Detention/Transportation Lieut
Company: Trailboss Enterprises, Inc.
Location: Laredo
Posted on: May 26, 2023
Job Description:
Job Title
Detention/Transportation Lieut
Location
Laredo - Laredo, TX 78040 US (Primary)
# of Hires Needed
1
Job Type
Full-time
Job Description
Supervise Detention/Transportation Officers during a scheduled
shift. May perform Detention/Transportation Officer duties to
include: Perform various duties related to detention, safeguarding,
security and escort of violators of immigration laws, exercise
surveillance over detainees, and maintain order and discipline,
attend to sheltering, feeding, and physical well-being of
detainees, and counseling of alien detainees on personal matters;
guard detainees at deportation or exclusion hearings, recognize
potentially hazardous health, safety, security, or discipline
problems, supervise voluntary work details, and encourage
participation in organized recreational activities.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Supervisory Duties:
- Observe, supervise, instruct and coordinate
Detention/Transportation Officers in detention and transportation
activities.
- Conduct beginning of shift inspection of
Detention/Transportation Officers to ensure they meet Company dress
and appearance standards.
- Conduct daily inspection of officers credentials at beginning
of work shift.
- Schedule, prioritize and assign work on a daily basis. Make
team assignments and match teams to workload.
- Supervise, evaluate and participate in the work of subordinate
Detention/Transportation Officers.
- Insure Detention/Transportation Officers are properly
dispatched, perform vehicle and equipment checks, and meet tasked
assignments.
- Evaluate procedures and personnel and implement appropriate
corrective actions.
- Assist in the development of more efficient and effective
methods and procedures for Detention/Transportation Officer
operations.
- Provide muster pass daily to staff.
General Duties:
- Immediately report incidents to the Transportation Coordinator
and Program Manager; follow up with supplemental reports as
necessary; assist Program Manager and Department of Homeland
Security/Immigration and Customs Enforcement with investigation as
necessary.
- Conduct and provide written post check for all posts on
shift.
- Prepare employee disciplinary reports and forward to Program
Manager via Transportation Coordinator for adjudication.
- Required to wear approved duty uniform with shoes or boots and
uniform web gear (i.e., duty belt, holster, handcuffs, cuff case,
and magazine pouch).
Firearms Specific Duties:
- Issue weapons and ammunition to Detention/Transportation
Officers.
- Ensure weapon and ammunition are safeguarded at all times.
- Verify on each shift the accounting of all firearms and
ammunition.
- Ensure Detention/Transportation Officers properly clear and
secure weapons and ammunition for turn-in at the end of each
shift.
Airport Transports (if so tasked):
- Escort detainee(s) to/from inbound/outbound flights and
arrival/departure gates at the designated location specified by the
acting Shift Supervisor or higher authority.
- Constantly guard detainee(s) with a minimum of public contact
during the time prior to boarding the aircraft.
- Ascertain there are no unobservable exits possibly allowing
detainee(s) to escape.
- Remain at the gate until the carrier gate attendant verbally
verifies the aircraft departure.
- Verify departure of detainee(s) in writing to the Shift
Supervisor and Department of Homeland Security/ Immigration and
Customs Enforcement.
- Remain at the gate until the arriving alien has been taken into
custody, unless the flight has been canceled or the acting Shift
Supervisor has given verification other arrangements have been
made.
Specific Transportation Duties:
- Ensure driver and motor carrier compliance with Department of
Transportation regulations for the bus/van drivers.
- Submit driver reports per the Transport Manual and state and
federal regulations in a timely manner.
- Report transportation and administrative mileage by vehicle to
Program Manager.
- Attend and ensure full compliance with safety audits and
inspections from state and federal authorities.
- Provide compliance auditing, record maintenance, and provide
additional driver instruction/counseling to ensure records are
completed properly and executed by all drivers for vehicle trip
mileage logs, daily driver logs, pre-trip and post-trip inspection
reports, and hours of service documentation.
- Ensure compliance with random/annual drug and alcohol screening
requirements.
- Provide driver history information requested by other motor
carriers/subsequent employers
- Ensure driver compliance with driver safety program.
