Job Description

Posting number: 11265

Department: Sheriff's Office

Job classification: 9-1-1 Dispatcher - Sheriff's Office

Posting type: Open

Categories: Law Enforcement, 911 Telecommunications

Summary

Receive, process, and dispatch both emergency and non-emergency requests for law enforcement services within Tarrant County.

Examples of duties

1. Utilizes 9-1-1 telephones.
2. Utilizes administrative telephones.
3. Utilizes police radio.
4. Performs general office duties.
5. Performs all other related duties as required.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.
• One (1) year of work experience.
• TCIC/NCIC Full Access Operator, Dispatcher, and 911 Basic Telecommunicator Certification within one (1) year.
• Basic Computer Skills, General Office Skills.

Supplemental information

While performing the duties of this position, the incumbent is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, stoop, climb, lift, twist, push and pull. Position is considered essential and may require incumbents to report during events of natural and manmade disasters including but not limited to having to travel to and from duty assignment in hazardous conditions including but not limited to inclement weather. Some lifting required up to fifty (50) pounds. Must be willing to work overtime, weekends, holidays, rotating shifts, evenings and nights.

There is exposure to household type cleaning agents (such as diluted bleach, alcohol based window cleaner, chlorine based cleanser); and occasional exposure to pesticides. There is occasional exposure to inmate control devices that emit pepper agents via aerosol spray, gel or foam. There is the potential of exposure to toxic smoke.

Special ADA Physical Statement:

Applicants must demonstrate distant and near vision of 20/30 corrected or uncorrected in each eye and must be able to read typewritten material with or without glasses. Must be able to see without glasses (with or without the use of contact lenses); applicants with uncorrected vision worse than 20/100 (Snellen) must wear contact lens while working; Must be able to distinguish basic colors (without the use of x-chrome lenses); Must be able to hear the conversational voice, with or without the use of hearing aid. Must be able to work any shift; and, Must be able to communicate in clear English during emergencies.