8-5601
SUFFOLK COUNTY
PARK RANGER I
CIVIL SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES
http://www.suffolkcountyny.gov/Departments/Civil-Service
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LAST FILING DATE: MAY 15, 2024
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WRITTEN TEST DATE: JUNE 29, 2024
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USUAL ANNUAL
SALARY $48,074 - $57,907
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SALARIES VARY BY
JURISDICTION
SPECIFICATION # 5601
All statements made on the application may be verified and the backgrounds of successful candidates
are subject to investigation by the appointing authority.
APPLICATION PROCESSING FEE and FEE WAIVER
The application
processing fee is $125. Application may be made
via the internet at www.suffolkcountyny.gov/Departments/Civil-Service. Payment must be made
by VISA or MasterCard credit card and there will be an additional convenience
fee of $1.95. An acknowledgement of
receipt of application will be sent to all internet
applicants via e-mail. A separate application and processing fee are required
for each examination (identified by examination number) for which you are
applying. The application
processing fee is non-refundable and non-transferable.
The application
processing fee may be waived for Suffolk County residents who are veterans,
active duty military, members of the reserves or National Guard, auxiliary
police, firefighters, members in good standing of a local fire district or
ambulance company, members of a Volunteer Fire Department or Volunteer
Emergency Medical Services Agency Explorers programs, volunteer CERT members
and members of the Suffolk County Police Explorers program. The fee may also be waived if you are unemployed and primarily
responsible for the support of a household and for recipients of Medicaid, SSI,
Public Assistance or those in a training program under the Job Training
Partnership Act/Workforce Investment Act administered by a state or local
social service agency. Applicants should complete the “Request for Application
Fee Waiver and Certification” form online. All claims for application fee
waiver are subject to verification.
VACANCIES
The eligible list for this title will be used to fill future vacancies in non-county
jurisdictions under the jurisdiction of the Suffolk County Department of Civil
Service.
DUTIES
The work involves patrolling and
protecting the grounds of parks and related facilities. Under supervision, an employee in this class
is responsible for guarding and protecting parks by standing watch at a fixed
post or patrolling in a vehicle.
Principal responsibility is to guard against destruction and to keep
general public order. Routine
assignments and special orders are received from
supervisors. All work methods and
results are reviewed through periodic reports,
inspections and consultations. Performs
related work as required.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Graduation from a standard senior high
school or possession of a high school equivalency diploma.
Special Age Requirement: Candidates must be at least 19 years and 6
months old on or before the date of the written test. Pursuant to Section 54 of the Civil Service
Law, applicants who are within 6 months of the minimum age will
be permitted into the competition.
Therefore, candidates who will be 19 years of age by the written test
date may take this examination.
Eligibility for appointment as a Park Ranger I begins when the candidate
reaches age 20.
License Requirement: Candidates will be required to possess a New
York State Motor Vehicle Operator’s License at the time of appointment.
Residence Requirement: There are no residence requirements to
compete in this examination. However,
towns usually give preference to hiring their own residents. To be deemed a
resident of a town, an applicant must have been a legal resident of that town
at the time of certification for appointment and for at least 90 days prior
thereto.
Citizenship Requirement: Candidates must be United States citizens at
the time of appointment.
Peace Officer Training Certificate: After appointment, employees will be required
to obtain a Peace Officer Training Certificate recognized by the New York State
Municipal Police Training Council.
SCOPE OF THE EXAMINATION
The examination for this positon will
consist of four parts:
I. The
written test will cover knowledge, skills, and/or abilities in such
areas as:
1.
Understanding
and interpreting written material;
2.
Understanding
and applying laws, rules, and procedures in law enforcement;
3.
Preparing
written material and reports.
Those candidates who receive passing
graded on the written test will be called for the qualifying medical/physical
and personality/psychological evaluation and the physical agility screening
test as the needs of the service require.
II. Medical/Physical Evaluation (See page
3): Candidates will be required to meet
the medical/physical standards for Park Ranger I as prescribed by Suffolk
County. Candidates who successfully meet
the standards may be required to be re-evaluated at
intervals prescribed by the Suffolk County Office of Employee Health Services.
III. Personality/Psychological
Evaluation
IV. Physical
Fitness Screening Test (See page 4)
Notes: Candidates must pass all portions of this
examination to be eligible for appointment.
Rank on the eligible list will be determined by
written test scores only, plus veterans’ credits if applicable. Failure or failure to appear as scheduled for
any of these tests or evaluations will result in the elimination of a
candidate’s application from further consideration for purposes of this
competition.
NOTES
1.
Should
it become necessary to amend any part of this announcement, the Department of
Civil Service reserves the right to make such amendment on the Department’s web
page without notification to applicants.
The most current copy of this announcement is available during the
filing period at www.suffolkcountyny.gov/Departments/Civil-Service.
2.
Candidates
who apply for this examination and who have not heard from the Suffolk County
Department of Civil Service by June 26, 2024 are advised to contact the
Department before the written test date at (631) 853-5500.
