TDCJ - Sergeant of Correctional Officers - Region

About the role

This position performs entry-level correctional supervisory and instructional work that supports mobile, on-site correctional training delivered at units across the state.

Responsibilities

• Traveling to assigned facilities and instructing security and non-security trainees and employees in defensive tactics, searches, inmate supervision, emergency response, and chemical agent delivery systems.
• Supporting Correctional Professional Development Program phases at both unit and academy sites.
• Coordinating training logistics.
• Evaluating participant performance.
• Administering examinations.
• Ensuring participants meet agency training standards.
• Developing and revising lesson plans, instructional methods, and training aids.
• Observing program implementation at field sites.
• Maintaining training equipment and records.
• Certifying staff in required skills.
• Ensuring field staff receive consistent, hands‑on instruction that meets agency standards wherever training is needed statewide.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED
• 2+ years of correctional custody or law enforcement experience
• Willing and able to complete all required instructor certification courses within 6 months of hire

Qualifications / Skills

• Experience in curriculum development and providing instruction
• Training or teaching experience
• Correctional custody or law enforcement supervisory experience
• Certification as a defensive tactics, firearms, or chemical agents instructor (or group fitness/personal trainer/martial arts instructor)
• Working knowledge of adult education principles and instructional/curriculum design

Schedule

Travel 100% – Position may spend 16+ nights away per month.