Insect Production Worker - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

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. The duties may include, but are not limited to: Prepares and weighs out different rearing media and diet ingredients. Operates and/or synchronizes multiple pieces of equipment for preparation of insect diets. Assembles and disassembles production chambers. Cleans the chambers and the surrounding of the dispersal facility. Provides feed to insects, controls temperature and humidity, and harvests pupae or adults, records collection data, and verifies that the data is correct. Separates insects into categories such as sex and/or species and controls them to prevent escape or intermingling. Observes insect collections for obvious changes of life cycles, deaths, and general activity, and reports observations to the supervisor. Determines daily production of adults and pupae by determining the average weight and inputting that data into facility database. Prepares disinfectant, for cleaning and sanitation of equipment for rearing of various insect life stages and disinfects based on established protocols.