Captain

Richwood Correctional Center•Monroe, LA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves organizing and conducting inspections, preparing records, maintaining logs, and fostering team effort among correctional officers. The Captain will report and investigate unusual occurrences, direct employee work, supervise daily routines, enforce post orders, and manage disciplinary reports. The position also functions as a shift supervisor, overseeing employees, detainees, and offenders, scheduling work and off-duty time, and assisting in formulating security procedures. Responsibilities include supervising and providing custody and security of detainees and offenders, observing actions, performing searches, restraining individuals, and transferring/transporting them. The role also involves supervising security for detainees and offenders performing technical skills in various operations, which may include climbing, working outdoors/indoors without air conditioning, and operating equipment. The Captain must respond to emergencies, including climbing, searching, calling for help, administering first aid, carrying individuals, and using force, including chemical agents and firearms. Additionally, the role requires reading and applying detainee/offender records, providing information to personnel, complying with policies, enforcing rules, and supervising record maintenance. Marginal duties may also be assigned.

Requirements

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment.
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
Mid-management level in a security department
At least three years of experience in a correctional institution is required.

Nice To Haves

5 years of experience in a correctional setting
1-year experience in a supervisory position preferred.

Responsibilities

Organize and conduct inspections and searches of 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.
Manage 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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.