...
But we need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Preferred qualifications is a list; we can put as
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Similarly Benefits: we can list as
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Pay: we can put as
.
Let's extract duties list items from the long paragraph. We need to split into sensible bullet points. Must preserve all substantive info; we can break into separate li items each covering a duty. Must not invent or summarize away detail; we can split but must keep the info. We'll produce bullet points for each duty sentence.
Let's list duties from the text:
"Supervision of Laboratory technicians and assistants within Viability sections of the Seed Laboratory."
"Plan, schedule, assign and review the daily work of staff."
"Conduct quality control on samples performed by direct reports."
"Adjust assignments and schedule to maintain adequate staffing levels."
"Respond to fluctuating workloads."
"Communicate schedule changes to staff and industry."
"Evaluate employee performance levels."
"Assess training needs, coaching, and mentoring of staff and assigns qualified trainers."
"Provide information and instructions on changes that occur in the marketplace."
"Use program approved training material."
"Evaluate trainee progress by interviewing trainees and trainer and using knowledge assessments and tests."
"Recommend AOSA accreditation for qualified trainees."
"Serve as a liaison between lab staff and management to ensure lab procedures are followed."
"Exercise technical and administrative supervision over all laboratory staff within Viability and filing."
"Review, audit and approving staff’s daily timesheets and TEMS vouchers for accuracy and completeness."
"Oversee samples that are being checked in and processed according to receipt and special services such as rush, super rush, service samples and customized stakeholder requests."
"Verify that procedures are being followed, ISO 9001:2015, USDA ASL, AOSA, ISTA, Canadian, Phytosanitary, safety, and any other specialized procedures or stakeholder requests."
"Participate in leadership and all staff meetings."
"Performs complex technical laboratory work, research, routine and advanced laboratory testing and analysis"
"Perform the work of daily laboratory positions taks, perform seed laboratory work."
"Fulfill the needs of daily viability area tasks when needed."
"Assist with additional laboratory data entry in Pure Harvest in the absence of office staff."
"Apply certification standards according to Chapter 16-301 and 16-302 WAC, Canadian Seed Testing, International Seed Testing Association or other certification standards and stakeholders' requests."
"Enter and retrieve data from a specialized Seed Laboratory testing program."
"Review and sign completed laboratory reports before released to the stakeholder."
"Provide RST seal and signature on final reports when requested."
"Serves as an active member on program ISO and ASL accreditation committees, representing the Viability section of the seed laboratory."
"Collaborate with ISO coordinator in preparation for annual ISO and ASL audit."
"Create and maintain SOPs (Standard Operating Procedure) and flow charts."
"Work with staff on corrective action reports and continuous improvements."
"Evaluate suppliers and supply once received according to ISO and USDA ASL."
"Ensure proper Viability supplies are obtained and used according to testing standards."
"Oversee annual purging of stored samples."
That's many. We'll output as
- each.
Now Benefits: list items:
- Healthy work/life balance, which may include flexible work schedules, and teleworking.
- Excellent benefits package beyond traditional benefits.
- State employment offers Dependent Care Assistance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, Tuition Waiver, Deferred Compensation, Employee Recognition Leave.
- 12 paid Holidays & Vacation and Leave Accruals.
- All Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required will be provided by the agency.
- Washington State offers one of the most competitive benefits packages in the nation (maybe from "More than Just a Paycheck!" but it's still benefit). We'll include as bullet: Washington State offers one of the most competitive benefits packages in the nation.
But need to avoid fluff; still it's substantive.
Now Qualifications mandatory: we need to capture as prose maybe bullet list.
Mandatory:
- Seven (7) years of related laboratory experience including three years at a level equivalent to a Laboratory Technician 2 or higher.
- College education involving major study in laboratory science related to agriculture may be substituted year for year for the required general experience.
- Must obtain certification with Association of Official Seed Analysts (AOSA) OR with Society of Commercial Seed Technologists (SCRT) being certified in Viability testing within 18 months and remain in good standing.
- Current with all continued education requirements for membership with AOSA or SCST.
Preferred:
- One (1) or more years' experience related to Agriculture seed production/testing, Pacific Northwest grass, reclamation and crop productions and seed testing.
- ACO Authorized Certification Official with USDA PCIT.
- ASL Canadian Seed Grader
Now Pay: we have base pay range and 15% recruitment/retention pay per month equals $1083.
We'll put in
.
Now About the Role: combine agency description, opportunity, location, maybe mention full-time permanent, not union represented.