- Conduct (no less than) weekly inspection of all transport
vehicles.
- Ensure all required equipment/documentation for detention
transport is loaded in vehicles or kept in vehicles prior to
transport; such items include trip mileage logs, daily driver logs,
pre/post-trip inspection reports, first aid kit, accident
investigation kit, proof of insurance, safety flares, restraint
equipment, etc.
- Prepare service due reports and ensure all vehicles receive
scheduled and required preventative and periodic maintenance, and
copies of all reports are kept in each vehicle.
- Ensure copies of current to-date repair records are maintained
in each vehicle.
- Ensure daily all in-service buses have master switches turned
off.
- Ensure all safety equipment is operational in all
vehicles.
- Ensure all buses are started once weekly and driven for
one-hour on a weekly basis when not in service.
- Ensure any driver dispatched to perform a run has a current and
valid Commercial Driver's License with passenger and air brake
endorsements and their medical certificate in their possession and
neither is expired. Commercial Driver's Licenses and medical
certificates will be inspected by the Shift Supervisor prior to
departure.
- Ensure any required detainee documentation is provided to the
transport driver prior to departure.
- Maintain copies of original fuel and repair tickets for
reporting purposes; forward original receipts to the Program
Manager.
- Ensure vehicles are used equitably to achieve similar mileage
among vehicles.
General Transportation Duties:
- Ensure detainees are properly prepared for and transported in
accordance with Performance-Based National Detention Standards.
Preparation includes:
- Patting down all detainees prior to boarding vehicles.
- Applying appropriate restraints prior to boarding
vehicles.
- Monitoring detainees to ensure appropriate behavior during
transport.
- Securing detainee transfer paperwork in the vehicle and
ensuring appropriate distribution upon delivery of detainees to
destinations.
- Ensure inventory of detainee baggage/valuables has been
properly completed by visual examination of appropriate
documentation
- Advise supervisor at least 45 days in advance of expiration of
Commercial Driver's License and medical certificate.
Other Collateral Duties: Perform other duties as directed by the
Transportation Coordinator.
Job Requirements
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education and/or Experience:
- Must be a United States Citizen.
- Must possess a High School diploma or General Equivalency
Diploma.
- Must be 21 years of age or older.
- Must have at least one year of experience as a law enforcement
officer or, military policeman, or six (6) months experience as
security officer engaged in functions related to detaining civil or
administrative detainees.
- Must have at least two years' experience as a detention
supervisor; or two years' experience as a Corrections Transport
Supervisor
- Clear criminal history; no felonies or Class A
misdemeanors.
- Must have and maintain a current/valid Class B Commercial
Driver's License with passenger and air brake endorsements. Class A
Commercial Driver's License with passenger endorsement is
acceptable. Must maintain a safe driving record.
- Must have and maintain a valid Texas State Level 3 Armed Guard
permit.
- Must pass a background investigation and obtain a security
clearance.
Language Skills. Able to:
- Write clearly and concisely using acceptable grammar,
punctuation and spelling; write organized, complete, accurate and
factual reports.
- Communicate in English using complex sentences using normal
word order with present and past tenses.
- Express and exchange ideas via spoken word during activities
where they must convey details or important spoken instructions to
others accurately, sometimes quickly and loudly.
- Understand and apply written and verbal orders, rules and
regulations.
Physical Demands. Able to:
- Perceive the nature of sounds with no less than 40 dB loss at
Hz, 1000 Hz and 2000 Hz with or without correction.
- Receive detailed information through oral communication.
- Maintain a minimum standard of visual acuity with or without
correction enabling the employee to complete clerical tasks, and
observe detainees.
- Stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, push, pull, lift, grasp, and be
able to perceive the attributes of an object such as size, shape,
and temperature.
- Move wrists, hands and/or fingers frequently and
regularly.
- Occasionally exert up to 100 pounds of force. This may include,
but is not limited to all use of force and restraint
techniques.
- Adapt to temperature changes (including extreme heat).
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran.
Keywords: Trailboss Enterprises, Inc., Laredo , Detention/Transportation Lieut, Professions , Laredo, Texas
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