LOCAL
DATE
PREPARED: March 19, 2024
DATE
AMENDED: April 19, 2024
GENERAL CONDITIONS OPEN-COMPETITIVE
ANNOUNCEMENT
1.
Application
may be made using the Suffolk County Application for
Employment (Forms CS-205A and CS-205B).
2.
Applicants
may complete a “Request for Application Fee Waiver and Certification” form and
submit it with Forms CS-205A and CS-205B.
3.
Unless
otherwise stated, candidates must meet the minimum qualifications by the date
of the written test, or last filing date in the case of training and experience
evaluations. Unless otherwise stated
part-time experience will be pro-rated.
4.
Candidates
found ineligible to compete in the written examination may appeal to the
Department of Civil Service for reconsideration prior to the written test date
appearing on this announcement. Appeals
received on or after the announced written test date
will not be considered.
5.
Candidates
who fail the examination, or who fail to appear for the examination as
scheduled, will be eliminated from further
consideration for purposes of this competition.
Unless otherwise specified, the final rank order of the eligible list
will be determined on the basis of the score received
on the written test, plus veterans’ credits where appropriate.
6.
Eligible
applicants will be notified when and where to appear for examination. If an application is rejected, due notice
will be sent.
7.
Unless
specifically prohibited by the examination instructions, candidates are permitted to use quiet, hand-held, solar or battery-powered
calculators. Devices with typewriter
keyboards, spell-checker, personal digital assistant, address books, language
translators, dictionaries and any similar devices are
prohibited.
8.
When
the examination is prepared and rated by the Suffolk County
Department of Civil Service, the provisions of the Suffolk County Civil
Service Rules dealing with the rating of examination will apply.
9.
When
the written examination is prepared and rated by the New York State Department
of Civil Service in accordance with Section 23-2 of the Civil Service Law, the
provisions of the New York State Civil Service Rules and Regulations
which deal with the rating of examination will apply.
10.
The
eligible list established as a result of this
examination will remain in force for at least one year and may be extended by
the Department of Civil Service for a maximum of four years. Changing conditions may make it necessary to
certify to future vacancies at higher or lower salaries than those announced.
11.
Information
regarding eligibility for veterans’ credits appears on the open-competitive
application form.
12.
Pursuant
to Section 85-a of the Civil Service Law, children of firefighters and police
officers killed in the line of duty shall be entitled to receive an additional
ten points added to a passing score attained in a competitive examination for
original appointment in the same municipality in which his or her parent
served. If you are qualified to
participate in this examination, and you are the child of a firefighter or
police officer killed in the line of duty, please so notify us in writing when
you submit your application for examination.
A candidate claiming such credit must submit appropriate documentation
to verify eligibility to receive these additional credits before the eligible list
is established.
No additional credits will be granted after the
eligible list is established.
13.
Inquiries
may be made as to character and ability and all
statements made by candidates are subject to verification. Some employers may require the candidate to be fingerprinted and to pass a background investigation.
14.
Candidates
must be medically, physically and psychologically capable of performing the
duties of the job. Candidates who are appointed to positions in the Suffolk County service may
be required to pass qualifying medical and/or physical and/or psychological
evaluations.
15.
Residency
is not required for taking any examinations.
However, some jurisdictions, such as schools, libraries, etc., give
hiring preference to residents. Some
towns also require employees to establish residency within the township. For employment in a Suffolk County
Department, with only limited exceptions set forth in Suffolk County Law,
residency within Suffolk County is required within five years of employment
with the county. In any case in which residency preference is given, the
appointee(s) must meet a specific residency standard as defined in the Civil
Service Rules.
16.
Saturday
Sabbath Observers and handicapped persons:
If special arrangements for testing are required, indicate this on your
application.
17.
No
smoking is permitted in the building or on the grounds
of the examination site.
18.
If
you will be on active military duty with the armed forces of the United States
on the date of this test, please contact the Suffolk County Department of Civil
Service before the last filing date appearing on this announcement for
alternate test date information.
19.
Multiple Examinations Scheduled for the
Same Day: If you have applied to take a
written test announced by either one or several local jurisdictions (county,
town, city) scheduled to be held on the same test date as this written test,
you must notify each of the local jurisdictions no later than two weeks before
the test date, so they can make arrangements for taking all tests at one test
site. All examinations for positions in State
government will be held at a State examination
center. If you have any questions,
please call the Suffolk County Department of Civil Service at (631) 853-5500.
20.
For
information regarding a weather-related cancellation of this examination,
please refer to our website at www.suffolkcountyny.gov/Departments/Civil-Service
and click on the “Weather Related Exam Cancellations” link. Civil Service Announcements are shown at the bottom of that page. Also check News 12
Long Island for notice of cancellation of this examination: NEWS 12 LONG ISLAND, TV CHANNEL 12 or at
their website: www.news12.com.
Suffolk County
Department of Civil Service
725 Veterans
Memorial Hwy.,
William J. Lindsay
County Complex, Bldg. # 158
P.O. Box 6100
Hauppauge, NY 11788-0099
Phone: (631) 853-5500
MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR
PARK RANGER I
These standards are subject to change
during the life of the eligible list without notice to candidates.
