Job description
Agency : Department of Agriculture
Closing Date/Time: 01/31/2023
Salary: $4,514.00-$6,393.00/anticipated monthly starting salary
Job Type: Salaried Full Time
County: Grundy; Kendall; LaSalle; Livingston
Number of Vacancies: 1
Plan/BU: RC029
This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.
All applicants who want to be considered for this position MUST apply electronically through the illinois.jobs2web.com website. State of Illinois employees should click the link near the top left to apply through the SuccessFactors employee career portal.
Applications submitted via email or any paper manner (mail, fax, hand delivery) will not be considered.
This position serves in a regional capacity. Persons serving in this role are required to assume residency in Grundy, Kendall, LaSalle or Livingston County and will be required to work from their home location as a base of daily operational headquarters to service their designated worksites.
Posting Identification Number #14075
Position Overview
The Warehouse Examiner position serves as a frontline regulator in the Bureau of Warehouse and performs examinations of Illinois licensed Grain Companies to ensure compliance with the Illinois Grain Code and maintain financial solvency so Illinois farmers receive payment for grain sold or stored with Illinois licensed Grain Companies. The ideal candidate will have basic knowledge of grain warehouses, basic accounting principles, aptitude to use a laptop computer, and the ability to work with many different personalities within the Illinois Grain Industry. This position offers excellent beginning salary and benefits. We welcome interested applicants to assist us in providing effective regulation within the Illinois Grain Industry.
Minimum Qualifications
1. Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four years of college with coursework in fields related to accounting, auditing, business, and agriculture.
Job Responsibilities
- Conducts professional field examinations of grain warehouses and grain dealers.
- Prepares examinations reports and inspection sheets.
- Examines grain warehouses for storage capacity and condition of grain.
- Receives additional on-the-job training.
- Provides support as it relates to insolvent licensees.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prefers elementary knowledge of agricultural economics.
- Prefers elementary knowledge of grain warehouse financial records and reports.
- Prefers elementary knowledge of the methods and procedures used in the conduct of warehouse examinations.
- Prefers elementary knowledge of the rules, regulations, codes, and laws relative to warehouses.
- Prefers experience conducting warehouse examinations.
- Prefers experience communicating in oral and written form.
- Prefers experience testifying at administrative or judicial proceedings.
- Prefers experience gathering data and information to be utilized at administrative and judicial proceedings.
- Prefers experience using notebook computer and relevant software.
- Prefers experience safely operating electric, hydraulic and/or rope man lifts.
- Prefers experience properly utilizing required personal protective equipment and observing established safety standards.
Conditions of Employment
1. Requires a valid driver’s license and the ability to travel when required.
2. Requires ability to successfully pass a background check.
3. Requires successful completion of pre-employment physical, including drug and alcohol screening.
4. Requires ability and agility to safely climb a ladder to work at heights up to 120 feet.
5. Requires ability and physical agility to reach above shoulder level, bend, stoop and/or twist as it relates to the collecting, examining, and measuring of grain inventories.
6. Requires ability to lift and carry job related tools, equipment and materials weighing up to 100 pounds.
7. Requires ability to walk and/or crawl through stored grain.
8. Requires the ability to reside in Grundy, Kendall, LaSalle, or Livingston County.
Work Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m./M-F (work hours may vary)
Work Location: 801 E Sangamon Ave Springfield, IL 62702-1813
Agency Contact:
Bureau of Human Resources
Email: Agr.HumanResources@illinois.gov
Phone #:217-785-5099
Job Function: Legal and Compliance
Certain provisions of the revolving door restrictions contained in 5 ILCS 430/5-45 apply to this
position. As a result, the employee should be aware that if offered non-State employment during
State employment or within one year immediately after ending State employment, the employee shall,
prior to accepting any such non-State employment offer, notify the Office of the Executive
Inspector General for the Agencies of the Illinois Governor (“OEIG”) or may be subject to a fine.
The Illinois Department of Agriculture (AGR) administers an annual budget of more than $100 million and employs more than 300 people statewide, with several hundred more temporary employees hired during the Illinois State Fair and Du Quoin State Fair. Separate bureaus administer programs and services directed at conserving the state's land and water resources; protecting the health and welfare of livestock and companion animals; overseeing state and county fairs; regulating seed, feed and fertilizer products; ensuring the financial stability of grain dealers and warehouses; promoting Illinois food and agricultural products; and operating the state's horse racing program.
AGR values employees with different backgrounds, life experiences, and talents.
AGR offers a robust benefit package including;
- Monday-Friday work schedule
- Flexible work schedules in many program areas
- Health, life, vision, and dental insurance
- 10 Weeks paid maternity/paternity leave
- Pension Plan
- Deferred Compensation, and other pre-tax benefit programs
- Employees earn twelve (12) paid sick days annually
- Ten to twenty-five (10-25) paid vacation days based on years of service
- Employees earn three (3) paid personal days pro-rated based on start date
- Thirteen - Fourteen (13-14) paid state holidays annually
If this opportunity appeals to you, please apply today!
This position DOES NOT contain “Specialized Skills
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Use the “Apply” button at the top right or bottom right of this posting to begin the application process.
If you are not already signed in, you will be prompted to do so.
State employees should sign in to the career portal for State of Illinois employees – a link is available at the top left of the work.Illinois.gov homepage in the blue ribbon.
Non-State employees should log in on the using the “View Profile” link in the top right of the work.Illinois.gov homepage in the blue ribbon. If you have never before signed in, you will be prompted to create an account.
If you have questions about how to apply, please see the following resources:
State employees: Log in to the career portal for State employees [KS(1] and review the Internal Candidate Application Job Aid HERE [KS(2]
Non-State employees: on work.Illinois.gov – click “Application Procedures” in the footer of every page of the website.
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