Competition # : 36828
Department: Environment and Climate Change
Location: KENTVILLE
Type of Employment: Permanent
Union Status: NSGEU - NSPG
Closing Date: 10/24/2022 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)
About Us
Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change's role is to protect the environment, human health and farm animal welfare through regulatory excellence, conservation, partnership, and promotion. To achieve this, we strive to develop legislation, regulations and policies, process notifications, applications, and approvals for regulated activities based on sound scientific knowledge and expertise.
Our goal is to educate, inspect and enforce to ensure compliance with legislation and regulations. We proactively respond to environmental, conservation, farm animal welfare, and human health risks and work to develop programs and deliver services to enhance protection in these areas.
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About Our Opportunity
Working within a complex regulatory environment as an Inspector Specialist, you will ensure producers throughout Nova Scotia are operating in compliance with relevant legislation, regulations, policies, and guidelines. You will implement compliance-related activities to ensure the humane treatment of farm animals in private ownership or custody, on commercial farms and premises, including those intended for the food system, at the time of slaughter. This position also responds to and investigates farm animal welfare complaints from the public on private or commercial premises, collects evidence, issues orders, conducts follow-up inspections and/or implements any necessary enforcement actions. You also determine the need for technical assistance from veterinarians and, where necessary, act to relieve acute and serious animal suffering.
Primary Accountabilities
Primary Product Inspector
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