Job Posting
Assistant Crime Lab Director (Lieutenant)
St. Tammany Parish, LA Sheriff's Office
Salary: To be determined by experience.
Final Filing Date: Not stated.
Duties: Assists in locating, identifying, and collecting of evidence at crime scenes. Supervises employees assigned as crime scene technicians, latent print identification, firearms identification, trace evidence analysis, illegal narcotic identification, computer forensic analysis, video enhancement analysis and evidence management who evaluate, process, document, sketch, photograph, and manage evidence for use in criminal and civil cases by performing the following duties.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Supervises three sergeant's assigned as supervisors of crime scene processing, evidence management and forensic analysis.
- Maintains a reasonable availability to assist sergeants and to manage employees who are required to be available 24 hours a day.
- Respond to major scenes, homicides, shootings and ensure that sergeant is responding to assist employees if required.
- Checks and approves time of all employees under his/her command to ensure accuracy.
- Review reports for accuracy and completeness and ensure that reports are in the proper format, chronological order, spelling, content in correct.
- Ensures that all photographs of are high quality, in proper order, and have captured the required image.
- Maintains daily, weekly, and monthly stats generated by the employees of the crime lab and each month forward them to the director.
- Is aware of training requirements and / or mandated of employees and ensure that the employees receive the required training.
- Ensures that all personnel have equipment to perform required tasks.
- Keep inventory of all equipment purchased or assigned to the crime laboratory or its employees.
- Conducts inspections of all issued equipment, including departmental vehicles and lab equipment.
- Ensure that each employee maintains proper evidence integrity and protocol.
- Creates court worthy reports and documentation of crime scenes when required.
- Testifies in court when required.
- Ensures that quality control requirements are completed and that MDS (Material Data Sheets) are up to date.
- Ensures that training materiel are available to employees
- Conducts peer reviews of forensic examination results.
- Seeks financial grants to aid crime laboratory with the purchase of equipment and supplement overtime.
- Keep track of yearly maintenance contracts.
- Confirm standard operating guidelines are followed and updated as necessary.
- Attends LABCLAD meetings in the absence of the director.
Supervisory Responsibilities:Directly supervises employees assigned to the Crime Laboratory. Maintain supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
Requirements: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience:
A Bachelors Degree in Biology, Chemistry, or Science. Three years criminal law enforcement experience is preferred.
Language Skills:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write courts worthy reports and business correspondence. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions to fellow law enforcement personnel, attorneys, and court officials.
Mathematical Skills:
Ability to calculate figures, distance, weights, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
Reasoning Ability:
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
Valid Louisiana Motor Vehicle Operator's License; proof of residency of St. Tammany Parish (voter's registration card); birth certificate (minimum age of 21 years); Social Security Card. POST (Police Officer Standard Training) Level I certified or the ability to obtain POST Level I certification.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers, to handle, or feel; reach above head with hands and arms; balance or climb (on steps, and ladders); stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear, and smell. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit, lay and lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Due to the nature of this job the employee must sometimes work in remote locations and must be able to maneuver in these areas, such as jump over ditches, crawl underneath automobiles, and climb over fences.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat; and risk of electrical shock. Applicant must work shifts or be available as needed. In addition, the employee is expected to respond to emergency calls whenever necessary, 24 hours a day. The noise level in the work environment is moderate.
How to apply: For more information regarding this posting, contact the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office Crime Laboratory, Captain Danny Culpeper at dannyculpeper@stpso.com or Sgt. Harry O'Neal at harryoneal@stpso.com. To apply contact the Human Resources Department at 985-726-7700 or visit our website at www.stpso.com to apply on line.
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Posted: September 29, 2009
