Dept of Justice Jobs – Correctional Officer

Job Description:

You can have a meaningful career with an agency that truly values a diverse workforce. You will find a diverse workforce employed from entry level jobs to senior management positions. We protect public safety by ensuring federal offenders serve their sentences of imprisonment in facilities that are safe, humane, and provide reentry programming. Employees at correctional facilities perform correctional work regardless of their specific occupation.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provides supervision, care and correctional treatment of inmates and guidance to lower-graded Correctional Officers. Incumbent is concerned with maintenance of institution security contributing to the health and welfare of the inmates and the promotion of good public relations.
• Enforces rules and regulations governing facility security, inmate accountability and inmate conduct to ensure judicial sanctions are carried out and inmates remain in custody. From time to time, may be authorized to carry firearms and to use physical force, including deadly force, to maintain control of inmates.
• During institution emergencies or other periods of heavy workload or limited staff, may be required to work long and irregular hours, unusual shifts, Sundays, holidays and unexpected overtime. Information as to operations and procedures is provided by post orders, BOP program statements, local supplements, custodial manual, internal correspondence and staff meetings. Incumbent must be flexible and have a broad knowledge base to use own initiative in the resolution of problem situations.

Job Requirements:

• U.S. Citizenship is Required.
• Providing supervision, care and security of inmates in a correctional environment.
• Enforcing rules and regulations governing correctional institution security, inmate accountability and inmate conduct.

Qualification & Experience:

• One full academic year of graduate education with major study in criminal justice, social science, or other field related to the position is qualifying for GL-07.
• Experience supervising inmates throughout the institution and providing instructions related to institutional procedures and sanitation.

Job Details:

Company: U.S. Department of Justice

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Safford, AZ, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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