What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lieutenant position at Richwood Correctional Center LLC?
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Organize and conduct inspections and searches of inmates, detainees, and offenders and their living and work areas.
Prepare records and reports as assigned.
Maintain logs and verify inmate counts.
Foster a team effort among correctional officers providing support, motivation, training, and assistance to them as required.
Report and investigate all unusual occurrences.
Direct the work of employees to ensure effectiveness.
Supervise daily routine of the security section.
Enforce post orders and ensure that correctional officers are familiar with shift assignments.
Handle disciplinary reports and prepare reports of disturbances and shift activities.
Function as shift supervisor as needed: supervise, instruct, train, and ensure the safety of assigned employees, inmates, detainees, and offenders; schedule employees, inmates, detainees, and offenders work and off-duty time; and assist in formulating security and work procedures.
Supervise and provide custody and security of inmates, detainees, and offenders including observing actions of inmates, detainees, and offenders, squatting and bending to perform “pat” and “strip” searches of inmates, detainees, and offenders; restraining and securing sometimes assaultive inmates, detainees, and offenders; and transferring and transporting inmates, detainees, and offenders by walking or riding in various vehicles such as trailers, vans, buses, etc.
Supervise and provide security of inmates, detainees, and offenders performing technical skills such as construction, maintenance, laundry, food service, and in varied industrial and agricultural operations which involve climbing stairs, steps, and ladders, and climbing around the inside and outside of buildings; work outdoors and indoors without air conditioning; work around motorized or moving equipment and machinery; subject to all types of weather.
Respond to emergencies including climbing stairs, steps, and ladders while searching for escaped inmates, detainees, and offenders; hearing calls for and calling for help; giving first aid at the emergency site; carrying an injured or unconscious inmate, detainee, offender or employee various distances to safety up or down stairs, steps, and ladders; use force and deadly force to include the use of chemical agents and firearms to control inmates, detainees, and offenders.
Read, review, and properly apply information found in inmate, detainee, and offender records which is related to said individual’s health and safety and to the security of the facility; provide appropriate information to other personnel; comply with all policies, procedures, rules, and regulations; enforce inmate, detainee, and offender disciplinary rules; and supervise the preparation and maintenance of records, forms and reports.
Perform a variety of marginal duties not listed, to be determined and assigned as needed.
Experience
Required- 3 year(s): At least three years of experience in a correctional institution is required.
Behaviors
Preferred- Leader: Inspires teammates to follow them
- Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity
Motivations
Preferred- Flexibility: Inspired to perform well when granted the ability to set your own schedule and goals
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)