Kankakee County Illinois Jobs

Kankakee County government delivers services through courts, highways, planning, finance, public health coordination, justice agencies, veterans programs, and administrative offices. The county human-resources page provides a central path to current public-service openings and application materials.

The City of Kankakee administers public works, development, code enforcement, finance, community services, recreation-related programs, and public safety in the county seat. Its job page lists municipal opportunities and gives applicants direct access to city hiring information.

Bourbonnais operates a growing village government with public works, community development, finance, parks coordination, administration, and public-safety responsibilities. Its official employment information is a useful local source for municipal, seasonal, and service-oriented career opportunities.

Riverside Healthcare is a major Kankakee-based health system anchored by Riverside Medical Center and supported by clinics, specialty services, behavioral health, rehabilitation, and outpatient care. Careers span clinical practice, diagnostics, technology, administration, facilities, and patient-support work.

St. Mary’s Hospital in Kankakee, formerly part of Presence and Ascension, now operates under Prime Healthcare. The hospital provides acute, emergency, surgical, diagnostic, and specialty services and recruits nurses, clinicians, technicians, business staff, and support employees.

I-KAN Regional Office of Education serves Kankakee and Iroquois counties with licensure, professional development, alternative education, compliance, and regional student programs. Its employment resources help applicants locate openings in the ROE and participating school systems.

Kankakee District 111 operates elementary, middle, high, early-childhood, and specialized programs in the city. The district recruits classroom teachers, student-support professionals, paraprofessionals, transportation staff, food-service employees, facilities workers, administrators, substitutes, and other school personnel.

Kankakee Community College is a public two-year institution offering transfer, career-technical, healthcare, adult-education, and workforce programs. Employment opportunities include faculty, student services, administration, technology, facilities, laboratory support, public safety, and continuing-education positions.

Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais is a private university with undergraduate, graduate, athletics, student-life, library, and campus-service operations. Its employment system includes faculty and staff careers in academics, administration, technology, enrollment, facilities, and student support.

Kankakee County’s Sheriff provides countywide law enforcement outside local police coverage and maintains detention, court, investigative, and civil-process responsibilities. Public-safety hiring can include deputy patrol, corrections, communications, records, transport, and other operational or civilian assignments.

Kankakee Police provides patrol, investigations, traffic enforcement, neighborhood engagement, emergency response, and specialized city law-enforcement services. Recruitment is handled through municipal channels, where applicants can find testing and application information for officer and related public-safety careers.

Kankakee Workforce Services at Kankakee Community College offers career assistance, training programs, job-search resources, employer connections, and workforce-development services. It gives county residents a local place to obtain practical help when a direct employer application is not enough.

Kankakee County residents can search Illinois’ official state-employment portal for agency jobs locally, in nearby regions, and across the state. The system covers corrections, human services, transportation, public health, administration, technology, regulation, and many specialized government occupations.

Illinois JobLink is the state’s public job-search and workforce platform, combining employer listings with resume and matching tools. Kankakee-area applicants can use it to extend searches beyond the county’s largest government, hospital, education, and public-safety employers.