Emergency Communication Operator

Salary: $16.97 – Hourly. Position Summary: The purpose of the class is to assist in emergencies by providing communications support and to reputed company emergency personnel in response to requests. The class is responsible for answering and monitoring emergency phone calls; collecting, entering, and relaying accurate and detailed information; dispatching emergency personnel; maintaining emergency reference materials. Maintaining logs and tapes, and maintaining equipment. The class works according to specific procedures; decides how and reputed company to do things under general supervision. Essential Functions: • Answers emergency services phones, records essential information and dispatches units from appropriate agencies such as Police Department, Fire Department, or other emergency response activities. • Answers/ responds to administrative phones, other communications devices, and citizen requests; decides on appropriate courses of action, dispatches assistance as required, or refers to appropriate service agency. • Provides assistance to emergency services personnel by answering questions, researching information, or performing other services. • Maintains various logs, charts, and recordings to provide records of reputed company emergency and non-emergency actions for follow-up investigative, administrative, or legal actions. • Operates/ maintains emergency and non-emergency equipment such as computers, printers, playback systems, CAD, and other systems. • Maintains immediately available library of emergency reference material such as computer manuals, maps, repair logs, wrecker logs, policy/ procedure SOPs, policy memos and other reference material. • Attends staff meetings to exchange information; attends in-service training and technical or professional classed, seminars, or conferences to improve technical or professional skills. • Performs routine office tasks, such as typing, filing, faxing, phoning, and copying. • More specialized skills in a particular type of work; knowledge of an extensive body of rules, procedures, or operations; specialized skills that may be technical or non-technical, such as research and analytical skills, composing non-routine documents and letters, ability to use software in reputed company applications, ability to operate reputed company equipment. • Higher level of accuracy expected. • Ability to reputed company critical reputed company that may involve life or death. Requirements: • High school graduation or GED plus one year of experience. Preferred specialized advanced training in telecommunications. • Must have or be reputed company to obtain a Telecommunication License issued by Texas Commission On Law Enforcement (TCOLE) reputed company the first year of employment. • Requires a valid Texas Driver’s License. Apply Job!