Let's craft paragraph:
"The Washington State Department of Agriculture has been serving the state for more than 100 years, keeping agriculture viable and vital while protecting consumers, public health, and the environment. The Commodity Inspection Division provides unbiased third‑party inspections for a wide variety of Washington
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose. We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive info. So we need to include all details from duties, qualifications, benefits, pay, etc. We need to decide sections: About the role (maybe description of agency and opportunity). Responsibilities (duties). Requirements (qualifications). Skills? Not explicitly listed separate; maybe we can combine with qualifications. Benefits. Pay. Possibly "Location" but not a standard heading; we could put location in About the role paragraph. We must not create sections with filler. So we need to ensure each heading has substantive content. Let's extract substantive content: - Agency description: "The Washington State Department of Agriculture has been serving the state for more than 100 years... etc." That's about the role/organization. - Opportunity: description of Commodity inspection Division, Seed Program, etc. Could be part of About the role. - Duties: long list of duties. - Qualifications: "Professionals With Seven (7) years of related laboratory experience including three years at a level equivalent to a Laboratory Technician 2 or higher. College education involving major study in laboratory science related to agriculture may be substituted year for year for the required general experience.Must obtain certification with Association of Official Seed Analysts (AOSA) OR with Society of Commercial Seed Technologists (SCRT) being certified in Viability testing within 18 months and remain in good standing.Current with all continued education requirements for membership with AOSA or SCST." plus Preferred/Desired Qualifications: "One (1) or more years' experience related to Agriculture seed production/testing, Pacific Northwest grass, reclamation and crop productions and seed testing.ACO Authorized Certification Official with USDA PCIT.ASL Canadian Seed Grader" - Benefits: "Employee Benefits A healthy work/life balance, which may include flexible work schedules, and teleworking.WSDA provides an excellent benefits package beyond traditional benefits. State employment offers Dependent Care Assistance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, Tuition Waiver, Deferred Compensation, Employee Recognition Leave; click here for more information.12 paid Holidays & Vacation and Leave Accruals.All Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required will be provided by the agency." plus later "More than Just a Paycheck! Employee benefits are not just about the kind of services you get, they are also about how much you may have to pay out of pocket. Washington State offers one of the most competitive benefits packages in the nation...." That's more benefits description but somewhat generic; we can include but need to avoid filler. It's still substantive about benefits. We'll include. - Pay: "The base pay offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the preferred candidate's job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The typical starting salary for this position is: Range 56 Step A $64,512 - Step M $86,688 annually. Plus 15% recruitment/retention pay per month which equals $1083." - Schedule: Not given explicitly; we should not create. - Location: "This position is located in Yakima, Washington and is not a union represented position." Could be in About the role. We must not include application instructions, boilerplate like "This recruitment is open until filled..." etc. Also remove EEO, legal, contact info? The instructions say remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we should strip out sections like "How To Apply", "Contact Us", "Equity at WSDA", "Veteran's Preference", "Persons with a disability", etc. Also remove "Important Notes" maybe? It contains substantive info about position location, pay, etc. We'll keep that content but not the heading "Important Notes". We'll integrate. We must not repeat job title as heading. The job title is "Viability Seed Laboratory Supervisor". We'll not use that as heading. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's structure:
About the Role
... agency description and opportunity ... location ...
Responsibilities
- ... each duty as li
Requirements
... qualifications (mandatory) ...
Preferred Qualifications
maybe usefor Preferred/Desired Qualifications. The instruction says use headings for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. It didn't list Preferred Qualifications but we can treat as Qualifications? Could combine but we have both mandatory and preferred. Could make a single Qualifications section with both mandatory and preferred, using
for prose and
- for lists if needed. But we need to preserve all detail. We could do:
- Preferred: ...
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Preferred qualifications is a list; we can put as
- .
Similarly Benefits: we can list as
- .
