San Bruno Police Department
Join a Department that cares about its Officers and is LOVED by its community
Elevate your law enforcement career as a Police Lieutenant
Our mission at the San Bruno Police Department is to Ensure Peace, Provide Safety, and Build Community. We aim to realize this mission by taking good care of the people who work in our organization so that they can take good care of everyone else. We believe that the key to providing exceptional police services is consistently deploying strong, healthy, well-trained, emotionally intelligent human beings as San Bruno Police Officers. As such, we have created a healthy, happy, fun working environment, focused on enabling each member of our team to use their employment to pursue the best possible versions of themselves.
The City of San Bruno, Police Department is seeking a Police Lieutenant to serve as a manager of an assigned division or operation within the Police Department. Under the direction of a Police Captain or Chief of Police, the Lieutenant will be responsible for the direct supervision of sworn, non-sworn, supervisory, professional, technical, and administrative support staff. The Lieutenant will plan and coordinate activities of their assigned area and provide staff assistance to the Police Captain and the Chief of Police.
CITY OF SAN BRUNO’S EXCELLENT BENEFITS
- CalPERS retirement formula of 3% @ 50 for classic members or 2.7% @ 57 for new members
- Annual accruals of vacation days based on years of service, holidays, and sick days
- Opportunity for bilingual incentive pay up to 2.5%
- Annual uniform allowance
- Medical, dental and vision benefits provided with employee contribution
- Life Insurance equal to one year’s annual salary provided at no cost
- Long-term disability insurance provided at no cost
- Home loan assistance program
- Section 125 Flexible Benefit Plan
- Tuition reimbursement
Annual Salary $166,464 - $204,264 (not including incentive pay)
The ideal Police Lieutenant candidate will possess education, experience, training and perspective to help support the department’s direction and ensure its ongoing success. Minimum qualifications for the position include:
- Possess of, and ability to maintain a valid State of California POST Peace Officer Certification
- Four (4) years of progressively responsible experience as a Police Officer including eighteen (18) months supervisory law enforcement experience as a member of a city police department, a county sheriff’s department, a regional park district, a district authorized by statute to maintain a police department, or the California Highway Patrol; and must have successfully completed the required probationary period for the required supervisory position currently or most recently occupied.
- A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university is preferred; applicants currently enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program with an accredited college or university, who have completed the equivalent of at least ninety (90) semester units and commit to obtaining a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university within twelve (12) months of appointment, may also apply.
- Possession of, or eligible to receive, Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Intermediate, and eligible to receive Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Supervisory Certificate(s) within six (6) months of appointment.
- Possession of, and ability to maintain, a valid California driver’s license.
In addition, qualified candidates will have a successful track record of the following:
- Servant leadership.
- Effective personnel management that reflects a deep understanding of the human nature of this endeavor.
- Ability to manage and direct daily activities to support broader organizational objectives, vision, and mission.
- Technical and professional knowledge in functional areas of policing at a level that inspires confidence and trust from line-level personnel.
- A thorough and contemporaneous understanding of policies, procedures, laws, and legislation.
- Identifying and understanding problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information.
- Choosing appropriate courses of action to address identified problems in such a way that accounts for the complex impacts of such decisions.
- Self-awareness and personal accountability.
- Identifying and leveraging opportunities to accelerate results and build capability by assigning tasks and decision-making responsibilities to individuals or teams with clear boundaries, expectations, support, and follow-up.
- Effectively managing one’s time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently.
- Working cooperatively with others to help a team or work group achieve its goals.
- Clearly and succinctly conveying information and ideas to individuals and groups; communicating in a focused and compelling way that captures and holds others’ attention.
This recruitment is being conducted to establish an eligibility list for Police Lieutenant. For a full, detailed class specification, click HERE.
The selection process may include the following:
- Oral Panel
- Practical Exercise
- Written Exercise
Application Filing Deadline 11:59 PM on Sunday, July 28, 2024
How to Apply
Applications may be submitted online at governmentjobs.com/sanbruno. The City of San Bruno utilizes a merit-based selection system. Such a system is competitive and based on broad outreach efforts and equal opportunity for qualified applicants to take part in a process designed to determine the qualifications, fitness and ability of competitors to perform duties of the vacant position.
What happens next?
- We will review your application and all supplemental materials to select the best qualified applicants to continue in the process. Screening will include a review of minimum qualifications, application appraisal rating of education, training and experience and relevance of background qualifications related to the target job as well as supplemental questions if applicable.
- Applicants selected to move forward in the process may be asked to participate in any combination of the following (at any phase of the selection process): a written examination, job related exercise, physical test or job simulation, phone interview, in-person or video interview(s), and/or web-based testing.
- The final phase of the selection process is the probationary period, which in most cases is one year, depending on your classification.
Reasonable Accommodations:
The City of San Bruno is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and provides equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws in its employment actions, decisions, policies and practices.
The City of San Bruno Human Resources Department will make reasonable efforts in the selection process to accommodate disabled applicants. Individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation in the process must inform the Human Resources Department by the final filing date by emailing hr@sanbruno.ca.gov.
Recruitment Contact
Contact phone:
(650) 616-7055
Contact email:
hr@sanbruno.ca.gov