Veterinarian - Animal Health & Welfare - Northern Illinois

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Date:
Feb 10, 2026

Location:

Springfield, IL, 62702
Job

Requisition
Closing Date: 02/26/2026
Agency:
Department of Agriculture
Class

Title:

VETERINARIAN I - 47901
Salary: $5928 - $8493 monthly
Job Type: Salaried
Category:
Full Time
County:
Ogle;
Boone;
Bureau;
Carroll;
Cook;
DeKalb;
DuPage;
Grundy;
Henry;
Jo Daviess;
Kane;
Kankakee;
Kendall;
LaSalle;
Lake;
Lee;
McHenry;
Mercer;
Rock Island;
Stephenson;
Whiteside;
Winnebago
Number of Vacancies: 1

The Bureau of Animal Health and Welfare plays a vital role in protecting Illinois’ livestock industry and supporting pet owners statewide. We enforce more than 23 statutes with regulations related to animal health, care, welfare, movement, and emergency preparedness—including foreign animal disease response and disaster planning. As a Field Veterinarian, you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on animal health across Illinois.

This role offers specialized training as a Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostician and positions you as a key defender of the state’s livestock industry.

• Travels within an assigned territory to conduct disease investigations and performs sample collection for foreign animal, emerging, and program diseases.
• Assists in the maintenance of disease program and identification databases to advance animal disease traceability throughout Illinois.
• Travels within an assigned territory to perform inspections on auction markets, rendering plants and trucks, livestock dealers, and other animal health licensees.
• Travels within an assigned territory to conduct initial pullorum typhoid testing on flocks enrolling in the National Poultry Improvement Plan.
• Travels within an assigned territory to conduct limited livestock humane care investigations.
• Travels within an assigned territory to assist animal and animal product investigators on inspections or investigations when further veterinary evaluation is necessary.
• Contacts owners and veterinarians regarding reportable diseases as assigned.
• Works with…