Job opening: Supervisory Investigator (LEO)
Salary: $121 485 - 186 629 per year
Published at: Feb 28 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is that of Supervisory Criminal Investigator Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) located in a field activity of the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Labor Management Standards (OLMS). The primary duty of this position is to serve as a first-level supervisory investigator.
This position is outside the bargaining unit.
Duties
This position may be filled at the GS-13 or GS-14 grade level.
The duties described below are at the full performance level; GS-14. If selected at the GS-13 grade level, the incumbent will serve in a developmental capacity, wherein the incumbent works under closer supervision while continuing to exercise supervisory and managerial authority assigned for the position. Individual assignments will typically be designed to introduce the incumbent to the full range of duties and responsibilities and will include ongoing training and instruction designed to develop in-depth knowledge and the supervisory competencies required at the full performance level. At the GS-14 grade level, some of your typical work assignments may include:
Participating in the formulation of OLMS enforcement policies and strategies, so as to establish and, on a sustained basis, implement such in a district office jurisdiction.
Participating in developing district office plans for OLMS program operations within an assigned geographic jurisdiction.
Participating in the implementation of OLMS program operations within an assigned geographic jurisdiction.
Performing personnel and management functions.
Conducting agency liaison within an assigned geographic jurisdiction.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: The work often involves prolonged hours of interviews or records, reviews in hazardous, hostile environments. Many records are obtained from reluctant sources via administrative or grand jury subpoena. The work may involve considerable exertion to obtain, transport, and ultimately review records. The work requires interviews of witnesses or targets in remote work sites at irregular, unpredictable or unscheduled hours. Complex investigations are multi-tiered, requiring concentration and endurance. Documents are often difficult to obtain, and financial records may have to be completely reconstructed to assess both the subject's guilt and the union's loss. The work may involve interviewing contacts or developing leads in uncomfortable, often hostile environments oftentimes outside normal working hours. The position may also require working for prolonged periods of time without adequate rest.
Conducting investigations requires frequent travel to various geographic sites with or without other investigators. Investigations may require locating witnesses and records, and then conducting extensive, prolonged interviews at irregular hours to satisfy stress provoking time constraints. Travel is sometimes necessary in severe weather on remote roads, in hazardous areas or under hazardous conditions, for up to three weeks at a time. Some casework may have to be done over protracted shift periods and at irregular hours. Interviews may be conducted in arduous circumstances with reluctant witnesses, sometimes exposing the investigator to personal risk. Prosecution support work frequently requires unusually long workdays and long periods away from the assigned duty station.
Considerable endurance is often required to review voluminous records, and physical strength is required for lifting and transporting them. Investigators must often lift heavy boxes or equipment, categorize, store, and secure evidence, all independent of outside help.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: Initial assignments are typically performed in office settings, but usually require extensive additional on-site investigative work. This on-site work often occurs during evening or other irregular hours, in work environments of union officials or other persons, unsafe, crime ridden areas, factories, on construction sites, or at depots. Investigative activities bring the investigator into direct contact with individuals facing potential criminal charges, loss of their freedom and livelihood, known to commit, attempt, or threaten to commit violence against union members, who own weapons, or are alleged to have ties to organized crime. These contacts also expose the investigator to highly contested, hostile, internal union political and power struggles. These and other situations described above may place the investigator in physical jeopardy.
SPECIAL DEPUTATION: When deputized OLMS criminal investigators are required to perform the following duties:
Firearms - All investigators are required to qualify to use USDOL-owned firearms and to accept assignments where firearms may be necessary. Quarterly firearm qualification is also required in the event that use of a firearm is necessary so that the investigator is able to respond quickly and appropriately.
Arrest Powers - Investigators may make arrests, with or without a warrant.
Execute Search Warrants - Investigators obtain and execute warrants authorizing search of premises and seizure of evidence.
Undercover Assignments - In rare instances, investigators assume undercover roles or obtain information by pretext.
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. Citizen.
- Must be at least 21 years old.
- Candidate required to obtain the necessary security/investigation level.
- Requires a probationary period if the requirement has not been met.
- Requires medical exam and must maintain physical requirements.
- Requires a supervisory probationary period if the requirement has not been met.
- Requires a valid driver's license.
