Career Opportunities
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Web Services Designer – A full-time Web Services Designer position is available in our IT department. The position is located in Barboursville; and the hours will be 8:30-5:00 Monday-Friday. The purpose of this position is to work on a variety of projects primarily involved in web site design and development, including creation of custom graphics. The individual will be responsible for designing the user interface and overall customer experience for our web sites and applications. The individual must have excellent analytical and technical ability. Two years experience is preferred. Please apply by answering a few brief questions and attaching your resume.
Executive Administrative Assistant – A full-time administrative position is available at our Mortgage Department. The purpose of this position is to provide secretarial and administrative support to the Vice President. The hours are 8:00-4:30 Monday thru Friday. The individual must have excellent PC and writing skills, be detail oriented and organized. One year experience is preferred. Please apply by answering a few brief questions and attaching your resume.
Teller - A part-time teller position is available at our Teays Valley branch. The branch is open six days a week and the hours are rotating. The purpose of this position is to assist customers with all bank accounts including crediting and debiting funds to accounts, accepting loan payments, and providing receipts for all transactions. One year of cash handling experience is required, and banking experience is preferred. Please apply by answering a few brief questions and attaching your resume.
Employee Policies
Benefits
Free Bill Pay and Bill Scanning
First State Bank employees receive free online banking, bill pay and paper bill scannning valued at $6.95 a month.
Health Reimbursement Accounts
The Health Reimbursement Accounts (Vested Health) are individual health reimbursement arrangements that the bank established to help pay employees’ medical expenses. The bank pays 100% of the cost for each participating employee, including all monthly allotments, and all administrative and annual fees.
Flexible Spending Accounts
Employees may elect to contribute money per pay period to a Flexible Spending Account (TASC), which allows the employee to pay for eligible health care expenses on a pre-tax basis.
Employees may also elect to contribute money per pay period to a Dependent Care Account (TASC), which allows the employee to pay for eligible employment-related dependent care expenses on a pre-tax basis. The bank pays all administrative costs associated with the Flexible Spending Accounts.
Disability
If a full-time employee is permanently disabled for 90 days, they are eligible to receive 66 2/3% of their salary to age 65. The 66 2/3% of the basic monthly earning can not exceed a maximum monthly benefit of $10,000.00. The First State Bank pays 100% of the long-term disability premium for full-time employees.
Leave
For the calendar year beginning January 1, leave benefits include: Personal/short-term absence days, Vacation time and Holiday time; In addition, The First State Bank has provisions for bereavement leave, jury duty leave, military leave, and family and medical leave.
Workers Compensation
The bank pays 100% of the cost of coverage for workers compensation, including all administrative expenses.
Life Insurance
All full-time employees have individual coverage for group term life insurance in the amount of two and half times their annual salary. The bank pays 100% percent of the premium cost for each full-time employee.
Social Security
The First State Bank contributes to and also forwards employee withholding taxes under FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act which includes Social Security and Medicare benefits) on your behalf. These benefits provide each working American with retirement income and also provide income security to employees in the event of disability, income security to surviving members of deceased workers' families, and hospital insurance for the aged and the disabled.
You may request a Personal Earnings and Benefit Statement (PEBES) from the Social Security Administration to verify your earnings records and receive an estimate of your future Social Security benefits. You may request a statement online at
https://secure.ssa.gov/apps6z/isss/main.html.
Retirement
The bank sponsors an ESOP retirement plan in which eligible employees may participate. Employees may make pre-tax contributions in the 401 K portion of the plan and, based on profitability; the bank may make a matching contribution to the amounts employees have contributed. The bank pays for all of the administration expenses.
Employment Screening
All positions are contingent upon successful completion of a credit check, drug test, and background screening.
Dress Code
The dress code for The First State Bank is as follows: Female employees are requested to wear a skirt and dress shirt or dress; no pants or pant suits are allowed. Male employees are requested to wear ties, dress shirt and pants.
Please realize that this benefits listing is not a legal document. All benefits are governed by the actual benefit plans, which have precedence over the information reported in this listing. The First State Bank reserves the right to change, suspend, or cancel its benefit policies or practices with or without notice.
