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About the Role
Mower County is seeking dependable, professional, and safety-focused individuals to join our Jail team as a Correctional Officer. This position supervises inmates, enforces facility rules, conducts security checks, performs searches, assists with booking and release, maintains records, and responds to incidents. Sound judgment, professionalism, integrity, effective communication, and composure in challenging situations are required. Employees must conduct themselves in a manner that supports credible testimony in court or other proceedings.
Responsibilities
- Maintain the safety and security of inmates, staff, visitors, and the correctional facility.
- Supervise inmates and enforce applicable facility rules, policies, procedures, and regulations.
- Conduct routine security and inmate well-being checks.
- Monitor inmate behavior and respond appropriately to safety or security concerns.
- Conduct searches of inmates, cells, housing areas, and other areas of the facility.
- Perform gender-specific searches or related duties when required.
- Perform booking and release duties.
- Collect, document, and maintain required inmate and medical information.
- Maintain accurate records, reports, logs, and other required documentation.
- Monitor inmate movement and activities throughout the facility.
- Respond rapidly to emergencies, disturbances, code calls, and other security incidents.
- Use approved defensive tactics, restraints, and other security equipment when necessary.
- Follow applicable federal and state laws, County ordinances, and correctional policies and procedures.
- Protect inmate rights while maintaining facility safety and security.
- Communicate professionally with inmates, coworkers, supervisors, law enforcement personnel, visitors, and members of the public.
- Provide credible and effective testimony in court or other proceedings when required.
- Perform other duties of a similar nature or level as assigned.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED.
- Minimum of three years of work experience.
- Valid driver's license or evidence of equal mobility.
Skills
- Jail facility policies, procedures, and security requirements.
- Federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations.
- Inmate rights.
- Search and seizure procedures.
- Defensive tactics and self-defense techniques.
- Supervising and managing inmate behavior.
- Responding effectively to emergencies and disturbances.
- Maintaining accurate records, reports, and logs.
- Using computers and related software applications.
- Operating modern office and correctional equipment.
- Communicating effectively both orally and in writing.
- Following detailed policies, procedures, and work direction.
- Exercising sound judgment in stressful or rapidly changing situations.
- Maintaining professionalism, confidentiality, and appropriate boundaries.
- Ability to distinguish between colors used for inmate security and facility operations.
- Working with two-way radios, computers, telephones, fingerprinting equipment, restraints, irritants, Tasers, and other correctional equipment.
- Potential exposure to bodily fluids, communicable diseases, hazardous chemicals, disagreeable odors, individuals experiencing mental health concerns, and individuals under the influence of controlled substances.
- Employees may occasionally be required to adjust their normal work schedules to maintain adequate staffing.
- Work schedules may include days, evenings, nights, weekends, holidays, and other nontraditional hours.
- Access confidential information only when necessary to perform assigned job responsibilities.
- Take appropriate measures to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure of confidential information.
- Comply with Mower County Data Practices and Data Security policies and all applicable Minnesota and federal laws regarding confidential information.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum of three years of work experience
Education Level
- High school diploma or GED
Salary/Compensations
- $27.66 - $37.34 per hour
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Paid time off
- 13 paid holidays
- Minnesota PERA retirement
- Weekend, night, and holiday premiums
- Health insurance, including some plans with a $0 monthly employee premium
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- On-site fitness room
- Additional benefit and retirement programs
- Minnesota Paid Leave Program
- Employer-paid short-term disability
About the Company
- Mower County is seeking dependable, professional, and safety-focused individuals to join our Jail team as a Correctional Officer.