Agricultural Regulatory Investigator
- The duties described are for the full-performance level. At developmental grade levels, assignments will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity.
- The duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Performs on-site trade practice, payment and custodial account investigations of registrants, packers and live poultry dealers that are subject to the Act.
- Conducts and/or directs investigations and related activities pertaining to large and complex firms operating subject to the Act.
- Observes, interviews, and questions the parties involved and, if necessary, takes sworn statements and prepares investigative reports, analysis, and recommendations.
- Initiates investigations of new and expanding registrants, packers and live poultry dealers to ascertain whether they meet the jurisdictional requirements of the Act.
- Advises registrants, live poultry dealers and packers of the records they must maintain and when inadequacies are found, specifies the necessary adjustments to affect compliance.
- Develops annual and quarterly work plans to investigate unfair, unjustly discriminatory or deceptive practices.