Specialist - Security Guard

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Job Description

Department: Safety and Security

General Statement of Job

The Security Guard Specialist ensures that patrols and inspections of campus buildings, grounds, and parking areas are conducted for the prevention of crimes. Supervises security guards and schedules personnel to cover designated facilities and shifts. Provides escort services and other basic public assistance services to students, employees, and visitors when needed. Remains alert to emergency situations and provides first-line response.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Supervises security guards and schedules personnel to cover designated facilities and shifts.

• Ensures that patrols and inspections of campus buildings, grounds, and parking areas are conducted for the prevention of crimes.
• Ensures security personnel follow the Security Guard Operating Procedures.
• Reviews, verifies and approves time cards and leave requests for security personnel.
• Monitors performance and counsel’s security personnel on performance and attendance matters.
• Documents infractions and failure to adhere to operating procedures; prepares written disciplinary documentation, as approved by the Parking and Security Services Manager.
• Recommends and obtains quotes for equipment needed for security guard operations to the Parking and Security Services Manager.
• Responsible for training security personnel.
• Promptly responds to safety and security incidents.
• Deters criminal acts and violence through preemptive and proactive actions.
• Documents concise and accurate incident reports, security logs, evaluations, and other required written documentation.
• Prepares pertinent reports and gathers written statements, as needed.
• Ensures lost and found items obtained by security personnel are properly documented.
• Makes parking reservations for events that have been approved by the South Texas College Department of Public Safety.
• Provides safety and security services at College functions, as needed.
• Provides escort services and other basic public assistance services to students, employees, and visitors when needed.
• Monitors the issuance of citations for parking and moving violations on college properties.
• Maintains college evacuation chairs for use during emergencies.
• Ensures gators, trucks, and bicycles are properly maintained and serviced.
• Assists with traffic control and crosswalk duty, as needed.
• Assists with data entry of incident reports, permits, and others, as needed.
• Keeps current on state and federal laws and regulations that affect the South Texas College Security Program.
• Travels throughout the college district, as needed.
• Serves as Campus Security Authority.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience

• Associate's Degree required.
• At least two (2) years of experience in security and safety operations required.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong computer skills with knowledge of Microsoft Office including, but not limited to, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, the Windows environment, and internet research skills.
• Must possess situation awareness skills.
• Ability to demonstrate exemplary work practices and work ethic.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a broad range of constituents both orally and in writing.
• Ability to remain calm in difficult, dangerous, and high-stress emergency situations.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment with minimal supervision.
• Must be willing and able to work various hours, various locations, and rotating shifts, including days, nights, weekends, College closures, and holidays, as needed.
• Ability to travel throughout the college district using own means of reliable transportation or College-owned vehicles.
• Demonstrated commitment to achieving the vision and mission of South Texas College.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, college policies and procedures, governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present and respond to inquiries from groups of students, faculty, staff, administration and the general public.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

Checks, Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations

• Security Sensitive position: all applicants are subject to a criminal background check under South Texas College policy.
• In addition, subject to a federal background check.
• Must have or qualify for a valid Texas driver’s license and be insurable under South Texas College’s insurance policy for driving.
• Must maintain authorization to drive College-owned vehicles.
• CPR and First Aid Instructor certification required or must be obtained within six (6) months of employment.

Physical Requirements

• Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects.
• Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.
• Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Standing particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Shouting in order to be heard above ambient noise level.
• Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, and/or extensive reading including color, depth perception, and field vision.
• Visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.
• Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, and/or extensive reading including color, depth perception, and field vision.
• Visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.
• Visual acuity to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment.
• Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and operation of machines, using measurement devices, and/or assembly or fabrication parts at distances close to the eyes.
• Mobility to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
  

Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions.

The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

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