Poultry & Egg Regulatory Inspector

Nunez Community College; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Job summary

The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry is seeking an Agriculture Specialist to perform regulatory egg and poultry inspections, grading, and certification duties in East Baton Rouge Parish and surrounding areas. Responsibilities include obtaining USDA licenses, enforcing the Louisiana Egg Marketing Act, and coordinating emergency programs as part of the Incident Management Team.

The role requires relevant experience or a qualifying bachelor’s degree in a listed field, with

Qualifications

• Three years of experience in administrative services or compliance inspection
• Experience inspecting weights/measuring devices or related regulatory areas
• Bachelor's degree in forestry, agricultural, biological, chemical, environmental, health, physical science, IT, mathematics or business

Responsibilities

• Performs regulatory inspections to ensure proper grade of egg and egg products in their assigned work area as required by the Louisiana Egg Marketing Act.
• Obtains and maintains a USDA license and performs grading of eggs, poultry and poultry products.
• Ensures that egg and egg products have the proper grade assigned by checking retail stores, distribution warehouses, or any other facility that handles egg and egg products.
• Takes appropriate enforcement actions to ensure regulatory non-compliances are corrected.
• Coordinate and ensure that required field work inspections are completed in a timely and efficient manner.
• Inspects and grades eggs, poultry or poultry products in a plant environment as a relief grader to ensure that all USDA regulations are followed and the product is in compliance.
• Ensures that all Federal and State rules and regulations governing eggs, poultry & poultry products are followed.
• Issues USDA certificates as needed, keeps USDA files up to date as required and works with appropriate USDA supervision as required by Federal/State cooperative agreement.
• Responsible for grading and certification of eggs or poultry for state institutions and parish schools.
• Ensures that poultry and egg contracts adhere to the specifications requested by state institutions or applicants.
• Assist with coordination of Emergency Programs including planning, exercising, responding and recovery from all hazards affecting agriculture and the citizens of Louisiana as a member of LDAF Incident Management Team as assigned by Incident Commander.
• Performs other duties as may be assigned.

Skills

Policies & Procedures

Learning Actively

Judgment making

Education

Bachelor's degree in sciences/IT

Job description

The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry is seeking an Agriculture Specialist to perform regulatory egg and poultry inspections, grading, and certification duties in East Baton Rouge Parish and surrounding areas. Responsibilities include obtaining USDA licenses, enforcing the Louisiana Egg Marketing Act, and coordinating emergency programs as part of the Incident Management Team.

The role requires relevant experience or a qualifying bachelor’s degree in a listed field, with