Full Time Deputy Recorder

Job Posting

This listing closes on July 26, 2025 at 4 : 30 PM Central Time (US & Canada).

Employer : Brown County (MN)

Salary : $23.84 - $26.73 Hourly

Location : New Ulm, MN

Job Type : Full Time

Job Number : 00263

Department : Recorder

Opening Date : July 11, 2025

Closing Date : July 26, 2025 at 4 : 30 PM Central Time (US & Canada)

Position Summary

Responsible to assist the County Recorder / Registrar of Titles to properly record and index documents, process vital statistics, provide customer service, and perform office support functions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Recorder Functions

• Records real estate transactions for the County.
• Calculates, collects and documents the receipt of required filing fees.
• Ensures accurate scanning, indexing and filing of all real estate instruments.
• Utilizes and maintains the Tri-Min computer system.
• Determines the legality of accepting certain documents, based on conformance with recording standards, title standards and statutes; interprets statutes for customers.
• Records deeds, mortgages and other real estate documents; analyzes certificates of titles for the disposition of encumbrances and approves documentation of easements.
• Reviews, deciphers and draws out legal descriptions in order to ensure consistency with adjacent properties and proper closure of metes and bounds.
• Organizes and maintains documents related to plats, surveys and monument records for use by surveyors and the general public. Receives and sets up new plats in Landlink software.
• Reviews incoming documents received for recording, accepting or rejecting.
• Prepares Real Estate Title Research Reports; Judgment, Tax Lien and property tax searches; Abstracting of Real Estate Title and certifies Condition of Register for Torrens property.
• Proofs legal descriptions for Torrens certificates.
• Processes Federal & State tax liens; checks State system for Federal tax liens.
• Verifies well certificates.
• Maintains Geographic Information System (GIS).
• Implements the Safe at Home Law utilizing a parallel confidential recordation system.
• Assists the public in searches in real estate and vital records.
• Furnishes information as requested and subject to legal authority by phone, fax, mail or in person.
• Assists attorneys, surveyors, bankers, and title companies in researching and gathering information concerning real estate.
• Maintains knowledge of and interprets relevant state and local laws, policies and procedures.
• Prepares a variety of reports and documents.

Vital Statistics

Other Duties

Qualifications

Education

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Position is Grade 4 with an entry hourly wage range of $23.84 to $26.73, DOQ.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER

Benefits

Brown County provides a comprehensive, balanced, and competitive benefits package as part of your total compensation. The following outline of County-offered benefits serves as an overview and does not provide all provisions, limitations, and exclusions. If there is a contradiction between this and the official plan documents, the plan documents will prevail.

Vacation Vacation accruals, utilization, and payouts vary within each collective bargaining agreement and / or the employee handbook. The following is the general overview of the vacation benefit for full time employees :

Sick Leave Full time employees may earn 8 hours of sick leave per month.

Paid Holidays Most employee groups observe the following holidays :

Health Insurance Full-Time employees and employees working 30 or more hours per week may choose between single or family coverage. Eligibility begins on the first day of the month after the date of active employment. The County has designated a base plan which is a high deductible plan with an HSA option. The County contributes monthly towards the cost of the health plan premiums with a semi-annual county contribution into employee's HSA for the single or the family coverage plan. For regular part time employees working 30+ hours / week year around, the County will pay 75% of the county share of single coverage (base plan) which may be applied towards family coverage and also contribute 75% of the employer HSA contribution.

Life Insurance Full-Time Employees are provided with the following term life insurance benefit at no cost to them. Regular part-time employees working 30 or more hours per week are eligible for this benefit with County paying 75% of premium. Eligibility begins on the first day of the month after the date of active employment. $20,000 term life / $20,000 AD&D

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