CORRECTIONAL OFFICER
Company: Dodge's Agway
Location: Juneau
Posted on: September 28, 2024
Job Description:
Status: Full Time, Non-Exempt
Starting Wage Range: $26.49/hr. - $29.18/hr. Position Open Until
Filled
Please submit Cover Letter & Resume with application
Dodge County offers a generous benefits package including:
- Paid Time Off (PTO) - available for use after 30 days of
employment
- 10 observed paid holidays
- Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA) - with employer contributions -
HRA
- Life insurance, Long-term disability and Flex spending
- Participation in the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) - an
exceptional pension plan with employer match (upon vesting) and
lifetime retirement payment. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Receives, books, and releases inmates which includes:
fingerprints, photographs, searches, and inventories and secures
personal belongings; records data and runs checks, completes
required screens, assigns and escorts inmates to cells or similar
area; issues uniforms, bedding, personal products, and other
supplies; ensures proper housing placement of inmates for safety
and security within the facility; and releases inmates upon posting
of bail, signing of signature bond, direction of an appropriate
authority, or for work release purposes.
- Maintains jail safety and security. Makes periodic rounds,
conducts inmate counts, and conducts security inspections and
searches of inmates and inmate's quarters for contraband and any
unauthorized materials. Enforces regulations and discipline
policies related to the security and operation of the
facility.
- Responds to emergency situations and takes decisive action
according to office policies and procedures.
- Maintains surveillance of all inmates and jail activities
through visual and audible devices to ensure inmate's personal
welfare is appropriately monitored. This includes watching for
illegal activities or violations of jail regulations, unusual or
suspicious behaviors, and signs of mental and physical
illness.
- Monitors and operates all equipment and alarms located in the
jail control center.
Controls all access to the jail and maintains jail keys. Prevents
unauthorized persons from entering or leaving the facilities.
- Interprets and complies with all bond conditions and commitment
orders and Judgments of Convictions. Receives and records fines and
bail/bond transactions.
- Maintains communication within and between shifts and keeps
jailers, sergeants, and management informed of any problems,
complaints, or infractions.
- Complete and maintains all paperwork, documentation, and
records, including jail logs and activities and incidents,
according to applicable jail policies and procedures and State
regulations.
- Provides for medical, mental or other attention necessary for
the inmates' welfare, according to established policies and
procedures.
- Complies with all procedures and schedules for serving meals,
linen exchange, inmate personal hygiene, cleaning and maintenance,
incoming and outgoing mail, jail inspections, and prisoner
requests.
- Positively identifies and directs all visitors. Provides and
supervises prisoner access to family, friends, clergy and other
religious service providers, educational service providers,
recreational service providers, attorneys, and probation and parole
personnel.
- Maintains Huber inmate compliance with Huber laws, rules and
policies by performing the following duties: checks in and checks
out Huber inmates, verifies employment, conducts job site and home
visits, conducts random drug and alcohol testing, and deposits
Huber funds.
- Coordinates, transports, or escort inmates to and from
facilities, courts and medical/mental treatment facilities.
- Answers or properly refers all inquiries concerning prisoner
and jail matters.
- Appears in court and testifies as a witness as required.
- Performs intoximeter and preliminary breath tests (PBT), takes
DNA mouth swabs, and collects urinalysis samples when
necessary.
- Collects and issues receipts for bail bonds, fine payments, and
canteen accounts.
- Other duties as assigned.
REQUIRED JOB COMPETENCIES
- Knowledge of legal compliance regarding inmate's rights.
- Knowledge of the criminal justice system operations.
- Knowledge of individual and group behavior in an institutional
setting.
- Knowledge of the laws applicable to detention facility
operations.
- Ability to ensure inmate discipline and to deal effectively
with non-compliance.
- Ability to develop contingency plans to deal with emergency
situations and to act decisively in the event of the same.
- Ability and skill to manage, direct, and command people in such
a manner as to obtain maximum cooperation with minimum use of
coercion and minimum creations of hostility and rebellion.
- Knowledge of the County and Office's operating requirements,
policies, procedures, and practices; and local, State, and Federal
regulations related to office programs and operations.
- Knowledge of administrative policies and procedures of the
County.
- Ability to establish and maintain accurate records of assigned
activities and operations.
- Ability to interpret and implement local policies and
procedures; written instructions, general correspondence; Federal,
State, and local regulations.
- Skill in organizational and time management to prioritize
duties to accomplish a high volume of work product while adapting
to constant changes in priority.
- Ability to perform detailed work accurately and independently
in compliance with stringent time limits requiring minimal
direction and supervision.
- Ability to think quickly, maintain self-control, and adapt to
stressful situations.
- Knowledge of computer software including word processing,
spreadsheet and database applications consistent for this
position.
- Ability to perform mathematical calculations required of this
position.
- Ability to communicate clearly, concisely and effectively in
English in both written and verbal form.
- Skill in researching and understanding complex written
materials.
- Ability to prepare and maintain accurate and concise records
and reports.
- Ability to apply sound judgment and discretion in performing
duties, resolving problems, and interpreting policies and
regulations.
- Ability to handle sensitive interpersonal situations calmly and
tactfully.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and professionalism at all
times.
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with
individuals within and outside the organization.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and discretion regarding
business-related files, reports, and conversations, within the
provision of Open Records laws and other applicable state and
federal statutes and regulations.
- Ability to work the allocated hours of the position and respond
after hours as needed.
- The employee must have the ability to testify in court as a
credible and trustworthy witness. PHYSICAL AND WORK ENVIRONMENT
- This work requires the occasional exertion of up to 50 pounds
of force; work regularly requires sitting, frequently requires
standing, speaking or hearing, using hands to finger, handle or
feel and repetitive motions and occasionally requires walking,
stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling and reaching with hands
and arms.
- Work requires close vision, distance vision, ability to adjust
focus, depth perception, color perception, night vision and
peripheral vision.
- Vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging
ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or
important instructions to others accurately, loudly or
quickly.
- Hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken
word levels and to receive detailed information through oral
communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound.
- Work requires wearing specialized personal protective
equipment.
- May be subject to exposure to blood/body fluids and infectious
and communicable diseases.
- Work is primarily in a secured detention facility.
- May require dealing with persons who are hostile, aggressive,
abusive or violent, posing threatening conditions.
Keywords: Dodge's Agway, Fond du Lac , CORRECTIONAL OFFICER, Other , Juneau, Wisconsin
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