Description

The City of Fayetteville is currently recruiting for a Civilian Crash Investigator to perform a variety of duties pertaining to the investigation of minor motor vehicle collisions, including writing accident reports, controlling traffic flow, directing traffic and providing crowd control; to perform various administrative support duties.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Investigate traffic accidents; initiate proper assistance, including wreckers, ambulances, fire department personnel, and law enforcement.
• Assist disabled motorists and aid in the removal of abandoned vehicles that obstruct roadways.
• Provide traffic direction and control at traffic accident scenes, road closures, inoperative or damaged traffic control devices and other situations that necessitate manual traffic direction.
• Respond to dispatched assignments.
• Report the location and nature of crimes in progress to the communications center without becoming personally involved.
• Move and set up traffic cones, barricades and flares for distances of up to 100 feet to control crowds and traffic at hazard and/or collision scenes.
• Enter and retrieve data on a computer to locate information on wanted subjects and to check license plate or driver's license information.
• Maintain assigned vehicles, equipment and supplies, ensuring availability and proper working order.
• May testify as a witness in court.
• Perform various administrative support duties.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:

Experience:
Two years experience requiring recordkeeping, public contact, interpretation of rules and regulations and investigation, preferably for a law enforcement agency.

Training:
Equivalent to completion of the twelfth grade.

LICENSING & CERTIFICATIONS:

Required:
Possession of an appropriate valid driver's license and ability to maintain insurability. Eligible for Department of Criminal Investigations (DCI) certification.

Preferred:
CPR certification; First Responder certification.

Per North Carolina Administrative Code – "A conviction of a crime or unlawful act defined as a Class B misdemeanor renders an applicant or certified DCIN user ineligible to become certified as a DCIN user when such conviction is within 10 years of the application date of request for DCIN certification. A conviction of a felony or two or more Class B misdemeanors regardless of the date of conviction renders an applicant or certified DCIN user permanently ineligible to hold such certification."

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• This position is subject to pre-employment polygraph and/or CVSA testing.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.

From the time of closing, the selection process is anticipated to last approximately 4 - 6 weeks. The process will consist of a panel interview with the selected candidate being subject to a pre-employment drug screen, background investigation, driving history and polygraph and/or CVSA testing to be conducted by the Police Department.

The City of Fayetteville Employee Healthcare Benefit Plan provides comprehensive and affordable health and dental coverage while maintaining reasonable costs to employees. Coverage is available for all regular status employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week. Employees may also choose to cover eligible dependents. The premium is deducted on a pre-tax basis, with the City paying a portion of the premium. Qualifying employees are eligible for benefits on the 1st day of the month following 30 days of service.

Paid Vacation: Employees earn vacation leave beginning the first day of employment, however, they are not eligible to take leave for 6 months. Leave accruals are based upon the number of years of service and the number of hours an employee is scheduled to work.

Paid Holidays: The City of Fayetteville observes 11 paid holidays per calendar year. The approved holidays are New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran's Day, 2 days at Thanksgiving and 2 days at Christmas.

Sick / Funeral Leave: Regular employees earn sick leave in proportion to the number of hours they are scheduled to work per week. Sick leave accruals begin the first day of employment. Sick leave can also be taken for deaths in your extended family. Sick leave hours accumulate without limits and may be used toward credible service upon retirement from the NC Local Government Retirement System.

The City assists our employees in securing their financial future during retirement by participating in the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System, administered by the State of North Carolina. Regular status employees, scheduled to work 20 hours or more per week, become members in the retirement system upon employment. As a member of this system, employees are required to contribute 6 percent of their gross salary on a tax-deferred basis.

To further assist employees in saving for retirement, the City offers two supplemental retirement savings programs. These programs offer employees an opportunity to save a portion of their salary on a tax-deferred basis to supplement their retirement benefit. The programs offered are 401(k) Supplemental Retirement Income Plan and the ICMA 457 Plan.

Realizing that each employee may have different insurance needs, the City offers its employees the opportunity to supplement City-provided benefits by selecting from the benefits listed below. These benefits are offered at employee's expense through payroll deduction:

• Term Life Insurance (Pre-tax basis first $50,000 for employees)

• Dependent Term Life Insurance

• Critical Illness Insurance

• Universal Life Insurance
• Vision Insurance (Pre-tax basis)

• Disability Insurance

• Healthcare and Dependent Care Reimbursement Account (Pre-tax basis)

The first year an employee contributes to the retirement system, the city provides a death benefit of $3,000. After one year as a contributing member of the Retirement System, a death benefit is provided that is equal to the highest 12 months' salary in a row during the 24 months before death, no less than $25,000 and no more than $50,000. There is no cost to the employee for these benefits.

City employees are paid bi-weekly, every other Friday. As an added convenience and safety measure, the City requires all new employees to sign up for direct deposit of their payroll checks.

The EAP is available at no cost to all employees and their household members. The EAP provides confidential guidance on legal, financial and personal issues that could affect your health, relationships and job performance.