Position Summary: Performs correctional work in maintaining order and supervision of the Lansing Correctional Facility. Duties and responsibilities involve being assigned as officer in charge of cell house, dormitory, or a living unit; supervision of subordinate Correctional Officer(s) and/or residents; or being assigned to work any shift or post which may change in accordance with needs of the institution. Cooperates with other Corrections Officers of all ranks in exchanging information and accomplishing the long and short-range objectives of the Lansing Correctional Facility.
Job Responsibilities may include but are not limited to the following:
- Ensures that ordered, disciplined, secure, sanitary and safe conditions are established and maintained in cell house, during their living quarters, at meals, in classrooms, at work sites, activity and program areas, in the hospital, kitchen and bathing areas.
- Engages in or supervises taking and reporting periodic counts of residents to ensure that all are present and accounted for, searches of residents at their work, recreation, in the infirmary, while in food service and in their housing units to prevent the secreting of contraband and fabrication of lethal weapons, by physical pat down in either standing or prone position.
- Supervises the daily activity schedules (wake-up call, work call, meal lines, sick call, recreation yard scheduling and visiting programs among others). Ensures that each resident is aware of his assignment and/or scheduled appointments and that proper shakedown procedures have been conducted prior to the resident entering or leaving.
- Attempts to modify for improvement antisocial attitudes in residents; represents free society by providing a good citizen role model by demonstrating skillful communications, by maintaining a neat and well-groomed appearance and by always presenting a high level deportment.
