Supervisory Investigator (Non-LEO)

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Plans, directs, coordinates and supervises the work of assigned Investigators and Senior Investigators in implementing OLMS program activity under the LMRDA and related statutes within an assigned geographical jurisdiction.

Assigns, coordinates and supervises work performed by Investigators and support staff within an assigned geographic jurisdiction. Monitors staff work to ensure timely completion of assignments, technical sufficiency of work, and conformance with agency policies and procedures. Provides individual direction and guidance to staff. Evaluates individual staff performance and performs all other customary supervisory functions.

Serves as project leaders on large or complex investigations and investigative audits.

Recommends revisions and refinements to OLMS policies, programs, goals and objectives to the District Director and other key agency officials at the Regional and National Office level.

Serves as the OLMS spokesperson in dealings with Federal and state or local agencies, union officials, interest groups, press and medical representatives, and others.

Physical requirements include prolonged hours of interviews or record reviews in hazardous, hostile environments. Many records are obtained from reluctant sources via administrative or grand jury subpoena. The work may involve considerable exertion to obtain, transport, and ultimately review records. The work requires interviews of witnesses or targets in remote work sites at irregular, unpredictable or unscheduled hours. Complex investigations are multi-tiered, requiring concentration and endurance. Documents are often difficult to obtain, and financial records may have to be completely reconstructed to assess both the subject's guilt and the union's loss. The work may involve interviewing contacts or developing leads in uncomfortable, often hostile environments oftentimes outside normal working hours. The position may also require working for prolonged periods of time without adequate rest. Conducting investigations requires frequent travel to various geographic sites with or without other investigators. Investigations may require locating witnesses and records, and then conducting extensive, prolonged interviews at irregular hours to satisfy stress-provoking time constraints. Travel is sometimes necessary in severe weather on remote roads, in hazardous areas or under hazardous conditions, for up to three weeks at a time. Some casework may have to be done over protracted shift periods and at irregular hours. Interviews may be conducted in arduous circumstances with reluctant witnesses, sometimes exposing the investigator to personal risk. Prosecution support work frequently requires unusually long workdays and long periods away from the assigned duty station. Considerable endurance is often required to review voluminous records, and physical strength is required for lifting and transporting them. Investigators must often lift heavy boxes or equipment, categorize, store, and secure evidence, all independent of outside help.

Assignments are typically performed in office settings, but usually require extensive additional on-site investigative work. This on-site work often occurs during evening or other irregular hours, in work environments of union officials or other persons, unsafe, crime-ridden areas, factories, on construction sites, or at depots. Investigative activities bring the investigator into direct contact with potential criminal charges, fearing a loss of their freedom and livelihood, known to commit, attempt, or threaten to commit violence against union members, who may own weapons, or who have alleged ties to organized crime. These contacts also expose the investigator to highly contested, hostile, internal union political and power struggles. These and other situations described above may place the investigator in physical jeopardy.