Student Trainee (Inspection)

Student Trainee (Inspection)

These positions are Excepted Service appointments in the FSIS Raleigh District. Employees coordinate inspection/enforcement activities in more than 6,000 federally inspected establishments nationwide, as well as at import establishments, ensuring that the products that FSIS regulates are safe, wholesome, and properly labeled.

As a Student Trainee (Inspection), your duties will include:

• Working in a slaughter/processed products plant or department and receiving training in the objectives, methods and techniques of meat and/or poultry slaughter and processing inspection.
• Receiving on-the-job training in such areas as ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection of meat and/or poultry slaughter by directly observing and assisting a fully qualified Food Inspector.
• Completing classroom-type training to include directed reading assignments and self-paced audiovisual instruction.
• Becoming familiar with the basic anatomical, sex, age, and behavioral characteristics of various food animal species, the various cuts of meat, sanitation procedures, and the general physical layout of a slaughter establishment.
• Working with Consumer Safety Inspector or Food Inspector observing or assisting with slaughter/processing tasks such as labeling verification, sanitation inspection, export verification, HACCP verification, SSOP verification, and review of records.
• Observing or assisting with performing net weight tasks, collecting samples of product for pathogen testing, livestock/poultry inspection processes and other duties associated with meat or poultry processing.
• Assisting the Inspector-in-Charge with the daily and weekly reports associated with inspection activity, such as obtaining required information and preparing and distributing the reports.
• Assisting with maintaining various files for reports, labels, supplies, etc.
• Observing or assisting in the preparation of samples for various on-site testing procedures related to residue monitoring.