Corrections Officer
Closing Date: 12/1/2024
Position Summary:
Under supervision, oversee inmates to ensure they’re safe, secure, and supervised.
Essential Functions:
- Inspect assigned posts to ensure conformance to security standards and procedure
- Ensure that all security standards are followed
- Feed inmates at prescribed times
- Supervise housing unit cleanings
- Move inmates throughout the facility as required
- General supervision of inmates and trustees
- Complete concise reports of all irregularities, violations of the law or rules and regulations
- Conduct security checks, headcounts, wellness checks, emergency counts and searches of housing and common areas
- Distribute personal hygiene supplies
- Maintain all required documentation and logbooks
- Monitor movement of all persons within the facility
- Maintain, update and store custody and other jail records
- Process prisoners into and out of custody according to policy
- Fingerprint, photograph, and search inmates according to policy
- Provide clean clothing and linens to inmates as prescribed by policy
- Perform other related duties as required or requested by supervision
Requirements:
- Must be 18 years of age at minimum at time of application
- Must have a valid driver’s license
- Completion of Corrections Officer basic training course within the first year of employment
- Ability to supervise others at under stressful conditions
- Possess good communications skills, both written and oral
- Maintain complete and concise records
- Ability to enforce rules
- Deal professionally with other officers, inmates and the public
- Ability to protect self and others against physical assault
- Possess excellent visual and audio activity
- Ability to stand for long periods of time, walk/run and use stairways
- Ability to use online computer system
- High school diploma or GED equivalent