What are the responsibilities and job description for the Coroner Technician - Operations Division position at Boulder County Sheriff's Office?
Salary
$25.00 Hourly
Location
Boulder County, CO
Job Type
Hourly
Job Number
6680(ZZ1)
Department
Coroners Office
Opening Date
04/02/2026
Closing Date
4/12/2026 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA
Non-Exempt
Boulder County Coroner's Office Department is seeking to hire a Coroner Technician - Operations Division. The Coroner Technician is responsible for the day-to-day assistance to the Operations Division. This position performs a variety of complex operational support duties requiring independent judgment of a non-routine, confidential and complex nature in support of the Boulder County Coroner’s Office.
Complexity/Responsibility
Work is characterized by assisting the Operations Division in the Investigations and Pathology Units. This position will perform routine, non-routine, confidential and complex tasks unique to the Coroner’s Office. Critical thinking and respectful, professional behavior are required. The Coroner Technician must pay strict attention to detail, be able to multi-task, and take initiative. Work involves a variety of sensitive and highly confidential material. The ideal candidate is organized, self-motivated, adaptable, detail oriented, passionate, highly efficient and able to work under heightened emotional situations in challenging environmental conditions while maintaining a positive and professional attitude.
Scope Of Interpersonal Contacts
The Coroner Technician is a representative of the Coroner’s Office and is involved in a myriad of interpersonal contacts. Such contacts require a high degree of interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, tact, discretion, etiquette, and good judgment. Contacts may include but are not limited to: Boulder County personnel, vendors, law enforcement personnel, mortuary staff, medical staff, laboratory staff, and family and friends of a decedent.
This is an hourly, non-benefited position that will work 15 to 20 hours per week, Monday - Friday with possible call out during evenings, weekends, and holidays. This position will work out of 5610 Flatiron Parkway, Boulder, Colorado. Under Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) guidelines, this position is non-exempt (eligible for overtime).
Boulder County requires its employees to reside in the state of Colorado as of the first day of work.
Hiring Salary Range: $25.00 Hourly
Tentative Hiring Timeline
Examples of Duties
PLEASE NOTE: When completing your application describe all relevant education and experience, as applications are assessed based on the required qualifications listed. Resumes and other attachments are not accepted in lieu of completed applications and will not be reviewed in the initial screening process. Any personally identifiable information (PII) such as name and address will be redacted from applications that meet the minimum screening requirements and are forwarded to the hiring manager. If the hiring manager selects you to advance in the hiring process, your attachments will then be shared with the hiring team.
Education & Experience
Boulder County is looking for well qualified candidates to fill our positions. Any combination of relevant education and experience is encouraged. In this position, we are looking for a minimum of:
Additional related education may count towards required experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Along with offering competitive pay and a caring work environment, Boulder County offers hourly employees the following benefits:
Do you have a high school diploma or equivalent? (Required)
Do you have a valid driver's license and clean driving record? (Required)
Are you 18 years of age or older? (Required)
Have you attached a cover letter? (Required)
Please describe in detail including number of years how you meet the minimum requirement of 2 (two) years of medical and/or criminal justice experience or equivalent education.
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Describe your experience working with confidential information.
07
Describe your lab experience.
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Briefly explain your philosophy of workplace harmony.
09
If you have related experience to a coroner’s or medical examiner’s office – please explain in detail where you obtained your experience and the length of time you worked there. If you do not possess related experience, please type N/A below.
10
If you have investigations support experience —please explain in detail where you obtained your experience and the length of time you worked there, what your role and duties entailed. If you do not possess related experience, please list N/A below.
11
If you have worked in an environment where you had to conduct or assist with the intake, maintenance and disposition of bio-hazardous materials/waste, property, evidence, toxicology, histology, medication, bodies, and other specimens, please explain in detail where you obtained your experience and the length of time you worked there. If you answered “no”, please list N/A below.
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If you have worked in an environment where you had to interact with the bereaved, including fulfilling requests, providing referrals, releasing personal effects please explain in detail where you obtained your experience and the length of time you worked there. If you answered “no”, please list N/A below.
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If you have corresponded with funeral home establishments on death certificates, burial permits and/or autopsy reports; please explain in detail where you obtained your experience and the length of time you worked there. If you answered “no”, please list N/A below.
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A requirement of this position is that you must be able to work days, nights, weekends, holidays and maintain on-call availability. Are you able to meet this requirement?
A requirement of this position is that you have a less than 45-minute commute from your residence to the office, and that you have reliable cell phone coverage from that location. Do you meet this requirement?
Other than marijuana or hashish, have you ever used any form of illegal drugs or narcotics (drugs not prescribed to you by a physician)?
If you answered “YES” to drug usage question, please indicate what drugs were used, how many times, and the last time used.
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Other than illegal drugs or narcotics, have you used prescription medications outside the scope of their intended use (opioids, Adderall, Xanax, etc.)?
If you answered “YES” to the prescription medications usage question, please indicate what medications were used, how many times, and the last time used.
