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Join our team and help protect the health and value of America’s agricultural and natural resources.

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APHIS Career Fields: Plant Health

Plant safeguarding specialists at APHIS keep America’s plants and natural resources healthy. They prevent pests and diseases from entering the country, limit their spread when they do occur, and make sure plants and plant products can be traded safely.

We hire plant health experts and other specialists for a variety of positions.

Plant Health Job Titles

Agriculturist
Biological Science Technician
Botanist, Entomologist
Export Document Examiner
Geographer, Geneticist
Plant Health Officers and Technicians
Plant Pathologist
Safeguarding Specialist
Statistician

Common Majors

Agriculture
Agronomy
Botany
Biology
Biological Sciences
Entomology
Environmental Science
Horticulture