Description
Salary: $40,950 - $61,438
Position Grade: 205G
Department: Health
Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)
Examination Number: EX1560
Location: St. Louis, MO
The primary responsibilities of this position are enforcing the food control ordinances for establishments operating in the City of St. Louis. Inspectors work under general supervision and in most cases, they are free to develop their own work sequences within established procedures.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Scheduling and conducting inspections for food establishments.
- Verifying food, refrigerator, and freezer temperatures.
- Conducting inspections for USDA summer feeding programs.
- Investigating citizen complaints submitted to the Citizens Service Bureau.
- Educating proprietors and citizens on food borne illness and hazards.
- Attending in-service training and workshops.
- Interacting with other Jurisdictions and Regulatory agencies as needed.
- Inspecting vendor booths at temporary events and mobile food trucks.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform basic level of data analysis including the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize and/or reference data, statutes and/or guidelines and/or group, rank, investigate and diagnose. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established standards to recognize interactive effects and relationships.
- Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance and/or interpretation to others, such as coworkers, day care providers, food service proprietors, other agencies, and the public, on how to apply policies, procedures and standards to specific situations.
- Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as a vehicle, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
- Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as policies, ordinances, blueprints, permits, certifications statutes, procedures, guidelines and non-routine correspondence.
- Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; calculate decimals and percentages.
- Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.
- Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.
- Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, toxic/poisonous agents, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.
- Physical Requirements: Tasks involve the ability to regularly exert light physical effort in light to moderate work. Tasks involve the ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, bend, and climb in order to perform inspection duties.
- Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes, odors and textures associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks.
Qualifications
A Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Environmental Sciences or related field, OR an Associate’s Degree with at least 2 years of experience in food protection, OR Four years of progressive experience in food-related work AND one of the following (or to be completed by the end of the working test period): a valid Certified Professional Food Manager (CPFM) certificate, or a Food Safety Managers Certification Examination (FSMCE) certificate, or a SuperSafe Mark certificate, or a ServSafe Food Protection Manager certificate.
Preferences: Serve-Safe Sanitation Certification. Previous experience enforcing environmental sanitation laws, ordinances, and regulations. Experience in the food industry.
Certification: Must be able to obtain Certified Professional- Food Safety (CP-FS) from the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) within 11 months of hire as a condition of successfully completing a working test period.
License: Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license while employed by the City of St. Louis. Must possess a valid driver's license at the time of filing application. Must present RN and driver's licenses upon request. Please note licenses on the Employment Application. Only qualified applicants who provide proof of a valid driver’s license will be considered for this position.
Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail
Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request
When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Veterans Preference Points
To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.
City Residence Preference Points
City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.
Accommodations
If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.
