CDOC Correctional Industries Correctional Support Trades Supervisor Rover Denver Complex

State of Colorado • Denver, CO

10d • Onsite

About The Position

Colorado Correctional Industries (CCi) is a cash-funded, self-supporting division of the Colorado Department of Corrections. This position ensures the safety and security of the general public, staff, and inmates. It prepares inmates for community re-entry by promoting the Colorado Department of Corrections Mission, Vision, and Values while adhering to a high level of integrity and commitment. The role involves maintaining safety and security through clear communication, training staff and inmates on the proper use of controlled items, keys, tools, equipment, and chemicals. It enforces security procedures, monitors the workplace and offender behavior, initiates reprimands, and physically controls inmates if necessary. The position also monitors, supervises, and escorts inmates, performs counts and transportation, responds to emergencies, and writes reports. It ensures offender workers are trained, tasks are completed on time, and evaluations are done. The role tracks offender hours and pay, creates schedules, assigns tasks, resolves grievances, reduces idleness, and creates real-life work opportunities. It holds inmates accountable for attendance and uses PCDCIS Chronological Entry to report behavior. The position ensures the safe, secure, efficient, compliant, and cost-effective execution of assigned tasks and projects by performing hands-on instructional work alongside staff and offender crews. Primary responsibilities include training and supervising inmates in profitable work ventures such as light construction, warehouse management, shipping and receiving, and delivery/setup of CCi products. It maintains customer relations, delivers customer service training, and develops leads for new customers. The role ensures operational flexibility by providing sector and statewide logistics support, working in multiple locations under varying schedules, and performing overtime. It operates State Fleet and CDOC vehicles in compliance with guidelines. It implements facility policies and procedures for safety and security through control of tools, materials, and supplies. The position is responsible for offender movement and accountability, managing the program operating budget, and maintaining inventories. It recommends capital equipment purchases and provides supervision, training, scheduling, and evaluations for offender workers, recording attendance for payroll. It develops and maintains a database of offender training records and ensures the safety and security of the public, facility staff, and offenders by evaluating work conditions and instructing on safety methods. It provides custody, surveillance, supervisory, transport, shakedown, and count duties, ensuring proper control of keys, tools, equipment, and chemicals, and compliance with all policy/procedural guidelines. This position may be eliminated if funding is discontinued, and relocation may be required.