- Age Restriction: This is a secondary LEO position covered by the special retirement provisions for law enforcement officers. Incumbents are first line supervisors of LEO investigators who must have completed work in primary LEO position
- Age Restriction Cont'd: And transferred to this secondary position directly from the primary position Incumbents must retire at age 57.
- Medical Requirements: Because the position is a law enforcement position, investigators are required to meet OLMS medical standards for criminal investigators.
- Medical Requirements Cont'd: Compliance with this requirement involves passing initial and periodic physical examinations.
- Basic Law Enforcement (LE) Training - Investigators must successfully complete the basic criminal investigator training course at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), unless waived by OLMS because of proof of comparable LE training.
- Drug Testing: All investigators are subject to initial and ongoing random drug testing, as well as a comprehensive background investigation.
- Incumbent is required to be on-call and available as necessary.
- Occasional travel is required to promote knowledge of criminal and civil investigations of violations of the LMRDA and related statues, and take appropriate enforcement action.
- Permanent Change of Station (PCS) may be authorized.
Qualifications
***There are specific Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) and Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) requirements for this announcement. If you do not meet the IOR and LEO requirements, the vacancy is also open as a Supervisory Labor Investigator, GS-1801-13/14, under announcement number MS-24-DAL-OLMS-12316176-JG, and does not have the IOR and LEO requirements. **
You must meet the Basic Requirements and the Specialized Experience to qualify for Supervisory Investigator (LEO) position, as described below.
BASIC REQUIREMENTS: All applicants must meet the following basic requirements.
Medical Requirements: The duties of positions in this series require moderate to arduous physical exertion involving walking and standing, use of firearms, and exposure to inclement weather. Manual dexterity with comparatively free motion of finger, wrist, elbow, shoulder, hip, and knee joints is required. Arms, hands, legs, and feet must be sufficiently intact and functioning in order that applicants may perform the duties satisfactorily. Sufficiently good vision in each eye, with or without correction, is required to perform the duties satisfactorily. Near vision, corrective lenses permitted, must be sufficient to read printed material the size of typewritten characters. Hearing loss, as measured by an audiometer, must not exceed 35 decibels at 1000, 2000, and 3000 Hz levels. Since the duties of these positions are exacting and responsible, and involve activities under trying conditions, applicants must possess emotional and mental stability. Any physical condition that would cause the applicant to be a hazard to himself/herself, or others is disqualifying.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: In addition to the Basic Requirement listed above, all applicants must possess the following specialized experience to be considered minimally qualified.
For the GS-13: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level at the GS-12 level in the Federal Service.
Specialized Experience is the experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform the duties of the position successfully, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.
Specialized experience for this position is experience serving as a Labor or Criminal Investigator applying the provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) and other laws administered and enforced by OLMS, and of other related criminal and civil statutes.
One full year of specialized experience at or equivalent to at least the next lower level, GS-12 in the Federal service performing duties which include: 1). Applying a wide variety of investigative, auditing, and law enforcement techniques in order to resolve specific high profile or complex civil cases dealing with union related activities and violations; 2). Planning, and directing others in civil and criminal investigations; 3). Applying investigative auditing techniques of labor organizations to uncover and remedy criminal and civil violations of the LMRDA; and 4). Leading or utilizing your expertise to guide others in completing civil and criminal enforcement activities.
For the GS-14: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level at the GS-13 level in the Federal Service.
Specialized Experience is the experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform the duties of the position successfully, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.
Specialized experience for this position is experience serving as a Labor or Criminal Investigator applying the provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) and other laws administered and enforced by OLMS, and of other related criminal and civil statutes.
One full year of specialized experience at or equivalent to at least the next lower level, GS-13 in the Federal service performing duties which include: 1). Expertise in applying a wide variety of investigative, auditing, and law enforcement techniques in order to resolve specific high profile or complex civil cases dealing with union related activities and violations; 2). Leading, planning, and directing others in civil and criminal investigations; 3). Applying investigative auditing techniques of labor organizations to uncover and remedy criminal and civil violations of the LMRDA; and 4). Serving as a subject matter expert, or lead, utilizing your expertise to guide others in completing civil and criminal enforcement activities.
Education
Applicants may not qualify for this position based on education in lieu of specialized experience at the GS-13 and GS-14 grade levels.
Contacts
- Address Office of Labor-Management Standards
200 Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20210
US
- Name: Jacqueline Green
- Phone: 202-693-7677
- Email: [email protected]
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