Correctional Officer

Correctional Officer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervises inmates in living areas and recreational activities.
• Supervises inmates and visitors in visitation areas.
• Serves as control center officer, coordinates and monitors inmate movements, conducts counts, and provides emergency response.
• Serves as mailroom, field tower, medical security, perimeter security, and/or gate officer as required.
• Provides security in treatment activities and supervises labor crews in the kitchen and other specialized areas.
• Ensures prompt and appropriate assistance to inmates in the event of injury, illness, and emotional trauma.
• Prepares reports and maintains daily logs as required. Initiates disciplinary reports.
• Conduct shakedown for contraband materials, either individually or as part of a specialized team.
• Promotes facility cleanliness and reports need for maintenance and/or repairs.
• Serves as a member of special teams to respond.
• Performs a variety of marginal duties not listed, to be determined and assigned as needed.

Required Knowledge Skills/Abilities:

• Must be representative of worthwhile qualities to which an inmate can identify.
• Must be emotionally stable, understanding, and philosophically attuned to the objective of the facility.
• Language skills and reasoning ability are crucial to success in this position.
• Interacts daily with offenders and staff members while providing security for the facility.

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Successful completion of training courses and on-the-job training as required by facility training standards.
• Experience in correctional setting is highly desirable.

Physical Requirements:

• Long periods of continuous standing and walking per shift.
• Frequent periods of sitting per shift.
• Repetitive climbing of stairs to reach the assigned areas and working at heights.
• Occasional kneeling, squatting, and bending to perform "pat" or "strip" searches.
• Frequent grasping, reaching, pushing, pulling, bending, twisting.
• Occasionally responding to altercations and occasional restraining and securing assaultive offenders.
• Ability to respond rapidly to potential security and/or medical codes/issues.
• Frequent transferrers and transporting offenders by walking or riding in various vehicles such as vans, buses, and other forms of transportation.
• Continuous periods of operating/driving company vehicles to pick up and transport offenders per shift.
• Remaining awake and alert while on duty per shift.
• Occasional lifting and carrying up to 50-100 lbs.
• Ability to occasionally withstand direct or indirect exposure to OC spray.
• Ability to hear and understand verbal communication.

Pay: $18.50 - $20.00 per hour.

Equal Opportunity Employer.