Correction Officer and Deputy Sheriff - Officer 60071640

County of Erie • Buffalo NY 14202, NY

11d • Onsite

About The Position

Erie County is an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to workplace diversity. All correspondence regarding online applications will be via email. Paper applications containing an email address will also receive email correspondence. If no email is provided, paper notification will arrive via USPS. CANDIDATES MUST HAVE BEEN LEGAL RESIDENTS OF ERIE COUNTY FOR AT LEAST ONE MONTH IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE OF THE WRITTEN TEST AND MUST BE LEGAL RESIDENTS OF ERIE COUNTY AT THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT. The eligible list resulting from this examination will be filled to fill future Deputy Sheriff – Officer and Correction Officer positions in Erie County Sheriff's Department. The starting salary for Correction Officer is $58,727 (CSEA Corrections Facility JG XI) and the starting annual salary for Deputy Sheriff – Officer is $64,944 (Teamster's JG VIII). Permanent appointment to either title will remove a candidate from this eligible list. The eligible list resulting from this examination will not supersede currently existing eligible lists for this title, if any. The duration of all eligible lists is a minimum of one year and maximum of four years from date of establishment, unless otherwise exhausted.

Requirements

• Graduation from high school or possession of a high school equivalency diploma.
• Candidates must have a high school diploma or possess a high school equivalency diploma issued by an education department of any State of the United States or hold a comparable diploma issued by any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States or by the Canal Zone or hold a report from the United States armed forces certifying successful completion of the tests of general education development, high school level.
• Uncorrected vision of no less than 20/40 binocular, with neither eye less than 20/70, and must be correctable to 20/20 binocular.
• Left and right lateral (horizontal) field of vision shall be no less than 85 degrees in each direction to produce a binocular horizontal field of vision of at least 170 degrees. Peripheral vision determination is to be made without correction.
• Must have attained their twenty first (21) birthday at the time of original appointment and must have satisfactory hearing.
• Conviction for a felony automatically bars appointment as a Correction Officer or Deputy Sheriff Officer; and that prior conviction of a misdemeanor may be disqualifying for these titles, after a review of the material facts of the individual case.
• Possession of a valid New York State motor vehicle operator's license at time of appointment and maintenance throughout duration of employment.
• Applicants will be required to successfully complete a Physical Fitness Test prior to appointment.
• Permanent appointment shall be contingent upon satisfactory completion of required training program.
• Applicants will be subject to an extensive pre-employment background investigation and psychological evaluation.
• Candidates must pass the psychological evaluation.
• Candidates must be a United States Citizen and an Erie County Resident.

Nice To Haves

• May assist the training instructor in training activities.

Responsibilities

• Guards incarcerated individuals confined to the County Correctional Facility, after sentencing by the courts for the lesser criminal violations.
• Supervises and guards incarcerated individuals sentenced by the courts to confinement in the County Correctional Facility for the lesser violations under Criminal Law.
• Guards and escorts incarcerated individuals to clinics, recreation activities, church services, barber shops, mess halls, etc., and to interviews with relatives and attorneys.
• Supervises and guards incarcerated individuals during work assignments outside the Correctional Facility proper, such as farm and general maintenance work; issues work equipment and supplies as necessary.
• Supervises and guards incarcerated individuals during assigned general laboring work inside the facility such as cleaning, kitchen work or during work assignments in the various shops.
• Guards incarcerated individuals during their transfer to the County Medical Center.
• Maintains discipline; enforces rules and regulations; maintains constant alert for attempts to escape, incarcerated individual disturbances or other unusual incidents.
• Reports any such incident to Sergeant or other officer immediately and initiates corrective action, as appropriate; prepares incident reports for higher authority.
• Performs duties related to receiving and discharge of incarcerated individuals, such as searching incarcerated individuals upon admittance and collecting information for the preparation of incarcerated individuals records.
• Delivers incarcerated individuals’ mail; answers phone inquiries.
• Prepares and maintains records and files.
• Performs routine security and guard work which involves responsibility for providing for the custody and well-being of incarcerated individuals while under detention in the County Holding Center, while in State and County courts for trial or hearing.
• Performs guard duties at various locations in the Holding Center, ECMC Lockup, County courts, State courts and Family courts, such as entrance and exits, receiving and detention rooms, court rooms, District Attorneys' offices, floors and galleries of the Holding Center, the clinic rooms, elevators, jury rooms and other County buildings and offices.
• Maintains security and discipline in the Holding Center courts, and ECMC Lockup; makes regular inspections in the Holding Center and courts, including checking locking devices and punching clocks; makes counts and prepares report sheets; maintains order and settles disturbances; notifies supervisor of all unusual incidents.
• Attends to the care and well-being of incarcerated individuals; secures and delivers sundries; delivers medical supplies; secures medical services and dispenses medicines; escorts incarcerated individuals for interviews with attorneys, relatives and law enforcement agencies; directs the serving of meals; directs the maintenance of incarcerated individuals' sanitation and hygiene; attends incarcerated individuals' phone calls.
• Performs clerical duties connected with the receiving, booking, searching and release of incarcerated individuals; accepts and records clothing and property; issues uniforms and assigns cell blocks; makes out composite census reports; maintains records on incarcerated individuals; arranges for clothing and records for transfer of persons to courts, penal institutions and hospitals.
• Guards prisoners of the Erie County Holding Center who are transferred to a hospital for treatment during confinement, or to the court lockup for trial or hearing; escorts prisoners to jail and courts; transports prisoners both in and out of State.
• Provides security for charges juries; serves as Court Crier during the Crier's absence; retrieves papers for Court Clerks.
• May assist the training instructor in training activities.
• Performs duties and successfully completes the training that meets the standards of the New York State Commission of Corrections.

Benefits

• The starting salary for Correction Officer is $58,727 (CSEA Corrections Facility JG XI)
• The starting annual salary for Deputy Sheriff – Officer is $64,944 (Teamster's JG VIII).
• Disabled and non-disabled veterans as defined in Section 85, New York State Civil Service Law, will have 10 and 5 points, respectively added to their earned scores if successful in the examination.
• CHILDREN AND SIBLINGS OF FIREFIGHTERS, POLICE OFFICERS, EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AND PARAMEDICS KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY shall be entitled to receive an additional ten points in a competitive examination for original appointment in the same municipality in which his or her parent/sibling has served.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED