Job Specifications
Job Summary
Develops, implements, administers, and directs safety and security policies, programs, procedures and operations, ensuring the security of property, staff, and visitors. Develops and executes an enterprise physical security and executive protection strategy aligned with enterprise risk and business priorities. Works closely with cross-functional teams including legal, regulatory, enterprise risk, cyber security, facilities, and executive leadership, to deliver comprehensive, risk-based security programs. Establishes physical security standards and protocols integrated with cyber and information security and facilities programs. Leverages risk assessments to make informed, risk-based recommendations to programs. Maintains a deep understanding of laws, public safety, criminal tactics and physical threats, and applies risk mitigations. Ensures compliance with local regulations and insurance requirements. Identifies and evaluates safety risks and selects methods for managing risk exposures which could potentially result in human, physical or financial loss to the company. Leads the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of access control, surveillance, perimeter protection, and emergency response programs. Manages enterprise security education, training, and awareness programs. Manages physical security budgets and measures program effectiveness through KPIs, dashboards, and risk reporting. Manages vendor performance (e.g.,., security systems integrators, guards, monitors, investigations). Drives business continuity and crisis management planning for physical security incidents and broad contingencies. Hires, mentors, and leads a geographically distributed physical security team. Oversees and is accountable for the daily tactical operations and overall strategic execution of the team.
Job Duties And Responsibilities
Optimizes and builds out the security function in line with enterprise footprint, risk exposure, risk appetite, organizational requirements, and business priorities as well as best practices, industry standards and applicable regulations.
Establishes strong working relationships with executive management and other senior leaders and works in tandem with the Chief Security Officer (CSO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to safeguard the business.
Develops plans and programs that identify, measure, and monitor potential security exposures. Manages and oversees the identification, analysis, interpretation, and response to conditions, personnel and visitor situations, and environmental factors, and threat intelligence that may affect security. Implements appropriate safety and security management controls to mitigate exposure to harm or loss consistent with enterprise risk appetite with a priority on human safety.
Establishes and maintains an enterprise-wide, 24x7x365 security operations center capability with responsibilities for monitoring, support, response, escalation, and critical incident response
Defines, develops and oversees implementation, maintenance, and support of access control procedures and systems for employees, customers and visitors.
Develops and maintains partnerships with local law enforcement and emergency agencies, intelligence agencies, private security firms, and other threat intelligence sources to coordinate security measures, share threat intelligence, and collaborate on security operations
Coordinates security event investigations and facility safety and security inspections. Ensures an effective security and safety program is maintained and that appropriate measures are taken to comply with company, OSHA, DOT, State and related safety regulation policies and directives.
Oversees and manages all aspects of new and existing security systems, technology and devices including planning, evaluation, purchase, enhancement, installation, testing and servicing. Reviews plans and specifications for proposed facility modifications as related to safety requirements and recommends modifications as needed. Manages vendor relationships and oversees the work of contractors.
Manages and continues to develop emergency preparedness and disaster recovery plans and guidelines, ensuring the implementation of appropriate planning, preparation and recovery. Prepare direct reports for handling emergency situations, with an emphasis on safety of people first. Maintains a close working relationship with local authorities.
Conducts training exercises in preparation for emergency situations. Conducts postmortems to identify where improvement is needed. Requires and schedules independent. verification and validation testing of the company's security and its ability to respond and remediate in a timely manner.
Creates and maintains a strong security culture within the security organization and enterprise-wide across management and team members. Coaches, trains, and enables team members to recognize and report suspicious activities and unsafe conditions that may result i