Eyes: Acuity Vision – The minimum
acceptable standard of visual acuity uncorrected with each eye tested
separately shall be no worse than 20/100 in each eye. Corrected, with both eyes tested together,
shall be no worse than binocular vision of 20/30. Left and right lateral (horizontal) field of
vision shall be no worse than 85 degrees in each direction to provide a
binocular horizontal field of vision of at least 170 degrees. Determination is to be made
without correction.
Eyes: Color Vision - Perception of
color is deemed acceptable if the candidate reads at
least nine (9) or more of the first thirteen (13) plates of the 24-plate
edition of the Ishihara Test. If the
candidate's color perception is deemed unacceptable through
the use of said test and he/she believes the results to be incorrect,
such an individual may at his/her own expense can take the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-Hue Test as prescribed by the Municipal Police
Training Council and only at facilities designated to perform this test. The
use of any lens by a candidate in order to meet the color perception standard
is not acceptable.
Ears and Hearing - A hearing loss
in either ear of more than 25 DB in the 500, 1000, and 2000 Hz range or a loss
of more than 30 DB in the 3000 Hz range is considered
disqualifying. Abnormal testing results between 4000 and 6000 Hz will require
further evaluation. Hearing Aid Check --
Biological (HAC-B): Use of hearing aids
to achieve such standards are permitted as long as they are self-contained and
fit within (auricular) or behind or over (post-auricular) the ear. Candidates with hearing aids shall, at their own expense, provide evidence from a
licensed audiologist, using functional gain or real ear measurements, that such
aid(s) meet the stipulated manufacturer’s standards. Any ear condition requires a case-by-case
assessment to determine if it will affect the essential functions of the
position.
Nose, Throat, Mouth - Any condition
or symptom will be assessed on a case-by case basis to
determine the ability to perform the essential functions of the position such
as loss of sense of smell, speech loss/defects, interference with proper
fitting of a gas mask.
Peripheral Vascular and Heart - Candidates will
be assessed on a case-by-case basis as to the control of any condition and the
presence and severity of symptoms and complications to determine if the
candidate is able to perform the essential functions of the position. Resting blood pressure should be less than,
or equal to, 140 mmHg systolic and 90 mmHg diastolic on three successive
readings.
Respiratory - The respiratory
system must be free of chronically disabling conditions that would interfere
with the candidate's performance of required duties.
Gastrointestinal - Any
malignancies, disorders, and active symptoms will be assessed
on a case-by-case basis to determine ability to perform job functions.
Endocrine & Metabolic - Candidates who
have a condition or disorder that may affect job performance will
be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Neurological Health - Candidates must
be free of neurological disorders that may affect job performance. Candidates with epilepsy or seizure disorders
must provide evidence of one-year seizure free history prior to date of
examination.
Musculoskeletal Health - Candidates must
have no defect, deformities or disorders that may affect job performance. Candidates are not acceptable if there is an
impairment of more than one finger on either hand. There should be no functional impairment of
the thumb or index finger on either hand.
Any disease or injury of back, joints or muscles as revealed by physical
examination that will interfere with the proper performance of duties will be considered potentially disqualifying.
Dermatological Health - Candidates must
be free of skin condition that would lead to inability to perform the duties of
the position.
Mental Health - Candidates must
be free of mental illness, serious emotional disturbances or nervous disorders,
alcoholism, drug dependence or abuse that would interfere with the performance
of their duties. Candidates will be evaluated through a psychological screening
process. Candidates may
be screened for presence of drugs of abuse.
General Medical Statement - Candidates must
be free of any medical and/or nervous condition, which would jeopardize the
safety and health of the public and/or other employees.
Physical Fitness Screening Test
SIT
UP MUSCULAR
ENDURANCE (Core Body) - The score indicated below is the number of bent-leg
sit-ups performed in one (1) minute.
PUSH-UP MUSCULAR
ENDURANCE (Upper Body) – The score indicated below is the number of full body
repetitions that a candidate must complete without breaks.
1.5
MILE RUN CARDIOVASCULAR CAPACITY -
The score indicated below is calculated in minutes:seconds. The running surface may vary and the test
may be conducted on either an indoor or outdoor track.
TEST - MALE |
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AGE |
SIT-UP |
PUSH-UP |
1.5 MILE RUN |
20 - 29 |
38 |
29 |
12:38 |
30 - 39 |
35 |
24 |
12:58 |
40 - 49 |
29 |
18 |
13:50 |
50 - 59 |
24 |
13 |
15:06 |
60+ |
19 |
10 |
16:46 |
TEST – FEMALE |
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20 - 29 |
32 |
15 |
14:50 |
30 - 39 |
25 |
11 |
15:43 |
40 - 49 |
20 |
9 |
16:31 |
50 - 59 |
14 |
0 |
18:18 |
60+ |
6 |
0 |
20:16 |
A
candidate must successfully complete each of the three elements of the test
battery at the minimum score as set forth above to be deemed to have
successfully completed the physical fitness screening
test.