Law Enforcement - Communications Officer

The Puyallup Tribe of Indians is committed to protecting and exercising the inherent inalienable sovereign rights of the Tribe and Individuals in the interest of the Medicine Creek Treat Territories, as stewards to ensure preservation of our cultural and environmental integrity for common good and prosperity for all.


Open: May 7, 2025 Close: May 21, 2025
Job Title: Communications Officer Department: Law Enforcement
Reports To: Communications Supervisor Hours: 40 Hours/WK - FT
Salary: $26.06 + Benefits Requisition: 569

(Must be Willing to Work Any Shift, Including Nights & Weekends)
*The Puyallup Tribe of Indians provides a generous benefits package that includes employer paid medical, dental, vision, life insurance, a retirement/401(k) plan with profit sharing, paid holidays, and paid time off including birthday leave.
Position Summary:
The Communications Officer works out of a call center, answering phone calls from citizens in need of assistance from police. Communication Officers are trained to gather information from the caller, remain calm, and then send the appropriate type of assistance and volume of units, to the caller's location, based on the information from the caller.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Continually monitors and records the location of on-duty police officers.
2. Accurately and promptly takes emergency and non-emergency calls for service and dispatches patrol officers to calls for service.
3. Performs driver license and wanted person queries and relays information timely using internal protocols.
4. Assigns case numbers and records case notes following internal procedures.
5. Uses computers and computer-aided dispatch following internal procedures.
6. Continually monitors police radio traffic.
7. Operates police radios using established procedures.
8. Provides assistance to officers by contacting other services as needed.
9. Perform other duties assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
• This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Qualifications and Requirements:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:
• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Strong communication skills and knowledge of computer use is required.
• Must be able to accurately type 35 WPM.
• Must be able to multitask and deal with various personality types.
• Must be able to deal with stressful situations and remain in control in order to provide service to the public and patrol officers.
Language Skills:
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before the public or employees of organization.
Mathematical Skills:
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Reasoning Ability:
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Licenses or Certificates/Other:
• Employee will be subject to a one-year probationary period after successful completion of a Dispatch Communications course.
• Employee may be subject to random drug screens and other tests prior to and during the course of employment.
• Must acceptably pass criminal background check prior to and periodically throughout employment.
• Must have no felonies.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. Requires the ability to read, write, communicate, and interpret information accurately in English.
2. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to talk and hear and use hands to finger, handle or feel.
3. The employee occasionally is required to sit; stand; walk; push and/or pull; kneel, stoop, crouch or crawl; reach with hands and arms.
4. The employee must regularly lift and/or move u