Superintendent A | WCC

State of Washington•Mason County – Shelton, WA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Leadership in corrections is more than managing a facility—it is shaping a culture of positive change. If you are a strategic, mission-driven executive ready to lead at the highest level, the Superintendent A at Washington Corrections Center offers the chance to make a meaningful impact on public safety and institutional excellence. The Superintendent serves as the executive administrator and appointing authority for facility houses and manages adult incarcerated individuals across the full spectrum of custody levels. In this role, the Superintendent provides comprehensive leadership, long-term planning, and strategic direction for all aspects of institutional operations, ensuring alignment with the agency’s mission to improve public safety. The Superintendent is responsible for the full scope of facility management, including fiscal oversight, classification processes, plant maintenance, safety and sanitation standards, educational and vocational programming, work programs, and all security and custody operations. This executive leader ensures operational excellence while fostering an environment that supports rehabilitation, accountability, and professional standards. Strong collaboration across divisions will ensure success while operating within the facility, including with Health Services, Administrative Operations, Reentry, Classification and Transportation, Community Corrections, and Correctional Industries. By working in partnership with these stakeholders, the Superintendent ensures seamless integration of services and programs that support both institutional stability and successful reentry outcomes. This is a rare opportunity to lead a complex organization where decisions have lasting impact. If you are prepared to guide a correctional facility with integrity, vision, and decisive leadership, we invite you to bring your expertise to a role that advances safety, strengthens operations, and supports meaningful change.

Requirements

A proven leader, motivator, mentor and change agent, who possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills
Must adhere and enforce Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Respect (EDIR) principles, with the ability to supervise and manage a wide range of personalities and positions
Experienced, innovative correctional manager with five years or more of broad-based, progressive managerial or administrative experience in a multi-level custody, adult corrections environment.
Elements of this experience should include a minimum of three (3) years in an executive leadership role
Budget administration and development experience
Effective project management skills
Possess a working knowledge of total quality principles
Communication skills and leadership competencies, including mediating, negotiating, and resolving conflict
Demonstration and exemplification of the qualities the department seeks in all of its employees; those who are honest, have a strong work ethic, are dependable, achieve results through teamwork, and convey dignity and respect

Responsibilities

Planning, leading, organizing and controlling the work performed by the organization
Administering, monitoring, and oversight of operations, security, safety and emergency response activities in a correctional facility
Supporting effective communications throughout the organization
Maintaining the highest standards of personal/professional and ethical conduct and supporting the state’s goals for a diverse workplace
Providing a working environment free from discrimination and harassment and promotes diversity
Developing operational goals and working objectives and ensuring those objectives are reached
Strengthening public confidence in the integrity of facility staff by demonstrating and setting the tone for the highest standards of personal and professional integrity, fairness, honesty, and compliance with both the spirit and the letter of the law
Promoting an environment of public trust free from fraud, abuse of authority, and misuse of public property
Respecting and protecting privileged information accessible through the course of official duties
Ensuring that no incarcerated individual or group of incarcerated is given control or authority over other incarcerated individuals with the exception of activities sanctioned within the context of a Therapeutic Community
Developing and directing implementation plans to respond to sudden shifts in custody and security requirements that require significant changes in policies, procedures, and staff training
Monitoring application of federal and state laws, administration of rules, regulations and orders of other agencies with jurisdiction
Ensuring policies and procedures comply with the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)
Developing an Emergency Response Plan and staff training/drills to ensure institutional readiness to respond to a wide variety of emergencies
Facilitating and encouraging public information and education activities by conducting tours, speaking to community groups, and by providing written information concerning WCC operations
Encouraging community agencies that the facility has contact with to participate in policy development
Serving in the capacity, and making decisions for incidents that occur at the facility level, on a rotational basis
Determining how, in an emergency, incident, or significant event, the facility's operations are managed
Authorizing activities and providing direction for all facility operations, while also keeping Headquarters apprised of the situation, and requesting assistance as needed
Opening and assuming and assuming command of the Incident Command Post (ICP) in the event of a major emergency or disaster
Serving as an Incident Commander during emergencies, with responsibilities to manage the facilities response and recovery from critical incidents and significant events
Determining allocation of resources and personnel, management of the incident based on emergency protocols, and coordination activities with the facilities/offices and other federal, state, and local agencies while communicating through the Headquarters Duty Officer and the Emergency Operations Center (EOC)