Salary: $157,223.00 Annually
Location : Mason County - Shelton, WA
Job Type: Exempt
Job Number:
Department: Dept. of Corrections
Division: Prisons - AHCC
Opening Date: 09/03/2026
Closing Date: 9/13/2026 11:59 PM Pacific

Description
Superintendent A | WCC

Exempt Band 4

Location: Washington Corrections Center | Shelton, WA

Salary: $157,223 Annually
Leadership in corrections is more than managing a facility-it is shaping a culture of positive change. If you are a strategic, mission-driven executive ready to lead at the highest level, the Superintendent A at Washington Corrections Center offers the chance to make a meaningful impact on public safety and institutional excellence.
The Superintendent serves as the executive administrator and appointing authority for facility houses and manages adult incarcerated individuals across the full spectrum of custody levels. In this role, the Superintendent provides comprehensive leadership, long-term planning, and strategic direction for all aspects of institutional operations, ensuring alignment with the agency's mission to improve public safety.
The Superintendent is responsible for the full scope of facility management, including fiscal oversight, classification processes, plant maintenance, safety and sanitation standards, educational and vocational programming, work programs, and all security and custody operations. This executive leader ensures operational excellence while fostering an environment that supports rehabilitation, accountability, and professional standards.
Strong collaboration across divisions will ensure success while operating within the facility, including with Health Services, Administrative Operations, Reentry, Classification and Transportation, Community Corrections, and Correctional Industries. By working in partnership with these stakeholders, the Superintendent ensures seamless integration of services and programs that support both institutional stability and successful reentry outcomes.
This is a rare opportunity to lead a complex organization where decisions have lasting impact. If you are prepared to guide a correctional facility with integrity, vision, and decisive leadership, we invite you to bring your expertise to a role that advances safety, strengthens operations, and supports meaningful change.
A completed application packet will include:

• A cover letter regarding your interest in this position with our agency
• A detailed resume
• Three professional references

Duties
We are looking for teammates who share our vision of public service and are committed to an equitable and inclusive culture that fosters and inspires excellence, while promoting innovation, engagement, and safety, leading to better outcomes for our incarcerated population, our agency, and our community.

As a Superintendent A, some of your duties will include:

• Planning, leading, organizing and controlling the work performed by the organization
• Administering, monitoring, and oversight of operations, security, safety and emergency response activities in a correctional facility
• Supporting effective communications throughout the organization
• Maintaining the highest standards of personal/professional and ethical conduct and supporting the state's goals for a diverse workplace
• Providing a working environment free from discrimination and harassment and promotes diversity
• Developing operational goals and working objectives and ensuring those objectives are reached
• Strengthening public confidence in the integrity of facility staff by demonstrating and setting the tone for the highest standards of personal and professional integrity, fairness, honesty, and compliance with both the spirit and the letter of the law
• Promoting an environment of public trust free from fraud, abuse of authority, and misuse of public property
• Respecting and protecting privileged information accessible through the course of official duties
• Ensuring that no incarcerated individual or group of incarcerated is given control or authority over other incarcerated individuals with the exception of activities sanctioned within the context of a Therapeutic Community
• Developing and directing implementation plans to respond to sudden shifts in custody and security requirements that require significant changes in policies, procedures, and staff training
• Monitoring application of federal and state laws, administration of rules, regulations and orders of other agencies with jurisdiction
• Ensuring policies and procedures comply with the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)
• Developing an Emergency Response Plan and staff training/drills to ensure institutional readiness to respond to a wide variety of emergencies
• Facilitating and encouraging public information and education activities by conducting tours, speaking to community groups, and by providing written information concerning WCC operations
• Encouraging community agencies that the facility has contact with to participate in policy development
• Serving in the capacity, and making decisions for incidents that occur at the facility level, on a rotational basis
• Determining how, in an emergency, incident, or significant event, the facility's operations are managed
• Authorizing activities and providing direction for all facility operations, while also keeping Headquarters apprised of the situation, and requesting assistance as needed
• Opening and assuming and assuming command of the Incident Command Post (ICP) in the event of a major emergency or disaster
• Serving as an Incident Commander during emergencies, with responsibilities to manage the facilities response and recovery from critical incidents and significant events
• Determining allocation of resources and personnel, management of the incident based on emergency protocols, and coordination activities with the facilities/offices and other federal, state, and local agencies while communicating through the Headquarters Duty Officer and the Emergency Operations Center (EOC)

Qualifications
What we need (required qualifications):

• A proven leader, motivator, mentor and change agent, who possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must adhere and enforce Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Respect (EDIR) principles, with the ability to supervise and manage a wide range of personalities and positions
• Experienced, innovative correctional manager with five years or more of broad-based, progressive managerial or administrative experience in a multi-level custody, adult corrections environment. Elements of this experience should include a minimum of three (3) years in an executive leadership role
• Budget administration and development experience
• Effective project management skills
• Possess a working knowledge of total quality principles
• Communication skills and leadership competencies, including mediating, negotiating, and resolving conflict
• Demonstration and exemplification of the qualities the department seeks in all of its employees; those who are honest, have a strong work ethic, are dependable, achieve results through teamwork, and convey dignity and respect

Supplemental Information
Vision: Working together for safer communities.

Mission: Improving public safety by positively changing lives.

Our Commitment: To operate a safe and humane corrections system and partner with others to transform lives for a better Washington.

Our Core Values:

• Cultivate an environment of integrity and trust: Corrections values partnership and trust. We foster openness and support courageous conversations. We are committed to doing what we say we are going to do by being accountable and taking personal ownership in our actions.
• Respectful and inclusive interactions: Corrections appreciates and values individuals by promoting an inclusive and diverse environment, which encourages safety. We respect, value, and listen to the thoughts, feelings, and perspectives of our stakeholders and consider the impact on those we serve as well as each other.
• People's safety: Corrections believes in creating an environment that values physical, mental, and emotional security and well-being. We honor those who advance safety for all.
• Positivity in words and actions: At Corrections, we assume positive intentions and believe there is a shared desire for the best outcome. We consistently demonstrate positive behavior and always put forth our best effort.
• Supporting people's success: Corrections is committed to our community - understanding individuals, instilling hope, embracing change, and providing opportunities.

Telework Details

This position may be allocated for telework. If authorized for the role, work may be performed from your home or another offsite location within the state of Washington using a reliable internet or cellular hotspot service at that time. Employees are expected to perform assigned duties in a safe manner, to take proper care all state-issued equipment, and maintain confidentiality of all information in possession while working offsite. Employees will be required to commute to a Department of Corrections facility or field office as business requires, to potentially include components of the onboarding process. Some offices will have a "drop in" area available, however, a dedicated workspace within a DOC facility will not be provided.
What We Offer:

As an employee of the Department of Corrections, your work-life integration is a priority. Washington State employees are offered one of the most inclusive and competitive benefits packages in the nation. Besides comprehensive family insurance for medical, dental, and vision, these perks also may include:

• Remote/telework/flexible schedules (depending on position)
• Up to 25 paid vacation days a year
• 8 hours of paid sick leave per month
• 12 paid holidays a year
• Generous retirement plan
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Dependent Care Assistance
• Deferred Compensation and so much more!

*Teamsters 117 represented positions receive 3 days of bereavement leave.
PERS: State Employees are members of the Washington Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS). New employees have the option of two employer contributed retirement programs. For additional information, check out the ' web site.
For questions about this recruitment, or to request reasonable accommodation in the application process, please email [email protected] or call us at 509-630-9160. For TTY service, please call the Washington Relay Service at 7-1-1 or 1-800-833-6388.
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