Lieutenant

West Texas Detention Center•Sierra Blanca, TX

18h•Onsite

About The Position

The Lieutenant is responsible for organizing and conducting inspections and searches of inmates, detainees, and offenders, and their living and work areas. This role involves preparing records and reports, maintaining logs, and verifying inmate counts. The Lieutenant fosters a team effort among correctional officers by providing support, motivation, training, and assistance. They are responsible for reporting and investigating unusual occurrences, directing the work of employees to ensure effectiveness, and supervising the daily routine of the security section. The Lieutenant enforces post orders, ensures officers are familiar with shift assignments, handles disciplinary reports, and prepares reports of disturbances and shift activities. They function as a shift supervisor as needed, supervising, instructing, training, and ensuring the safety of assigned employees, inmates, detainees, and offenders. This includes scheduling employee and inmate work and off-duty time, and assisting in formulating security and work procedures. The role involves supervising and providing custody and security of inmates, detainees, and offenders, including observing their actions, performing searches, restraining and securing sometimes assaultive individuals, and transferring and transporting them. The Lieutenant also supervises and provides security for inmates, detainees, and offenders performing technical skills in various operations, which may involve physical demands such as climbing, working outdoors and indoors, and working around equipment. They respond to emergencies, including using force and deadly force when necessary, and read, review, and apply information from inmate records related to health, safety, and security. The Lieutenant ensures compliance with all policies, procedures, rules, and regulations, enforces disciplinary rules, and supervises record maintenance. A variety of 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.
Must be TCOLE certified or must be able to obtain TCOLE Jailers License where applicable.

Nice To Haves

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

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.