Park Ranger Supervisor (Promotional Only)

Salary: $35,724 - $53,820

Position Grade: 11G

Department: Police Department

Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number: EX1375

Location: Downtown - St. Louis, MO

Promotional - Open to Permanent City Employees Only.

Incumbents in this position supervise Park Rangers while working to enforce City ordinances, maintain order and protect life and property within City parks, recreation centers, and forest facilities. Work involves shift, weekend, holiday and mandatory overtime assignments. A shift differential is paid for evening and night work.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Plans, organizes, assigns and directs the work activities of subordinate staff to realize the unit’s work goals and to ensure the consistent application of unit and/or technical policies, procedures and guidelines.

• Confers with and counsels subordinate staff to exchange information and/or explain work policies, procedures and guidelines; and identify work-related problems, problem characteristics, impacts and formulates possible solutions.

• Reviews and compares work performance and/or products of subordinate staff with established standards to determine employee production levels, training needs and to determine for recommendation to agency management appropriate personnel actions such as promotions, disciplinary actions, status changes, separations and grievance dispositions.

• Trains subordinate staff in the work principles, policies and or procedures to maintain and/or improve the production levels of employees in accordance with established work performance standards.

• Assigns tasks and reviews work of Park Rangers.

• Enforces department policies and procedures.

• Regulates criminal and non-criminal behavior by enforcing ordinances, investigating suspected perpetrators and apprehending criminals

• Resolves conflict, maintains order by assisting police, fire and EMS departments, as needed.

• Issues citations to violators.

• Controls traffic and crowds as needed.

• Responds to inquiries from travelers and the general public.

• Responds to alarm calls coming from city facilities.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform basic level of data analysis including the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize and/or reference data, statutes and/or guidelines and/or group, rank, investigate and diagnose. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established standards to recognize interactive effects and relationships.

• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide first line supervision. Ability to persuade, convince, and train others. Ability to advise and provide interpretation regarding the application of policies, procedures and standards to specific situations.

• Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, calibrate, tune and synchronize, and perform complex rapid adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as motor vehicle, weapon, pepper spray, and/or related materials used in performing essential functions.

• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as incident and accident reports, equipment logs, employee schedules, citations and non-routine correspondence.

• Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to count, add, subtract and measure.

• Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objective.

• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.

• Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature extremes, traffic hazards, animals/wildlife, violence or disease.

• Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to lift, carry, push, and pull moderately heavy objects and materials, fifty (50) to one hundred (100) pounds; and may occasionally involve objects and materials over one hundred (100) pounds, such as assisting with injured people. Tasks involve the ability to exert regular and sustained heavy physical effort with an emphasis on climbing and balancing which also involves stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling such as performing security patrol.

• Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes and sounds associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks, such as accurately remembering an incident.
  

A high school diploma or General Educational Development (G.E.D.) certificate; plus three years of experience working in law enforcement or a closely related field. Graduation from a recognized law enforcement training program may substitute for six months of the required experience. OR an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Must have a registered legal weapon in your own name.

Licenses: Applicants must possess and maintain all of the following while employed by the City of St. Louis: a current City of St. Louis Armed Private Security Officer License or Armed Metropolitan License and a valid driver's license. Please note the type of licenses, numbers and expiration dates on the Employment Application.

Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail

Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request

When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Veterans Preference Points

To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.

City Residence Preference Points

City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.

Accommodations

If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.