CORRECTIONAL TACTICAL OFFICER 2 - 82487

Executive Service

CORRECTIONAL TACTICAL OFFICER 2

Department of Correction

OIC

Nashville, TN

Annual Salary: $69,012.00 - $82,716.00

Closing Date: 11/09/2026

Background Check:

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Who we are and what we do:

The Tennessee Department of Correction operates and oversees 14 adult prisons across the state, housing some 21,000 offenders. In the community, TDOC supervises 79,000 offenders on probation, parole, or community corrections. The department operates 44 probation/parole offices in 13 districts across the state.

Job Overview:

The Correctional Tactical Officer 2 is the working level class in the Correctional Tactical Officer sub-series. This position is assigned to the Special Operations Unit, the specialized tactical response division of the Department of Correction. This class differs from that of Correctional Tactical Officer 3 in that an incumbent of the latter acts as a minor supervisor.

Key Responsibilities:

• Represents Department of Correction in performing important and confidential duties that involve contact work with law enforcement, court appearances, community leaders, offenders, their families, victims, and the general public.
• Responds to emergency call-outs (24/7)
• Conducts high-risk transports, extraditions
• May lead prison search operations
• Assist with demonstration control (riots, civil protest)
• Provide dignitary protection and court security

Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduation from an accredited high school or an accredited GED
• At least 2 years of experience with offenders/detainees in the capacity of a police officer, correction, or probation/parole officer. Or applicable military experience that includes military policing, detainee assignments or at least 1 year in an active-duty status with an honorable discharge (DD-214).

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.