Crime Scene Resources, Inc
Location
Santa Fe, NM | United States
Job description
Duties
Qualification Requirements
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. A position may not include all of the duties listed and the listed examples are not an exhaustive list of the duties that may be found in a position of this class.
Essential Functions
- Under general supervision, can be expected to process crime scenes for purposes of identifying and collecting relevant evidence for use in criminal prosecution, utilizing one or all of the following techniques: digital photography, diagrams and sketches, fingerprint collection procedures, plaster casts, and assorted physical and/or chemical tests.
- Writes reports documenting relevant information and testifies in criminal proceedings.
- And other duties as may be required.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Attention to Detail – Ability to be thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
- Coaching – Provides others with clear direction, motivates, and empowers. Recruits staff of a high caliber and provides staff with development opportunities and coaching.
- Conflict Management – Manages and resolves conflicts, grievances, confrontations, or disagreements in a constructive manner to minimize negative personal impact.
- Customer Service – Ability to interact with customers in a friendly and professional manner, ability to work to resolve issues quickly and effectively, and is knowledgeable about products and services.
- Deciding and Initiating Action – Takes responsibility for actions, projects and people; makes quick, clear decisions which may include tough choices, after considering risks.
- Decision Making – Specifies goals and obstacles to achieving those goals, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses the best alternative in order to make a determination, draw conclusions, or solve a problem.
- Delivering Results – Ability to set high standards for quality, quantity, and timelines. Focuses on customer needs and satisfaction. Consistently achieves project goals.
- Interpersonal Skills – Ability to show understanding, respect, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, cooperation, concern, and politeness to others and relate well to different people from varied backgrounds and different situations.
- Learning – Uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills; uses training, feedback, or other opportunities for self-learning and development.
- Mathematical Reasoning – Solves practical problems by choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical and statistical techniques.
- Planning and Evaluating – Organizes work, sets priorities, determines resource requirements, determines short or long term goals and strategies to achieve them, coordinates with other organizations or parts of an organization, monitors progress, and evaluates outcomes.
- Reading – Understands and interprets written material, including technical material, rules, regulations, instructions, reports, charts, graphs, or tables; applies what is learned from written material to specific situations.
- Resilience – Deals effectively with pressure; remains optimistic and persistent, even under adversity. Recovers quickly from setbacks.
- Teaching Others – Helps others learn through formal or informal methods; provides resources to help teach others; acts as a mentor.
- Thinking Strategically – Thinks strategically and promotes best practices and leading-edge ideas.
- Writing – Writes in a clear, concise, and organized manner for the intended audience.
- Written Communication – Composes, reviews, edits, and issues written materials for diverse audiences and communicates purpose in a succinct and organized manner that is appropriate for context, time, and place.
Requirements
Education Requirement
- Associate degree in a recognized science, such as Chemistry, Biology, Physics or Criminology.
Experience Requirement
- Three (3) years of experience in crime scene processing, photography, digital photography, and latent fingerprints.
Education and Experience Equivalency
- One (1) year of the appropriate type and level of experience may be substituted for each required year of post-high school education. Additional appropriate education may be substituted for the minimum experience requirements.
Licensure and Certifications
- Must possess a valid driver's license.
Special Requirements
- Must be a U.S. citizen.
- Must be 18 years of age.
- Must successfully complete a polygraph examination and thorough background investigation.
- Must not have been convicted of a felony or other crime involving moral turpitude.
- Must be able to pass physical examination.
- Must be certified or become certified within two (2) years of hire in at least one nationally or internationally recognized crime scene investigator certification such as: International Association for Identification, American Board of Medical Legal Death Investigators, or International Association of Blood Spatter Pattern Analysts. (Certification must be attached to application.)
Physical Requirements
- Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 pounds.
- Physical exertion required under vigorous and unusual conditions.
- Must be able to bend, twist, walk, climb, crawl and kneel.
- Requires speaking or hearing and using hands to finger, handle or feel, requires sitting, standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling, reaching with hands and arms and lifting.
- Standard vision requirements.
- Vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly.
- Hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound.
- Work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, using of measuring devices, operating motor vehicles and observing general surroundings and activities.
Working Environment
- Work is performed inside and outdoors, sometimes under inclement weather conditions and in confined spaces.
- May be exposed to loud noises, gasses, fumes, chemicals, body fluids, acids and contaminated needles.
- Must be able to work irregular hours, nights, weekends, holidays, and on-call duty.
- Work occasionally requires exposure to environmental conditions.
- Some travel to off-site locations is required.
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Salary
$21.54 - $32.32 per hour
