Employment

Food and Dairy Sanitarian

Thank you for exploring employment opportunities with the Wisconsin Department Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection. If you wish to be added to our mailing list for future Food Safety Inspector recruitments, please provide us with your: 1) name; 2) permanent mailing address; 3) preferred email address if available; and 4) daytime telephone number. Once we receive this information, your name will remain on our mailing list for a one-year period of time. During this one-year period, you will be sent a written notification via email (or postal mail if no email address is provided) if and when a new recruitment process is initiated. You are responsible for notifying our office of any changes to this personal information. You may provide your information in one of the following ways:

Email: kathryn.young@wisconsin.gov
Use the following subject: Food Safety Inspector Mailing List

By Telephone: Kathryn Young at 608-224-4708
By Mail: DATCP
Attn: Kathryn Young
P.O. Box 8911
Madison, WI 53708

Position Details:

To view a complete position description, click here.

Food Safety Inspectors, at the time of application, must be eligible to take; or currently possess one of the following certifications:

Certified Professional - Food Safety (CP-FS); the NEHA REHS/RS or the Registered Sanitarian (RS) Certificate.

To view criteria for a the above mentioned certifications, click here or for additional details on these certifications go to: http://www.neha.org/credential/#rehsrs_cred"

To review the applicable state statutes, go to http://www.legis.state.wi.us/rsb/stats.html and search for the following:

ATCP codes listed below, once you connect to the website indicated above, on the left side of the screen, click on Wisconsin Law, then administrative code and register, then in center of page, Wisconsin Administrative Code, then left side of page click on Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, then below ATCP 12, click on the + symbol by “more”, the other chapters will be loaded, then scroll down and select ATCP 60, etc.

“ATCP 60”
“ATCP 70”
“ATCP 71”
“ATCP 75”
“ATCP 80”
“ATCP 82”

HFS code listed below, follow the same process as the ATCP codes, but find Health and Family Services instead of the Department of Agriculture.

“HFS 196”

NR code listed below, follow the same process as the ATCP codes, but find Natural Resources instead of the Department of Agriculture.

“NR 811”

Statutes (Once you connect to the website indicated above, in the top search box on the left side of the screen, type in ch. 93 and click on search. You will do the same for the other chapters.)

“Chapter 93"
“Chapter 97”
“Chapter 98”

The Food Safety Inspector is a represented position covered by a collective bargaining agreement.

A 6 month probationary period is required upon appointment.