Overview
Are you knowledgeable about food safety regulations? If you answered yes, this opportunity might be perfect for you! The Division of Food Safety is essential in safeguarding the health of both Pennsylvanians and visitors by overseeing the vast array of dining establishments, retail food outlets, and food production facilities throughout the state. This division ensures that these entities adhere to stringent food safety laws, thereby maintaining high standards for public health. If you are passionate about food safety and want to make a difference, we encourage you to apply today!
DESCRIPTION OF WORK
In this role, you will take on the critical responsibility of performing comprehensive food safety inspections across a diverse array of facilities. This includes dairy processing plants, equipment, and farms that are engaged in various stages of food handling, processing, bottling, packaging, and distribution. Your inspection duties will cover a broad spectrum of operations, such as food wholesale and retail outlets, manufacturing sites, and storage facilities. Specific areas of focus will include shellfish processing plants, food vending services, retail food establishments, public dining venues, school cafeterias, catering operations, dining facilities at summer camps and campgrounds, maple syrup production sites, produce farms, egg processing facilities, and seasonal farm label camps.
In addition to inspections, you will assess plans, blueprints, and materials pertinent to the construction, installation, or modification of dairy systems, including water supply and pipeline milking systems on dairy farms, ensuring that all operations adhere to established safety standards. Your role may also require travel to neighboring counties to provide support for various specialty inspections, particularly those related to Dairy and Milk regulated facilities.
Work Schedule and Additional Information:
Full-time employment
Work hours are 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday – Friday, with a 30-minute lunch.
This position will be home headquartered if applicant lives in Adams, York County. If applicant does not live in Adams, York County, the assigned state vehicle must be parked in Adams, York County at location TBD.
This position is home headquartered. In order to be home headquartered, you must have a securely configured high-speed internet connection and work from an approved location inside Pennsylvania.
Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE, TRAINING & ELIGIBILITY
QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:
A bachelor’s degree in food science, food technology, chemistry, microbiology, or a closely related field; or
An equivalent combination of experience and training.
Applicants will be considered to have met the educational requirements once they are within 3 months of graduating with a qualifying degree.
Special Requirement:
This position requires possession of an active motor vehicle license.
Other Requirements:
You must meet the PA residency requirement. For more information on ways to meet PA residency requirements, follow the link and click on Residency.
You must be able to perform essential job functions.
About Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania employs thousands of people across the state to deliver programs and services to the citizens of Pennsylvania. Employees work in a wide variety of professions in full-time, part-time, temporary, or seasonal capacities in civil service and non-civil service positions. On an employee basis per citizen basis, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is among the most efficient state governments in the county.
For more information on Pennsylvania government agencies and services visit www.pa.gov.
For more information on employment opportunities visit www.employment.pa.gov.
