About this role
<div style="text-align: justify;"><p>The City of Palm Bay is actively recruiting Communications Officers and Communications Officer Trainees.</p><p><strong>Please Note: The starting salary for a Communications Officer Trainee is $39,007. Once Public Service Telecommunicator (PST) certification is received, the employee will receive a promotional increase of 5% or the minimum of the paygrade ($47,413), whichever is greater at the time of promotion. </strong></p><strong>Newly hired (entry level) employees of the Communication Center may be eligible for a lump sum signing payment at the Chief’s discretion based upon the following schedule:<br></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>a. Newly hired (entry level) Communication Officer Trainees, with PST certification not yet achieved may receive a one-time signing bonus of $2,500. Payment of the bonus will be as follows: 25% at hire, 25% at 6 months, and the remaining 50% of the bonus paid upon completion of probation. If the employee resigns during the first three (3) years of employment, the employee is required to reimburse the City for the full amount of the sign-on bo
Requirements
<p style="margin-right: 6.0pt;text-align: justify;">Under general supervision, trains in performing specialized public safety communications and radio work for the City Police<span style="color: windowtext;"> Department</span>. Work involves training in receiving incoming emergency and non-emergency calls for service and taking appropriate action including the dispatching of police personnel and operating a computer terminal connected to the Florida Crime Information Center, National Crime Information Center, the National Weather Service and a variety of local, regional and/or state emergency response databases. Work also includes training in transferring fire and<span style="color: windowtext;"> </span>medical calls to Brevard County Fire/Rescue and monitoring for police respons
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