Superintendent B | CCCC

Superintendent B | CCCC

Exempt Band 4

Location:
Cedar Creek Corrections Center | Little Rock, WA

Salary: $137,640 Annually

Are you a mission‑driven leader who believes public safety is strengthened through accountability, innovation, and positive change? Do you have the executive presence and operational expertise to lead a complex organization where every decision matters? If so, the Superintendent B at Cedar Creek Corrections Center could be your opportunity to make a lasting impact!

The Superintendent B will serve as the executive administrator and appointing authority for a correctional facility housing and managing adult incarcerated individuals across minimum to medium custody levels. This role is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the institution while ensuring safe, secure, and effective daily operations.

• Administering, monitoring, and overseeing operations, security, safety, and emergency response activities in a correctional facility
• Ensuring clean, safe facility operations
• Supporting effective communications throughout the organization
• Providing two‑way communication between all levels of staff and incarcerated individuals
• Maintaining the highest standards of personal/professional and ethical conduct, supporting a diverse workforce, and fostering a discrimination‑free environment
• Developing operational goals and ensuring those objectives are reached
• Strengthening public confidence in the integrity of facility staff by demonstrating fairness, honesty, and compliance with laws and regulations
• Promoting an environment of public trust free from fraud and abuse of authority
• Respecting and protecting privileged information
• Ensuring no incarcerated individual is given control over others except within sanctioned therapeutic contexts
• Developing and directing implementation plans for sudden shifts in custody and security requirements
• Monitoring application of federal and state laws, rules, and orders
• Ensuring policies and procedures comply with the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)
• Developing an Emergency Response Plan and conducting staff training and drills
• Facilitating community engagement by conducting tours, speaking to groups, and publishing information about the center
• Encouraging community agencies to participate in policy development, coordinated planning, and interagency consultation

• High school diploma or equivalent

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher from an accredited institution recognized by CHEA, the U.S. Department of Education, or an equivalent foreign institution
• Five (5) or more years of broad‑based, progressive managerial or administrative experience at a multi‑level custody adult corrections environment, including supervisory experience and experience in at least five of the following areas:
• Emergency Management (Incident Command System) and contingency planning
• Security Management
• Prison programs
• Sustainability, evidence‑based programs
• Correctional practice
• Theory and law
• Budget administration and development
• Incarcerated individual classification processes and policy
• Labor relations, public relations methods and application
• Training and staff development
• Experience working with unions
• Strong communication and leadership competencies, including mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution
• Demonstrates honesty, strong work ethic, dependability, teamwork, dignity, and respect
• Ability to network and maintain external relationships with community, state agencies, and legislative bodies
• Working knowledge of constitutional requirements, WACs, RCWs, policies, operational memoranda, and relevant court decisions
• Knowledge of federal court rulings impacting health, mental health, special needs, executions, staff safety, and emergency response
• Knowledge of labor/management relations, collective bargaining, negotiation, grievance resolution, WACs, discipline, and mediation
• Familiarity with emergency response team capabilities, hostage negotiation principles, and disturbance management
• Ability to remain calm and communicate effectively under extreme pressure and competing interests
• Experience utilizing project management or LEAN methodology; working knowledge of total quality management principles
• Experience in facility expansion/construction projects
• Experience in budget administration and development

DOC is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, honorably discharged veteran status, genetic information, or the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability or the use of a trained guide dog or service animal by a person with a disability.