Requirements

• Four (4) years of work experience in warehouse management and customer service.
• Correctional experience must be security-related duties where primary responsibilities throughout a shift include monitoring and controlling inmate movement throughout their daily schedules, discovering and preventing contraband and responding to emergencies; ensuring proper key/tool/chemical/equipment control, use, storage and accountability; advising inmates in matters concerning work, programs, appropriate behavior and decision making in order to prepare them for successful community re-entry.
• Ability to motivate others to work cohesively in accomplishing tasks.
• Ability to maintain industrial tools and equipment.
• Ability to effectively work with offenders through daily instruction in a variety of situations.
• Ability to respond to emergency situations (such as fights, fires, and escapes).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Exceptional discernment and decision making skills.
• Ability to read and comprehend the English language.
• Ability to effectively communicate fluently in English both verbally and in writing.
• Self-control, a strong sense of ability to work in stressful, potentially violent situations.
• Ability to remain alert, emotionally stable, and mentally resilient under pressure and observant throughout their shift.
• Tolerance to stress, confinement, and high-stakes interaction.
• Ability to create accessible documents and technical content that follows plain language guidelines with accessibility in mind.
• Must be 21 years of age.
• Possess a valid driver’s license.
• Drivers must maintain a valid, non-restricted Colorado driver license, obey traffic laws, and be able to safely operate a motor vehicle.
• Possess a high school diploma or GED.
• Have NO felony convictions.
• Applicants must have valid U.S. work authorization at the time of application.
• Successfully pass all modules of the six-week Colorado Department of Corrections Basic Training, to include English reading comprehension, relevant competency assessments and written/practical exams in Defensive Tactics.
• Possess the physical ability to successfully complete Defensive Tactics.
• Must be able to see and hear in order to observe, address and respond to potential breaches in safety and security.
• Seize, hold, control or subdue violent or assaultive persons and defend oneself or others to prevent injury.
• Demonstrate body agility, strength of all four limbs and the ability to walk and climb stairs consistently.
• Work in situations involving assaultive behavior, physical control of another person and/or restraint situations.
• Deal with individuals with a range of moods and behaviors, utilizing tactfulness and a congenial, personable manner.
• Work with people of the opposite sex, diverse racial ethnic groups, mentally ill and emotionally disturbed offenders.
• Communicate by talking, listening and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information, assignments.
• Work in an environment with fluctuating noise and temperature (hot and cold) which may include working outdoors in inclement weather and/or concrete floor/wall work settings.
• Willing and able to travel.
• Willing and able to work various shifts, days, afternoons, graveyards (nights) which includes a rotating shift schedule.
• TB (tuberculosis) screening is required of all new employees upon hire.
• Successful completion of a background investigation is required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in the Correctional environment.
• Experience in supervising and/or training others in closely related experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintains safety and security of the facility through clear and accurate communication.
• Trains and guides staff and inmates in the proper use of controlled items, keys, tools, equipment, and chemicals.
• Enforces security procedures by conducting searches.
• Monitors workplace environment and offender behavior, paying close attention to changes, inappropriate activity, or potential problems.
• Initiates verbal reprimands when warranted and, if necessary, physically controls inmates with the proper application of restraints or "use of force" techniques.
• Monitors, supervises, and escorts inmates according to facility policy and limits offender access to restricted areas.
• Performs offender counts and transportation.
• Responds to emergency situations such as fights, fires, and escapes according to agency policy and writes and submits required reporting.
• Ensures offender workers are trained in work areas and ensures timely completion of tasks.
• Ensures offender evaluations are completed, tracks and calculates offender hours and pay, creates schedules, assigns tasks, and resolves informal grievances according to agency policy.
• Reduces offender idleness and creates real-life work opportunities to prepare inmates for community re-entry.
• Holds inmates accountable for attendance and utilizes PCDCIS Chronological Entry to report/track both positive and negative behavior.
• Ensures the safe, secure, efficient, compliant, and cost-effective execution of assigned tasks and projects by performing "hands on" instructional work alongside staff and offender crew.
• Trains and supervises inmates across various CCi cost centers in profitable work ventures, including light construction, warehouse management, shipping and receiving orders, and the delivery and set up of CI products.
• Maintains optimum customer relations through written, electronic, and phone contact, delivers customer service training, and proactively develops leads for new customers.
• Ensures operational flexibility by providing sector and statewide logistics support, working in multiple locations under varying schedules, and performing overtime duties.
• Operates State Fleet and CDOC vehicles in strict compliance with federal, state, and restriction guidelines.
• Implements facility policy and procedures to ensure safety and security through tool, materials, and supply control.
• Responsible for offender movement and accountability.
• Manages the program operating budget to ensure adequate supplies, equipment, and material are available throughout the fiscal year.
• Maintains program equipment and material inventories.
• Recommends Capital equipment purchases.
• Provides supervision, training, scheduling, and evaluations for offender workers.
• Records attendance and provides information to formulate payroll.
• Develops and maintains a database of offender training records to ensure that offenders are properly trained for the emergency to which they are responding.
• Ensures the safety and security of the public, facility staff, and offenders by evaluating work conditions and instructing staff and offenders in proper safety methods.
• Provides custody, surveillance, supervisory, transport, shakedown, and count duties.
• Ensures proper key, tool, equipment, and chemical control.
• Ensures compliance of all policy/procedural guidelines.
• Enforces safety/security procedures by conducting inspections, work site searches, and monitoring the work environment.

Benefits

• Distinctive career advancement opportunities throughout the state system
• Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan plus 401K and 457 plans.
• Medical and dental health plans
• Short and long term disability coverage
• Paid life insurance
• 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave
• Wellness program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Training opportunities

What This Job Offers

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