CANNABIS REGULATOR - REGION 1 - COOK CO. NORTH (Target title for 49392)

Job Requisition ID: 49393 
Closing Date: 09/15/2025
​Agency: Department of Agriculture
Class Title: CANNABIS REGULATOR - 06000 
Skill Option: None 
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: $5385-$7515 monthly salary range
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time 
County: Cook
Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code: RC029 Paraprofessional Investigatory & Law Enforcement Employees, Meat and Poultry Inspectors, and Meat and Poultry Inspector Trainees, IFPE. The RC-033 bargaining unit merged into RC-029 bargaining unit effective May 15, 2014.
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This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.

 

All applicants who want to be considered for this position MUST apply electronically through the illinois.jobs2web.com website. State of Illinois employees should click the link near the top left to apply through the SuccessFactors employee career portal.

Applications submitted via email or any paper manner (mail, fax, hand delivery) will not be considered.

 

 

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Essential Functions

• Performs field inspections of cannabis business establishments including but not limited to, cultivation centers, infusers, transporters, craft growers, and hemp producers and processors.
• As part of the inspection process gathers data from the states traceability system to be used during inspection of business.
• Completes inspection process.
• Advises cultivation centers, infusers, transporters, craft growers, and hemp producers and processors - of state regulations and when applicable federal regulations.
• Regularly interacts and corresponds by telephone, or in person to obtain facts, answer questions, explain processes and compliance requirements, and verifies information.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to the completion of four years of college.
• Requires satisfactory completion of 30 total semester hours of undergraduate and/or graduate coursework in agricultural science, biological science, chemistry, criminal justice, accounting, business, or a closely related field.
• Requires completion of the cannabis regulator training program.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prefers extensive knowledge of - state laws and regulations concerning the agricultural production, processing and transportation of cannabis, hemp and related derivatives and federal regulations when applicable.
• Prefers working knowledge of industry practices and methods related to the production and processing of cannabis and hemp.
• Prefers working knowledge of the procedures for inspections and collecting and testing samples.
• Prefers working knowledge of effective methods of investigation and what constitutes legal evidence.

Employment Conditions

• Requires completion of a name-based background screening and self-disclosure of criminal history.
• Requires the ability to successfully pass a preemployment physical.
• Requires ability to travel in the performance of duties with overnight stays as appropriate. Requires appropriate, valid driver’s license.
• Certain provisions of the revolving door restrictions contained in 5 ILCS 430/5-45 apply to this position. As a result, the employee should be aware that if offered non-State employment during state employment or with