Excellent Benefits
The City provides a comprehensive benefits package that is largely employer paid including Medical/Dental/Vision, FSA/HSA, WA State PERS, Life/AD&D and generous paid Vacation, Holiday and Sick Leave Programs. The City also offers optional 457 and ROTH (up to 2% City match), LTD and Supplemental Life plan participation.
Essential Job Functions
- Performs a variety of basic police department records tasks including front counter customer assistance, cashiering and data processing. Responds to inquiries and requests in a timely manner.
- Answers telephone calls in a professional and tactful manner. Assists customers when possible or routes callers to appropriate staff or outside agency.
- Provides excellent internal and external customer service in support of Police Department business. Maintains positive relations with the public and coworkers.
- Receipts payments accepted at the Police Department, including payments for parking citations, infractions, red light camera citations, concealed pistol license fees, miscellaneous receipts and departmental transmittals.
- Performs data entry in multiple software programs for law enforcement record keeping and reporting.
- Communicates law enforcement information effectively in verbal and in written form such as: infraction or parking ticket information, concealed pistol license applications, hearing requests and area resource assistance.
- Prepares, compiles and disseminates a variety of reports and statistical data including documentation to insurance companies and police reports to the public.
- Performs fingerprinting services.
- Maintains and monitors teletype (TTY) communications and distributes to appropriate staff.
- Retrieves and processes daily mail and distributes appropriately within the department.
- Delivering daily deposits to the bank. Transmits information to the Finance Department.
- Conducts electronic searches or entries in the ACCESS system and local computers, including pawn sheets and criminal history information.
- Adheres to regulatory requirements and department policies and procedures.
- Organizes and maintains accurate databases, files, records and other documents.
- Maintains current desk procedures and tasks to explain position responsibilities.
Qualification Requirements
- Must pass Civil Service testing, including an extensive police background investigation and polygraph.
- High school diploma or GED.
- One (1) year of full-time equivalent office clerical experience involving regular public interaction. Law enforcement agency support experience in criminal justice or other related function preferred.
- Bilingual, English and Spanish, language abilities desired.
- Must possess a current WA Driver License and meet abstract criteria set by the insurance provider.
- Must obtain the WA State Patrol ACCESS (A Central Computerized Enforcement Service System) II certification within six (6) months of hire and maintain throughout employment.
City of Wenatchee Government
The City of Wenatchee is a full-service City employing 190 employees. In addition to Police Department other services provided include Public Works, Community Development, Executive Services, Finance, Information Systems and Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services. The City operates under a Strong Mayor form of government with seven council members serving at large. Active boards and commissions advise the City Council with governance.
The Community
The City of Wenatchee is home to 33,921 people with approximately 70,000 living in the greater Wenatchee urban area. Located in a beautiful valley at the confluence of the Wenatchee and Columbia Rivers and on the east slopes of the Cascade Mountain Range, the city enjoys wonderful abundant sunshine with four distinct seasons. The average rainfall is a mere 10 inches per year making the region a focal point of Washington State for outdoor recreation. Wenatchee is the largest city in rural North Central Washington and thus provides a small-town atmosphere with big city amenities striking a great balance between rural and urban qualities of life. Furthermore, the city is only 30-minutes from the renowned resort towns of Leavenworth and Lake Chelan. For those desiring occasional amenities of major metropolitan areas, Seattle is a short scenic 3-hour drive or 30-minute flight away making Wenatchee very attractive to many people and families relocating from the Puget Sound area.
Find out more about the City at https://www.wenatcheewa.gov. Some of the tourism highlights of the region can be viewed at https://www.visitchelancounty.com/ and http://wenatchee.org/. Our historic downtown is a nationally recognized Main Street with an active downtown association https://wendowntown.org/.
Must See
“We are Wenatchee Part I" https://vimeo.com/88411706
“We are Wenatchee Part II” https://vimeo.com/121429638
“We are Wenatchee Part III” https://vimeo.com/208608170
How to Apply
Please visit the City of Wenatchee website to view the employment opportunity, job description and complete an online application:
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/wenatcheewa/jobs/4265189/utility-worker-water?pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs.
Closing Date: 5:00 P.M., Monday, September 30, 2024.