• Receives and processes prisoners, through the computerized booking system, fingerprinting, photographing and so forth. Accompanies prisoner to designated housing unit. Receives personal property.
• Conducts regular floor counts and cell checks to ensure that all inmates are accounted for and properly secured. Observes inmate behavior and takes appropriate actions in case of fights, property damage or other incidents.
• Distributes meals to inmates collects and counts dishes and eating utensils.
• Releases inmates from cells for visits with attorneys, bondsmen, ministers, or family members.
• Maintains a log of shift activity, prepare incident reports. Confers with prior shift members for potential problem areas.
• Oversees inmate workers.
• Participates in periodic searches of inmates and cells as part of the security process.
• Provides medications and other medical care. Performs CPR and emergency First Aid when required in emergency situations.
• As authorized, releases inmates.
• Transports inmates to court, hospital, doctor and other correctional facilities, etc.
• Guards inmates in hospitals, courts and other places outside the jail as required.
• Carries out Court Officer duties when so assigned.
• Proficient in operating a car in a safe manner.
• Communicate effectively over law enforcement radio channels while initiating and responding to radio communications, often under adverse conditions.
• Load, unload, aim and fire handguns and other agency firearms from a variety of body positions in situations that justify the use of deadly force while maintaining emotional control under extreme stress.
• Manage interpersonal conflicts to maintain order.
• Perform searches of persons which involve touching and feeling to detect potential weapons and contraband.
• Read and comprehend rules, regulations, policies, procedures and the law for the purposes of ensuring appropriate officer behavior/response and performing enforcement activities involving inmates and the public.
• Subdue resisting subjects using hands and feet while employing defensive tactics maneuvers and approved non-lethal weapons.

• Receives requests from inmates for commissary items, obtains and records release of monies from personal property accounts. Keeps the inmates' trust accounts up to date.
• On occasion, personally performs cleaning tasks in the jail area.
• Assists inmates with personal needs and materials as authorized.
• Records daily entries and periodically prepares summary reports on matters such as count, unusual occurrences and so forth.
• Maintains records of inmate release information.
• Performs other related duties as directed by higher authority.
• Assist the road patrol division as directed by higher authority in times of emergency.
• As an experienced corrections deputy, is responsible for the training of probationary officers after appropriate training in Department approved method.

Physical Requirements:
[This job requires the ability to perform the essential functions contained in this description. These include, but are not limited to, the following requirements. Reasonable accommodations will be made for otherwise qualified applicants unable to fulfill one or more of these requirements]:

Light Work: Exerting up to 30 lbs. of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 lbs. of force frequently and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. In an emergency, must be capable of moving an unconscious person to safety if the situation dictates. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Sedentary Work. Light work usually requires walking or standing to a significant degree. However if the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work.

Must not exhibit symptoms of claustrophobia to the extent that he/she is unable to work in a closed in environment and/or cannot perform the essential functions of the job while wearing protective equipment including, but not limited to Scott Air packs.

Reaching, Handling, Fingering and/or Feeling: (Reaching - Extending the hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.) (Handling - Seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with hand or hands (fingering not involved).) (fingering - Picking, pinching or otherwise working with fingers primarily (rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling).) (Feeling - Perceiving attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature or texture by means of receptors in skin, particularly those of finger tips).

Talking and/or Hearing: (Talking - Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken word.) (Hearing - Perceiving nature of sounds by ear.)

Seeing: The ability to perceive the nature of objects by the eye. The important aspects of vision are:

• Acuity, far - clarity of vision at 20 feet or more.
• Acuity, near - clarity of vision at 20 inches or less.
• Depth Perception - three dimensional vision. Ability to judge distance and space relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are.
• Field of Vision - area that can be seen up and down or right and left while eyes are fixed on a given point.
• Accommodation - adjustment of lens of eye to bring an object into sharp focus. This item is especially important when doing near-point work at varying distances from eye.
• Color Vision - ability to identify and distinguish colors.
• Worker must have the ability to perform the essential functions of the job at night as well as during the day and specifically must be free from a condition commonly referred to as"night blindness".

Working Conditions

The worker is subject to both environmental conditions; activities occur both inside and outside.

Hazards: Conditions or situations in which there is danger to life, health or bodily injury. this category includes a variety of physical hazards, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical shock, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to burns and radiant energy, exposure to all types of explosives and exposure to toxic chemical and biological agents. Physical hazards dealing with unruly inmates.

Patrol car/van, firearms, handcuffs, fire equipment, alarms, call box, camera, telephone equipment, map, protective clothing, radio, respirator, computers, baton, taser and o.c. gas.

This position is benefited and is subject to the Eaton County Sheriff (non-supervisory) Police Officers Association of Michigan.

Eaton County offeres a variety of benefits that will support our employees both during their career and after. View the Benefit Page for more information.

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