NATURAL RESOURCES POLICE LIEUTENANT

This is an agency specific recruitment for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Natural Resources Police. This is a promotional recruitment and is open to current Natural Resources Police Sergeants only. The resulting eligible list will be used to fill vacancies within the Natural Resources Police throughout the State of Maryland. Applicants certified to this list will remain eligible for these positions for at least one year.

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To supervise, manage and administer an effective Area or Unit as designated by NRP policy and to perform other law enforcement duties as directed.

A Natural Resource Police Lieutenant is one of four managerial levels of law enforcement work in the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) enforcing State and federal laws and departmental rules and regulation as they apply to conservation, boating, DNR managed lands, criminal, civil and traffic violations. Employees in this classification directly supervise Natural Resources Police Sergeants and through them indirectly supervise lower-level natural resources police officers in an assigned unit/area.

*Candidates must follow JobAps application instructions. Credit cannot be given for education, training, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities that you fail to indicate. 

Education: High School diploma or G.E.D. certificate acceptable to the Maryland State Board of Education as described in the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commission regulation.

Experience: One year of supervisory experience as a commissioned natural resources law enforcement officer. The above education requirement is set by the Police and Correctional Training Commission in accordance with the Annotated Code of Maryland, Public Safety, Section 3-207. 2.Experience defined above must have been certified by the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commission.

*INTERNAL RECRUITMENT - CURRENT MDNR NRP LEO ONLY*

1.Employees in this classification must possess police officer certification as required by the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commission at the time of application.

2.Employees in this classification will be assigned duties which require the operation of a motor vehicle and will be required to possess a motor vehicle operator’s license valid in the State of Maryland.

1. Selection standards for police officer certification are established by the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commission in accordance with the Annotated Code of Maryland, Public Safety Article, Section 3-207. These selection criteria are listed in detail in the Code of Maryland Regulations 12.04.01.04 and include the following: U.S. Citizenship Must be at least 21 years of age A completed background investigation, including a check of criminal history Oral interview and truth verification device testing Physical and psychological examination following offer of employment.

2. Employees are subject to call-in 24 hours a day and, therefore, will be required to provide the employer with a phone number where they can be reached.

Applicants should be certain to update their application with all education and job-related experience to demonstrate their qualifications for this position. Make certain to include any applicable acting time necessary to achieve minimum qualifications. Those who do not demonstrate that they meet the minimum qualifications on their application will not be permitted to compete for this position. All information concerning your qualifications must be submitted by the closing date. We will not consider information submitted after this date. If you are scheduled to complete an educational or licensing requirement within six months of the closing date of this announcement, you may participate in the examination process. Permanent Maryland State employees may also complete necessary experience requirements within six months of the date of the closing date of this announcement. However, affected candidates will appear in pending status on the eligible list until documentation has been received to ensure educational and/or experience requirements have been met. You will be considered ONLY for vacancies in counties in which you express geographic interest on the application as follows: 1) If you indicate interest in one county within an NRP area (Areas 1-8), you will be considered for all available Field Operations positions within that area. Likewise, you will not be considered for Field Operations positions within an NRP area if you do not indicate interest in any counties in the Area. 2) If you are interested in a position in Support Services, Special Services, or Intelligence & Special Investigations Bureaus be sure to list the county in which the main office of the unit is located. Otherwise, you will not be considered for vacancies in those Bureaus.

The Written Exam will be held on April 27, 2024. You will receive an email from the Department withyour report time of the Multiple-Choice Exam. No make-up exams will be scheduled. The exam will be administered at the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commission facility located at 6852 4thSt., Sykesville, MD 21784. Candidates who successfully achieve a minimum score of 60% on the written exam will be notified of the date, time, location, and format of the oral board interviews. Interviews will be held during the period of June 3, 2024, through June 14, 2024. Resumes must be submitted electronically by May 3, 2024, to HRSRecruitment.DNR@maryland.gov.

STATE OF MARYLAND BENEFITS

The online application is strongly preferred. If you are unable to apply online, you may submit a paper application and supplemental questionnaire to: Department of Natural Resources, Human Resources, 580 Taylor Avenue, C-3 Annapolis, MD 21401. The Human Resources unit is not responsible for applications sent to any other address.