Correctional Industries Supervisor ; General Industries

Do you work in the metalworking industry as a welder, fabricator, or machinist? Have you worked in a production environment and helped guide the work of others? Bring your technical experience to a supervisory opportunity with the State of Connecticut! The State of Connecticut, Department of Correction (DOC),has an opening for a Correctional Industries Supervisor 1 (General Industries) at Mac Dougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, CT.

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• Professional growth and development opportunities.
• A healthy work/life balance to all employees.
• This is a Hazardous Duty Position and offers an excellent pension plan.

This hazardous duty position is assigned to the Metal Shop, which produces items such as picnic table frames, aluminum signpost frames, plow pins, sign and cone holders, pipe gates, commissary carts, wing carts, truck boxes, and metal silverware holders. This role combines hands-on manufacturing and production oversight with the opportunity to teach incarcerated individuals practical metalworking skills.

This position is full-time, 36.25 hours per week, 6:15 AM - 1:30 PM.

• Supervising and instructing incarcerated individuals in metal fabrication, manufacturing methods, proper use of tools and materials, safety procedures, and equipment maintenance, cleaning, and repair.
• Planning daily production activities and assigning work.
• Generating and maintaining cost reports, production and inventory data, and time records.
• Maintaining discipline and enforcing security measures within the assigned area.
• Conducting performance reviews of assigned incarcerated individuals.
• Performing related duties as required.

The Department of Correction shall strive to be a leader in progressive correctional practices and partnered re-entry initiatives to support responsive evidence-based practices geared toward supporting reintegration and reducing recidivism under the Department's supervision. Safety and security shall be a priority component of this responsibility, coinciding with an unwavering respect for the human dignity of staff, victims, citizens and offenders.

In a Department of Correction facility or district this class is accountable for acting as a working supervisor and providing instruction for a group of inmates engaged in the manufacture, production or processing of products or services in the occupation indicated by the parenthetical title of the class.

• Supervises and instructs inmates in proper methods and techniques of manufacturing process or service, proper use of tools and materials, necessary safety rules and procedures and maintenance, cleaning and repair of equipment;
• Plans and routes work to be performed, assigning inmates to specific tasks;
• Estimates needs and requisitions supplies, materials and equipment necessary;
• Supervises maintenance and/or repair of equipment or arranges for outside service and material;
• Maintains cost, production inventory and time records and makes necessary reports on operations;
• Maintains discipline and enforces security measures within assigned areas;
• Maintains appropriate security procedures for tools, equipment, chemicals, etc.;
• Reviews and evaluates performance of assigned inmates;
• Submits reports relative to inmate disciplinary actions, recommendations for 'good time', furloughs, reassignments, etc.;
• May physically restrain inmates, quell disturbances and otherwise assist custodial forces in emergencies;
• May be required to operate a motor vehicle;
• Performs related duties as required.

• Considerable knowledge of methods, materials and equipment involved in occupational area;
• Knowledge of methods and techniques of production planning and control;
• Considerable
• interpersonal skills;
• oral communication skills;
• Ability to interpret plans, blueprints and diagrams where required;
• keep records and make reports;
• perform under stress and remain stable in pressure situations;
• train, instruct and supervise inmates in methods and techniques of the trade;
• utilize computer software;
• Supervisory ability.

Four (4) years of experience in a manufacturing environment involved in the areas of production, production planning and/or quality control which must have included some responsibility for the production output of other workers.