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Agricultural inspector

Latest available data: December 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Agricultural assessor Agricultural auditor Agricultural examiner Agricultural inspector Agricultural monitor Agricultural production inspector Agriculture assessor Agriculture auditor Agriculture inspector Agriculture monitor Farm assessor Farm auditor Farm inspector Farm monitor

Agricultural inspectors monitor agricultural operations in farms and other agricultural facilities. They inspect activities such as health and safety measures, costs and production processes to ensure that workers and their activities comply with proper legislation and standards. Agricultural inspectors also analyse and report on their findings.

Tasks

In such cases tasks would include -
(a) Examining places of business to ensure the use of correct weights and measures in trade;
(b) Monitoring price regulations to assess appropriateness of costs for goods and services to protect consumer interests;
(c) Monitoring wage regulations to ensure appropriate levels of pay for work performed and to assess compliance with employment standards legislation;
(d) Performing related investigative and administrative tasks to record findings, document compliance problems or inappropriate business practices and to prepare reports and correspondence.

Knowledge

  • Crop and livestock production
  • Occupational health and safety
  • Law
  • Finance, banking and insurance
  • Management and administration

Digital competencies

  • Monitoring safety or security
  • Conducting academic or market research
  • Advising on environmental issues
  • Maintaining operational records
  • Advising on workplace health and safety issues

Digital competencies

No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.

Personal competencies

  • Leading others
  • Processing information, ideas and concepts
  • Communicating
  • Supporting others

Professional groups of the occupation

Technicians and associate professionals

Business and administration associate professionals

Government regulatory associate professionals

Government regulatory associatepprofessionals not elsewhere classified

Other occupations of the professional group

Related training

Higher education
  • Veterinary Bachelor
  • Food Science and Technology Bachelor
  • Agri-environmental and landscape engineering Bachelor
  • Agricultural and Food Engineering Bachelor
  • Forestry Engineering Bachelor
Vocational training
  • Landscaping and rural environment, professional profile agricultural management HVET
  • Livestock and animal health assistance HVET
Certificates of professionalism
  • Livestock production management CP3
  • Agricultural production management CP3

Legend by training level:

Bachelor's degree and Master's degree
HVET: Higher Vocational Education and Training, IVET: Initial Vocational Education and Training, IQP: Initial Qualification Programme
Certificates of professionalism 1, 2, or 3

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Government regulatory associatepprofessionals not elsewhere classified

1.022

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

78,68%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

9,89% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

58,41%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

34,93%

Part-time contracts

1,17% Turnover index

34

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

17%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Business and administration associate professionals

61%

39%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Business and administration associate professionals

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Government regulatory associate professionals

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Government regulatory associatepprofessionals not elsewhere classified

No experience
14%
Less than 1 year
67%
Between 1 and 2 years
5%
Between 2 and 4 years
8%
Between 4 and 8 years
5%
More than 8 years
1%
Other service activities
35%
Education
12%
Administrative and support service activities
12%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
8%
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
6%
Others
27%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.