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A requirement of this position is that you pass a background check. If you have ever been arrested, accused of breaking a law, or a suspect in a criminal investigation, or fingerprinted as part of a criminal investigation, either as an adult or juvenile, please give the following information: (Exclude traffic citations). Failure to report this information will disqualify you from further consideration.
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One of our guiding values is around Inclusion. We value, respect, and support all individuals by being an inclusive, culturally responsive county government. What do you perceive as a challenge when working with a diverse workforce?
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What does diversity mean to you?
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Employer Boulder County
Address 2025 14th Street
Boulder, Colorado, 80302
Phone 303-441-3525
Website http://www.bouldercounty.org
$25.00 Hourly
Location
Boulder County, CO
Job Type
Hourly
Job Number
6680(ZZ1)
Department
Coroners Office
Opening Date
04/02/2026
Closing Date
4/12/2026 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA
Non-Exempt
- Description
- Benefits
- Questions
Boulder County Coroner's Office Department is seeking to hire a Coroner Technician - Operations Division. The Coroner Technician is responsible for the day-to-day assistance to the Operations Division. This position performs a variety of complex operational support duties requiring independent judgment of a non-routine, confidential and complex nature in support of the Boulder County Coroner’s Office.
Complexity/Responsibility
Work is characterized by assisting the Operations Division in the Investigations and Pathology Units. This position will perform routine, non-routine, confidential and complex tasks unique to the Coroner’s Office. Critical thinking and respectful, professional behavior are required. The Coroner Technician must pay strict attention to detail, be able to multi-task, and take initiative. Work involves a variety of sensitive and highly confidential material. The ideal candidate is organized, self-motivated, adaptable, detail oriented, passionate, highly efficient and able to work under heightened emotional situations in challenging environmental conditions while maintaining a positive and professional attitude.
Scope Of Interpersonal Contacts
The Coroner Technician is a representative of the Coroner’s Office and is involved in a myriad of interpersonal contacts. Such contacts require a high degree of interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, tact, discretion, etiquette, and good judgment. Contacts may include but are not limited to: Boulder County personnel, vendors, law enforcement personnel, mortuary staff, medical staff, laboratory staff, and family and friends of a decedent.
This is an hourly, non-benefited position that will work 15 to 20 hours per week, Monday - Friday with possible call out during evenings, weekends, and holidays. This position will work out of 5610 Flatiron Parkway, Boulder, Colorado. Under Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) guidelines, this position is non-exempt (eligible for overtime).
Boulder County requires its employees to reside in the state of Colorado as of the first day of work.
Hiring Salary Range: $25.00 Hourly
Tentative Hiring Timeline
- Phone Screening: Week of April 13th
- First Round Interviews: Week of April 20th
- Reference Check: Week of April 20th
Examples of Duties
- Assist in administrative and operational support functions for the Investigations, and Pathology
- Assist the investigations unit with death investigations under the supervision of a medicolegal death investigator
- Operate a fleet vehicle, while responding to scene locations to recover and prepare decedents for transport to the coroner’s office; pick-up and delivery of specimens, and or records from laboratories, hospitals, care centers and physician offices
- Intake and process decedents into the custody of the coroner’s office; collects and preserves physical and medical evidence
- Collect fingerprints for identification purposes
- Perform limited scope diagnostic imaging (x-ray) for identification, documentation of trauma, and evidence location and collection
- Perform limited photography of decedents and death scenes
- Collect, inventory, document, and protect the integrity of evidence and personal effects via chain of custody
- Assist in the release of decedents to authorized parties
- Perform a variety of case related data entry via case management system
- Participate on an emergency preparedness and mass fatality
- May be required to be ‘on-call’ from time to time to help respond to emergencies
- Perform special projects of complex administrative, technical, or confidential nature such as completing death certificates in the Colorado Electronic Death Registration (EDR) System
- Maintain, review, and verify routine or specialized reports and records related to death investigations including images
- Maintain confidentiality of records in accordance with state law, and office policies and procedures
- Perform related work, as required
- May be reassigned during emergency situations
PLEASE NOTE: When completing your application describe all relevant education and experience, as applications are assessed based on the required qualifications listed. Resumes and other attachments are not accepted in lieu of completed applications and will not be reviewed in the initial screening process. Any personally identifiable information (PII) such as name and address will be redacted from applications that meet the minimum screening requirements and are forwarded to the hiring manager. If the hiring manager selects you to advance in the hiring process, your attachments will then be shared with the hiring team.
Education & Experience
Boulder County is looking for well qualified candidates to fill our positions. Any combination of relevant education and experience is encouraged. In this position, we are looking for a minimum of:
- A high school diploma or equivalent
- 2 (two) years of medical and/or criminal justice experience
Additional related education may count towards required experience.
- Applicants must have a valid driver's license and a clean driving record
- For more information regarding a clean driving record, please click here.
