AGRICULTURE/FORESTRY ENFORCEMENT OFFICER (1-3)
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AGRICULTURE/FORESTRY ENFORCEMENT OFFICER (1-3)
Salary
$3,122.00 - $6,316.00 Monthly
Location
Baton Rouge, LA
Job Type
Classified
Job Number
AHFS-50684731-08-12-25-BC
Department
DAF-Agriculture and Forestry
Opening Date
08/12/2025
Closing Date
8/17/2025 11:59 PM Central
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About this Job
Job # AHFS-50684731-08-12-25-BC
This position is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
Join our dedicated team as an Agriculture/Forestry Enforcement Officer in the Office of Animal Health and Food Safety, where you will be key in safeguarding LDAF assets, ensuring building security, and enhancing public safety. In this dynamic position, you will not only serve as a lead worker overseeing lower-level police officers but also provide essential functional supervision that fosters teamwork. Your career in ensuring public safety and safeguarding our agricultural and forestry resources starts here!
The ideal candidate should posses the following competencies:
Selected Core Competencies:
Demonstrating Accountability: The ability to accept ownership for your actions, behaviors, performance, and decisions.
Learning Actively: The ability to acquire necessary knowledge and skills to improve performance and achieve organizational goals.
Using Data: The ability to use relevant and valid data to inform a recommendation for action.
Selected Preferred Competencies:
-Acting Decisively: The ability to make decisions quickly and effectively.
-Acting with Ethics and Integrity: The ability to be consistent, honest, and a trustworthy steward of State resources.
-Adapting to Change: The ability to adjust plans, expectations, and behaviors in response to change.
-Demonstrating Initiative: The ability to assess information and take action independently to help the organization achieve its goals.
-Demonstrating Persistence: The ability to achieve goals by overcoming adversity.
-Displaying Professionalism: The ability to recognize how your actions impact the perceptions of both you and your organization.
-Focusing on Customers: The ability to serve the needs of those who support and/or rely on the services provided.
Minimum Qualifications
Three years of law enforcement experience as a POST certified peace officer commissioned with the power of arrest; OR
A bachelor's degree in agricultural sciences, veterinary science, forestry, or in a biological science or a criminal justice field.
NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
An applicant who has been convicted of a felony or who is under indictment on a felony charge will be disqualified until relief from the disabilities imposed by state and federal laws is granted.
Applicants must be at least 18 years of age.
Possession of a current Louisiana driver's license.
A drug screen and background check will be administered prior to employment.
Successful completion of a Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) certification within 6 months of employment.
Job Specification
The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be foundhere (https://apps01.civilservice.louisiana.gov/onestopjobinfo/DisplayJobSpec.aspx?JobCode=131650) .
Job Duties and Other Information
The incumbent in this position serves as the lead worker over lower-level Police Officers. They act as the point of contact for the assigned shift and may provide functional supervision during that shift. This position reports to an Agriculture/Forestry Enforcement Supervisor.
Conduct vehicle and foot patrols, Control access of persons and vehicles, and monitor CCTV surveillance;
Respond to emergencies and intervene in crises involving the public or state employees;
Prepare investigative reports, security logs, access logs, accident reports, desk logs, and daily activity reports;
Receive emergency calls through LDAF's 24-hour hotline;
Handle calls related to forest fires and agricultural crimes;
Monitors safety-related building issues, including, but not limited to, lighting, emergency response equipment, temperature of refrigerated warehouse, and emergency generator power availability.
Functional Requirements:
-Moderate light lifting, 30 pounds with occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds
-Reaching above shoulders
-Walking and standing (8 hours)
-Climbing stairs and occasionally ladders
-Occasional bending or kneeling
-Prolonged sitting at workstation
-Drive a vehicle to perform Security Checks
-Assigned Shift Work Consisting of Nights and Weekends
Environmental Factors:
-Working indoors and occasionally outdoors
-Occasional excessive heat and humidity
Position-Specific Details:
Appointment Type: This position may be filled by a Job Appointment (up to four years).
Career Progression: This position may be filled as an Agriculture/Forestry Enforcement Officer 1, 2, or 3, depending onthe level of experience of the selected applicant(s).
Compensation: The salary offered will be determined based on qualifications and experience.
Louisiana is a State As a Model Employer (SAME) that supports the recruitment, hiring, and retention of individuals with disabilities.
How To Apply:
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
To apply for this vacancy, click on the "Apply" link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.
*Information to support your eligibility for the position must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education).
Resumes will notbe accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections.
Applications may be rejected if incomplete.
For further information about this vacancy, contact:
Brandi Collins
HR Specialist
Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry
5825 Florida Blvd., Suite 1001
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
bcollins@ldaf.state.la.us
The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry strictly prohibits workplace harassment and discrimination on the on the basis of race, color, gender, sex, pregnancy, age, disability, religion, national origin, military service, sickle cell trait, protected genetic information or other non-merit factor. LDAF also strictly prohibits employment decisions based upon or influenced by such factors.
All candidates for hire must undergo drug screening.
LDAF provides a fully employer-funded Employee Assistance Program (EAP) as a valuable employee benefit.
This agency participates in the E-Verify system for verification of citizenship and employment authorization.
Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.
As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:
Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/
Parental Leave- Up to six weeks paid parental leave
More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx
Holidays and Leave - State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:
New Year's Day
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,
Mardi Gras,
Good Friday,
Memorial Day,
Independence Day,
Labor Day,
Veteran's Day,
Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
*** Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor
State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.
Retirement - State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the @type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):
Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your\Retirement\System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system
Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),
Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others
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To ensure compliance with the LDAF Nepotism Policy, do you have any immediate family members or relatives who are currently employed with the LDAF? Immediate family member is defined as children (blood, step, adopted), spouse, brother, sister, father, mother, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, mother-in-law and father-in-law. Relative includes immediate family members previously defined and also includes grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, uncle, aunt, niece and nephew.
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If you answered "yes" to the above question, please list the name of your immediate family member and/or relatives currently employed by the LDAF. If you answered "no" to the above question, enter N/A.
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Are you currently a classified employee of Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry serving with permanent status?
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Do you have a valid Louisiana driver's license?
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The incumbent of this position may drive a state-owned vehicle during working hours. Office of Risk Management prohibits drivers with three or more moving violations in a one year period from operating a state-owned vehicle. Based on this information, will you be able to operate a state-owned vehicle?
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Phone
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