Deputy Sheriff - Institutions

Marion County requires on-site work. Remote work is not available.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office is seeking both trainee and certified applicants to join our Institutions team as a Deputy Sheriff. The Marion County Sheriff's Office is a full-service law enforcement agency consisting of four operational divisions:
Community Corrections, Enforcement, Institutions, and Operations. Institutions deputies provide 24‑hour supervision, monitor all adults in custody, and facilitate programs/services for pretrial and sentenced adults in custody.

Trainee Pay Rate: $31.40 - $37.87
Certified Pay Rate: $34.48 - $46.16
Hourly rate negotiable.

• Certification 8% (4% for intermediate and 4% for advanced)
• Bilingual 5%
• Field Training Officer 5%
• Instructor 5%
• Cell Extraction 5%
• SWAT Team 5%
• Longevity Pay

• Deputy Sheriff Trainee – $31.40
• Deputy Sheriff – $34.48 (step
  1), $36.04 (step
  2)... up to $46.16 (step
  7)
• Longevity 1 (10 years of service): $48.47
• Longevity 2 (15 years of service): $50.89
• Longevity 3 (20 years of service): $52.05

• Medical and dental insurance (Marion County pays 95%)
• PERS & OPSRP Retirement (Marion County pays employee’s 6%)
• Paid vacation, sick leave, 11 paid holidays, 1 commissioner’s day, 2 personal holidays
• Paid training program with accelerated field training for qualifying lateral applicants
• Employer provided Group Term Life Insurance, Long‑Term Disability, Voluntary Term Life, Voluntary Short‑Term Disability, Voluntary Deferred Compensation
• Employee Assistance Program, Retirement Medical Trust (employer contributions)

• Maintains security, sanitation, health, and medical standards by supervising adults in custody (AICs).
• Ensures due process rights of AICs in disciplinary matters and that AIC rights to the legal system are maintained.
• Ensures that AICs have access to materials, services and privileges according to the law.
• Adheres to, implements and enforces job‑related rules, policies, procedures and post orders in a manner which promotes the safe, secure and orderly operation of the facility.
• Attends and participates in facility and unit briefings, meetings, and training.
• Initiates and maintains neat, accurate and complete reports, memos, disciplinary reports, logbooks and unit rosters.
• Works in a 24‑hour, 7‑day facility which may require working day, swing and night shifts, weekends, holidays, and overtime.
• Remains constantly alert and observant the entire shift.
• Controls access to and egress from the facility.
• Conducts visual AIC welfare checks, counts, equipment and facility structural inspections.
• Conducts tactile‐clothed and visual‐unclothed searches of AICs to discover contraband and ensure AIC welfare.
• Conducts area searches to detect contraband or deficiencies in the security systems or physical structure of the facility.
• Transports and escorts AICs inside and outside the facility.
• Responds to and assists other staff in managing a variety of emergency situations.
• Uses approved facility restraints in the control of AICs.
• Operates fire‑fighting equipment in the suppression of institutional fires.
• Maintains and uses firearms.
• Monitors audio traffic on the radios, telephones, and intercommunication systems, and acts as the central dispatch for the entire facility in routine and emergency situations.
• Controls, issues, and records issuance of keys and radios.
• Monitors auditory and visual emergency alarm systems.
• Coordinates directly with the incident commander during emergency situations.
• Uses audio‑visual surveillance equipment to monitor movement in the hallways of the facility.
• Verbally provides instructions and orders to adults in custody over the intercom for the safe, secure and orderly operation of the facility.

• United States Citizen within one year of employment.
• At least 21 years of age at the time of employment (applicants 20 may apply if they turn 21 within 90 days of closing).
• Declared by a physician as able to perform the physical duties required by the occupation.
• Of good moral fitness, without legal conduct involving moral turpitude, dishonesty, fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, and conviction of…