Required Test: Law Enforcement
All applicants will be required to take The Law Enforcement Civil Service Exam (LECSE) implemented August 2017.
The LE Exam is conducted every - Wednesday and Friday, at 8:30am. Please contact Nueces County Sheriff Office, Recruiter Jeremy Tamez at (361) 887-2235 for scheduling details.
PEACE OFFICER CERTIFICATION PAY
Level Biweekly Pay
Basic $26.92
Intermediate $53.84
Advanced $69.23
Master $84.61
SUMMARY: Position serves as a "first line" supervisor of Correctional Officers.
In the absence of a Lieutenant, employee may assume the role of "Shift Commander".
When jail is "shorthanded", employee may assume the role of a Correctional Officer.
The employee is required to be on duty before, during, and after natural disasters and emergencies, as directed by the supervisor.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Assigns shift personnel to duty stations daily.
Conducts shift "briefing" daily.
Approves bonds for prisoner's releases from the Waco jail daily.
Interprets and explains departmental policies and procedures daily.
Enters information in a "logbook" daily.
Creates overtime schedules to fill vacancies on the appropriate shift monthly.
Submits reports to Administration to correct performance deficiencies and misconduct of employees thru disciplinary action as needed.
Performs duties as Release/Corrections Officer as necessary.
Performs duties as Main Console Operator as necessary.
Reviews Incident Reports daily.
Reviews Shift paperwork daily.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: Shares supervisory responsibility at the McKinzie Annex Jail (1 Sergeants) and the Waco Jail (2 Sergeants).
Directly supervises 128 officers and 2 civilians at the McKinzie Annex Jail and 1930 officers and 6 civilians at the Waco Jail.
The McKinzie Annex Jail includes 10 housing units which accommodates 528364 inmates.
The Waco Jail includes three floors and six housing units that accommodates 498656 inmates. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.
Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Any employee who drives a vehicle on official business must have a driving record which meets standards set by the County and the County’s insurance carrier.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: Associate's degree or equivalent from two-year college or technical school and a minimum of two years corrections experience.
Any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities, may be considered for current Nueces County employees only.
LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of inmates or employees of organization.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
REASONING ABILITY: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Certification as a Corrections Officer by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Educations is required.
A license as a Peace Officer by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Education may be preferred but not required.
Must possess a Texas Operators Driver’s License.
OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Working knowledge of the laws, standards and procedures governing the custody of persons.
Ability to deploy personnel effectively, supervise them in their work and advise them on technical problems of investigation and arrest.
Ability to prepare accurate reports.
Ability to maintain effective working relationships with the public and other county employees and officials.
Employee may be required to use database software for information retrieval.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; talk or hear; and taste or smell.
The employee is occasionally required to sit; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
Employee spends most of the workday standing or walking while transporting prisoners between units and walking from place to place when problems require personal attention.
Employee sits to write and review reports, review shift paperwork, record information in logs and conduct shift briefings.
Employee must be able to talk or hear to communicate with officers, civilians and inmates.
Ability to detect sounds that are out of the ordinary facilitates solving small problems before they become larger ones.
Employee uses hands to handle property and feel for contraband while conducting pat searches of individuals and cell searches.
Employee also uses hands to operate computer terminals, radio and telephone.
Employee stoops, kneels or crawls which conducting searches of cells and individuals.
Employee reaches with hands and arms in the retrieval of contraband from individual/cell hiding places.
Smell is used to detect some types of contraband (wine, marijuana, etc.) when it is hidden from view while "passing by" an area.
Additionally, employee uses sense of smell to detect smoke from fires set by inmates, inmate personal hygiene and unit sanitation.
This detection contributes to the overall security of the facility.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Employee lifts weight or exerts force in excess of 100 pounds to move unconscious inmates for medical examinations (ex. collapsed inmates, suicide victims), separate combative inmates and restrain hostile/aggressive inmates.
Employee uses close vision to read reports, review shift paperwork, read computer screen and review bonds.
Employee uses distance vision to identify situations occurring inside of units and down hallways.
Employee uses color vision to identify and describe property on intake/release of inmates and determine if officers are following departmental dress code.
Employee uses peripheral vision to determine if a "threat" exists while dealing with a particular problem.
Employee uses depth perception to determine if a "threat" to personal safety or another's safety is immediate and the amount of reaction time there is to diffuse the threat (especially if multiple "threats" are present).
Employee must be able to adjust focus to detect if hands are holding simple objects or simple objects made into weapons.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles.
The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.