Pay: we can put as
. Let's extract duties list items from the long paragraph. We need to split into sensible bullet points. Must preserve all substantive info; we can break into separate li items each covering a duty. Must not invent or summarize away detail; we can split but must keep the info. We'll produce bullet points for each duty sentence. Let's list duties from the text: "Supervision of Laboratory technicians and assistants within Viability sections of the Seed Laboratory." "Plan, schedule, assign and review the daily work of staff." "Conduct quality control on samples performed by direct reports." "Adjust assignments and schedule to maintain adequate staffing levels." "Respond to fluctuating workloads." "Communicate schedule changes to staff and industry." "Evaluate employee performance levels." "Assess training needs, coaching, and mentoring of staff and assigns qualified trainers." "Provide information and instructions on changes that occur in the marketplace." "Use program approved training material." "Evaluate trainee progress by interviewing trainees and trainer and using knowledge assessments and tests." "Recommend AOSA accreditation for qualified trainees." "Serve as a liaison between lab staff and management to ensure lab procedures are followed." "Exercise technical and administrative supervision over all laboratory staff within Viability and filing." "Review, audit and approving staff’s daily timesheets and TEMS vouchers for accuracy and completeness." "Oversee samples that are being checked in and processed according to receipt and special services such as rush, super rush, service samples and customized stakeholder requests." "Verify that procedures are being followed, ISO 9001:2015, USDA ASL, AOSA, ISTA, Canadian, Phytosanitary, safety, and any other specialized procedures or stakeholder requests." "Participate in leadership and all staff meetings." "Performs complex technical laboratory work, research, routine and advanced laboratory testing and analysis" "Perform the work of daily laboratory positions taks, perform seed laboratory work." "Fulfill the needs of daily viability area tasks when needed." "Assist with additional laboratory data entry in Pure Harvest in the absence of office staff." "Apply certification standards according to Chapter 16-301 and 16-302 WAC, Canadian Seed Testing, International Seed Testing Association or other certification standards and stakeholders' requests." "Enter and retrieve data from a specialized Seed Laboratory testing program." "Review and sign completed laboratory reports before released to the stakeholder." "Provide RST seal and signature on final reports when requested." "Serves as an active member on program ISO and ASL accreditation committees, representing the Viability section of the seed laboratory." "Collaborate with ISO coordinator in preparation for annual ISO and ASL audit." "Create and maintain SOPs (Standard Operating Procedure) and flow charts." "Work with staff on corrective action reports and continuous improvements." "Evaluate suppliers and supply once received according to ISO and USDA ASL." "Ensure proper Viability supplies are obtained and used according to testing standards." "Oversee annual purging of stored samples." That's many. We'll output as
- each.
Now Benefits: list items:
- Healthy work/life balance, which may include flexible work schedules, and teleworking.
- Excellent benefits package beyond traditional benefits.
- State employment offers Dependent Care Assistance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, Tuition Waiver, Deferred Compensation, Employee Recognition Leave.
- 12 paid Holidays & Vacation and Leave Accruals.
- All Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required will be provided by the agency.
- Washington State offers one of the most competitive benefits packages in the nation (maybe from "More than Just a Paycheck!" but it's still benefit). We'll include as bullet: Washington State offers one of the most competitive benefits packages in the nation.
But need to avoid fluff; still it's substantive.
Now Qualifications mandatory: we need to capture as prose maybe bullet list.
Mandatory:
- Seven (7) years of related laboratory experience including three years at a level equivalent to a Laboratory Technician 2 or higher.
- College education involving major study in laboratory science related to agriculture may be substituted year for year for the required general experience.
- Must obtain certification with Association of Official Seed Analysts (AOSA) OR with Society of Commercial Seed Technologists (SCRT) being certified in Viability testing within 18 months and remain in good standing.
- Current with all continued education requirements for membership with AOSA or SCST.
Preferred:
- One (1) or more years' experience related to Agriculture seed production/testing, Pacific Northwest grass, reclamation and crop productions and seed testing.
- ACO Authorized Certification Official with USDA PCIT.
- ASL Canadian Seed Grader
Now Pay: we have base pay range and 15% recruitment/retention pay per month equals $1083.
We'll put in
. Now About the Role: combine agency description, opportunity, location, maybe mention full-time permanent, not union represented. Let's craft paragraph: "The Washington State Department of Agriculture has been serving the state for more than 100 years, keeping agriculture viable and vital while protecting consumers, public health, and the environment. The Commodity Inspection Division provides unbiased third‑party inspections for a wide variety of Washington
- each.
Now Benefits: list items:
- Healthy work/life balance, which may include flexible work schedules, and teleworking.
- Excellent benefits package beyond traditional benefits.
- State employment offers Dependent Care Assistance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, Tuition Waiver, Deferred Compensation, Employee Recognition Leave.
- 12 paid Holidays & Vacation and Leave Accruals.
- All Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required will be provided by the agency.
- Washington State offers one of the most competitive benefits packages in the nation (maybe from "More than Just a Paycheck!" but it's still benefit). We'll include as bullet: Washington State offers one of the most competitive benefits packages in the nation.
But need to avoid fluff; still it's substantive.
Now Qualifications mandatory: we need to capture as prose maybe bullet list.
Mandatory:
- Seven (7) years of related laboratory experience including three years at a level equivalent to a Laboratory Technician 2 or higher.
- College education involving major study in laboratory science related to agriculture may be substituted year for year for the required general experience.
- Must obtain certification with Association of Official Seed Analysts (AOSA) OR with Society of Commercial Seed Technologists (SCRT) being certified in Viability testing within 18 months and remain in good standing.
- Current with all continued education requirements for membership with AOSA or SCST.
Preferred:
- One (1) or more years' experience related to Agriculture seed production/testing, Pacific Northwest grass, reclamation and crop productions and seed testing.
- ACO Authorized Certification Official with USDA PCIT.
- ASL Canadian Seed Grader
Now Pay: we have base pay range and 15% recruitment/retention pay per month equals $1083.
We'll put in
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Pay: we can put as
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Similarly Benefits: we can list as
Qualifications
Mandatory: ...