Agricultural Inspectors

Inspect agricultural commodities, processing equipment, and facilities, and fish and logging operations, to ensure compliance with regulations and laws governing health, quality, and safety.

On the job, you would:

• Inspect food products and processing procedures to determine whether products are safe to eat.
• Interpret and enforce government acts and regulations and explain required standards to agricultural workers.
• Set standards for the production of meat or poultry products or for food ingredients, additives, or compounds used to prepare or package products.

Education

• high school diploma/GED
• some college

Business

• customer service
• management

Safety and Government

• law and government
• public safety and security

Math and Science

• arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Arts and Humanities

• English language

Basic Skills

• keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
• listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

People and Technology Systems

• thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
• figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it

Problem Solving

• noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Realistic

People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.

• Dependability
• Integrity
• Attention to Detail
• Cooperation
• Self Control
• Concern for Others

Verbal

• listen and understand what people say
• communicate by speaking

Ideas and Logic

• notice when problems happen
• make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information

Visual Understanding

• see hidden patterns
• quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things