Status: Full-time position
Location: Sarasota, FL
Deadline Date: 5/6/13
Date Available:
Job Summary: Sterile Insect Production Workers perform assignments in sterile insect mass production, packaging, feeding, storing, knock down, and delivering of live insects. The incumbent is also involved in the cleaning and maintenance of the areas they work in and the equipment utilized.
You can make a difference! The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Marketing and Regulatory Programs (MRP) needs bright, energetic and committed professionals to facilitate the domestic and international marketing of U.S. agricultural products and to protect the health and care of animals and plants in the United States. MRP offers an array of occupations and is committed to diversity in the workplace. We operate in domestic and global markets. Be part of an organization that protects the health and agriculture of the American people. Join our team!
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 cleaning and disinfecting lab equipment, your resume must include this experience, mindful that experience may not be inferred by job title.
Duties: Performs steps in the preparation of the diet media for adult flies.
Prepares incubation trailers, readies containers by loading with flies, placing lids on boxes, feeding, stacking, and strapping stacks.
Prepares, cleans, and repairs containers used for rearing flies.
Processes pupae boxes and bags, distributes pupae within bags and boxes, verifies counts, stacks properly, etc.
Moves pupae from preparation to incubation trailers and adult flies from incubation to refrigerated trailers and performs all phases of the knock down process, getting the flies ready to be dropped from the aircraft.
Uses correct procedures for box and tray washing and maintenance of equipment.
Keeps all work areas and equipment clean, aids in setting up/preparing for next day’s work, and dispenses and dilutes bleach used in cleaning.
Follows all safety guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures.
To Apply:
A complete on-line application will require the submission of the following
Resume
Responses to the vacancy specific questions (you will be prompted to complete these questions during the online application process)
Supporting Documentation which may be required
For more information or to apply online, visit
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/342453500