- Must meet Boulder County Driver Requirements
- A job offer is contingent on passing a background investigation with fingerprinting
- Applicants must pass a pre-employment physical and drug test
- Applicants must be at least 18 years of age or older
- Applicants must pass a polygraph examination
- Applicants must be able to work days, nights, weekends, holidays, and maintain on-call availability
- Applicants must have a less than 45-minute commute from your residence to the office, and reliable cell phone coverage from that location
- Applicants may be required to work special hours on short notice
- All applicants are required to attach a cover letter for this position
Preferred Qualifications
- Bilingual in English and Spanish
- Experience working with or for a coroner or medical examiner's office, or other related experience such as a mortuary, law enforcement, health care, etc.
- Experience working with bereaved family members
- Critical thinking skills
- Strict attention to detail
- Ability to multi-task and take initiative
- Organizational skills
- Self-motivational skills
- Adaptability
- Detail oriented
- Ability to work under heightened emotional situations in challenging environmental conditions while maintaining a positive and professional attitude
- Physical work varies from sedentary to requiring ability to lift over 150 pounds
- Occasional lifting, carrying, walking, and standing
- Frequent hand/eye coordination to operate computer keyboard and office equipment
- Vision for reading, recording and interpreting information
- Speech communication and hearing to maintain communication with employees and members of the public
- Frequently sits
- Frequently stoops, kneels, balances, climbs, and crouches to perform job tasks
- Frequently required to lift, push, or pull burdens of over 100 pounds, including bodies
- Frequently stands and walks to complete duties requiring mobility
- Constantly involved in auditory and oral interactions; interpersonally and through communication devices such as telephones
- Constantly utilizes full scope of visual capacity to perform job tasks
- Constantly utilizes eye, hand, and finger coordination to perform job tasks
Along with offering competitive pay and a caring work environment, Boulder County offers hourly employees the following benefits:
- peace of mind for the future with PERA pension, PERA 401k, and Social Security retirement plans;
- ways to get around town with discounts on the RTD Eco Pass;
- paid medical leave;
- the opportunity to take charge of your well-being through a nationally-recognized wellness program.
Do you have a high school diploma or equivalent? (Required)
- Yes
- No
Do you have a valid driver's license and clean driving record? (Required)
- Yes
- No
Are you 18 years of age or older? (Required)
- Yes
- No
Have you attached a cover letter? (Required)
- Yes
- No
Please describe in detail including number of years how you meet the minimum requirement of 2 (two) years of medical and/or criminal justice experience or equivalent education.
06
Describe your experience working with confidential information.
07
Describe your lab experience.
08
Briefly explain your philosophy of workplace harmony.
09
If you have related experience to a coroner’s or medical examiner’s office – please explain in detail where you obtained your experience and the length of time you worked there. If you do not possess related experience, please type N/A below.
10
If you have investigations support experience —please explain in detail where you obtained your experience and the length of time you worked there, what your role and duties entailed. If you do not possess related experience, please list N/A below.
11
If you have worked in an environment where you had to conduct or assist with the intake, maintenance and disposition of bio-hazardous materials/waste, property, evidence, toxicology, histology, medication, bodies, and other specimens, please explain in detail where you obtained your experience and the length of time you worked there. If you answered “no”, please list N/A below.
12
If you have worked in an environment where you had to interact with the bereaved, including fulfilling requests, providing referrals, releasing personal effects please explain in detail where you obtained your experience and the length of time you worked there. If you answered “no”, please list N/A below.
13
If you have corresponded with funeral home establishments on death certificates, burial permits and/or autopsy reports; please explain in detail where you obtained your experience and the length of time you worked there. If you answered “no”, please list N/A below.
14
A requirement of this position is that you must be able to work days, nights, weekends, holidays and maintain on-call availability. Are you able to meet this requirement?
- Yes
- No
A requirement of this position is that you have a less than 45-minute commute from your residence to the office, and that you have reliable cell phone coverage from that location. Do you meet this requirement?
- Yes
- No
Other than marijuana or hashish, have you ever used any form of illegal drugs or narcotics (drugs not prescribed to you by a physician)?
- Yes
- No
If you answered “YES” to drug usage question, please indicate what drugs were used, how many times, and the last time used.
18
Other than illegal drugs or narcotics, have you used prescription medications outside the scope of their intended use (opioids, Adderall, Xanax, etc.)?
- Yes
- No
If you answered “YES” to the prescription medications usage question, please indicate what medications were used, how many times, and the last time used.
20
A requirement of this position is that you pass a background check. If you have ever been arrested, accused of breaking a law, or a suspect in a criminal investigation, or fingerprinted as part of a criminal investigation, either as an adult or juvenile, please give the following information: (Exclude traffic citations). Failure to report this information will disqualify you from further consideration.
21
One of our guiding values is around Inclusion. We value, respect, and support all individuals by being an inclusive, culturally responsive county government. What do you perceive as a challenge when working with a diverse workforce?
22
What does diversity mean to you?
Required Question
Employer Boulder County
Address 2025 14th Street
Boulder, Colorado, 80302
Phone 303-441-3525
Website http://www.bouldercounty.org
Salary : $25