Supervisory Insect Production Worker

This Supervisory Insect Production Worker position is with Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (Department of Agriculture) in Phoenix, AZ. A Supervisory Insect Production Worker provides first level supervisory guidance and oversight responsible for ensuring the optimum utilization of personnel on a day-to-day or project-by-project basis over Insect Production Workers at the assigned insect rearing facility. Key duties: • The duties may include, but are not limited to: • Supervise and assist in operations connected with the maintenance of colonies and operations connected with expansion into mass production. • Train and schedule the work of USDA and/or cooperator employed workers. • Identify existing and potential problems, access, space and labor requirements; monitor condition of the equipment; and assists in cleaning, maintaining, repairing, and upgrading equipment. • Adhere to work priorities, project schedules, resources, and detailed work plans. • Inspects completed work for quality and work order requirements, and reports possible or actual work delays to supervisor. • Participates in staff meetings to receive new policies and guidelines, personnel programs, production schedules, and new rearing strategies. Qualifications: To qualify, you must show you have had training and experience of sufficient scope and quality to provide you with the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position. Your answers to the vacancy specific questions must be supported by the work experience in your resume. For example, if you respond in the affirmative when questioned whether you have experience rearing insects, your resume must include this experience, mindful that experience may not be inferred by job title. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. View the full announcement and apply on USAJOBS.gov.