JobsWednesday, November 11
USDA is hiring 228 people for the screwworm fly facility at Edinburg's Moore Air Base
The Good Day Edinburg team
If you've been eyeing a federal job close to home, the USDA is hiring. It began taking applications Tuesday for 228 jobs at the New World Screwworm Sterile Fly Production Facility at Moore Air Base in Edinburg.
Most of the jobs are skilled trades, craft and laboring positions, plus biological sciences and lab support. You can also meet hiring managers at the Embassy Suites by Hilton McAllen Convention Center, 800 Convention Center Blvd., where they will be interviewing on site.
Hiring managers will interview in McAllen from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day
Embassy Suites by Hilton McAllen Convention Center, 800 Convention Center Blvd., McAllen
- 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.Hiring event with on-site interviews
- Dates
- Nov. 17 to Nov. 19
- Bring
- A resume
- Apply online: USAJobs.gov, open since Tuesday
- Bring a resume; you don't need to register
- Construction: expected to finish in April 2027
Once it's fully operational, the facility is expected to produce 300 million sterile male flies per week. They'll be released to mate with wild females, which mate only once, so no eggs hatch into flesh-eating larvae. USDA says the technique eradicated the pest from the country in 1966.
The Edinburg facility is expected to make 300 million sterile flies a week
Source: FOX 26 Houston
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Panama facility | 100 million |
| Edinburg facility (expected) | 300 million |
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Sources: FOX 26 Houston, KRGV, KCBD