Job Opportunities with the Fed Government and State Department of Health and Human Services.
Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM). Supervisory PHV (Public Health Veterinarian)
Duties
• planning, organizing, coordinating and adapting the full range of meat and poultry inspection operations in slaughter and/or processing establishments;
• ensuring establishments meet requirements of the Pathogen Reduction and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulations;
• overseeing other consumer protection, non-food safety concerns such as proper labeling and packaging;
• serving as team leader who works with and supervises other public health professionals to ensure establishments under our jurisdiction comply with sanitation standards and properly implement systems that control hazards from entering the food supply;
• enforcing Federal meat and poultry inspection procedures prior to slaughter and throughout the entire establishment, including humane handling, ante-mortem inspection, post-mortem inspection, processing operations, veterinary dispositions, and transportation and distribution of meat, poultry, and egg products to markets and retail stores
In this position, you will have a dynamic, multifaceted role protecting consumers as a Public Health Veterinarian. You will conduct food safety assessments of one or more slaughter and/or processing establishments to ensure processes, facilities, procedures and equipment are technically and scientifically sound and meet regulatory and public health protection regulations. Your duties will encompass closely planning, organizing, coordinating and adapting the full range of meat and poultry inspection operations in privately owned establishments.
You will be directing ante mortem and post mortem inspection of livestock and/or poultry to detect, identify and diagnose conditions that may render food products unfit for human consumption. You will utilize communication skills by regularly conferring with plant management to ensure regulatory requirements are met. In addition, you may supervise other FSIS employees such as one or more food inspectors and/or consumer safety inspectors. You will also be responsible for overseeing the humane handling and slaughter of livestock, and providing veterinary medical expertise on the proper disposition of animals and/or carcasses. As a Public Health Veterinarian, you will also ensure that plants meet requirements of the Pathogen Reduction and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulations, as well as overseeing other consumer protection, non-food safety concerns such as proper labeling.
You will conduct food safety assessments of one or more slaughter and/or processing establishments to ensure process, procedures, facilities and equipment are technically and scientifically sound and meet regulatory and public health protection regulations. Applicants need to have obtained a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) or equivalent degree, i.e., Veterinary Medical Doctor (VMD), from a school or college of veterinary medicine accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association Council on Education (AVMA).
Qualifications:
Degree: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) or equivalent degree, i.e., Veterinary Medical Doctor (VMD), obtained at a school or college of veterinary medicine accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association Council on Education (AVMA). The AVMA web site,
http://www.avma.org, has a listing of all AVMA-accredited veterinary medical schools.
.You must have a DVM degree (or will receive your DVM degree within the next nine months) from an AVMA accredited veterinary medical school. If you have a degree from a foreign veterinary medical school, that is not accredited by the AVMA, click on this REQUIREMENTS link.
You will start at either the AP-0701-03 or AP-0701-04. To qualify at the AP-0701-04, you must have:
•At least one year of post DVM specialized professional veterinary experience that demonstrates the ability to independently perform the veterinary medical duties required of the position; or
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A Master's degree, from an accredited college, in an area of specialization; or
Successfully completed two years of an internship, residency program, or fellowship training program in a discipline related to the position.