Industrial Security Specialist

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The MITRE Industrial Security department oversees the operations of classified facilities and ensures the implementation of operative security controls intended for the protection of unclassified and classified national security information (NSI) developed by or entrusted to MITRE as a member of the National Industrial Security Program (NISP). The department applies resources to mitigate risk across operational domains through a continuum of security administration standards, control strategies, and oversight levels that align with corporate needs and expectations.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As an Industrial Security Specialist supporting the McLean campus, you will serve as the primary responsible security professional for oversight and sustainment of Open Storage Areas (OSAs). This role is accountable for maintaining compliant secure-area operations, documentation, user practices, and corrective-action follow-through in accordance with the NISPOM/32 CFR Part 117, 32 CFR 2001.53, applicable Cognizant Security Agency (CSA) and sponsor requirements, and MITRE security procedures.

This position requires an experienced industrial security professional who can exercise independent judgment, coordinate across facilities, program, cyber, and sponsor stakeholders, and translate regulatory requirements into practical daily operations. The successful candidate will help ensure MITRE's secure spaces remain inspection-ready, operationally effective, and aligned with mission needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary site lead for OSA compliance sustainment, daily operating discipline, documentation health, and readiness for CSA, sponsor, DCSA, and internal reviews.

• Maintain OSA approval and accreditation artifacts, including OSA checklists, UL 2050 certificates, TEMPEST checklists, IDS/alarm documentation, floor plans, mitigation plans, corrective-action records, and sponsor or CSA correspondence.

• Conduct recurring OSA compliance checks and coordinate resolution of gaps involving construction, doors and locks, vents, ducts, miscellaneous openings, windows, IDS coverage, access controls, end-of-day checks, and classified material safeguarding.

• Partner with the FSO/AFSO, Facilities/Corporate Real Estate, ISSM/ISSO, program teams, and sponsors on new secure-space builds, modifications, inspections, maintenance activities, and operational changes affecting assigned OSAs.

• Establish, maintain, and reinforce procedures for accounting, controlling, transmitting, packaging, safeguarding, and destroying classified information within assigned secure spaces; support classified meetings, visitor coordination, and Visitor Approval Requests (VARs).

• Support NISP annual self-inspections, CSA, DCSA, sponsor, and internal assessments, including fact collection, incident support, mitigation planning, and corrective-action tracking.

• Design and deliver security education, training, and awareness for OSA users, including secure-space access expectations, end-of-day checks, unauthorized disclosure prevention, classification and marking practices, reporting requirements, and daily safeguarding responsibilities.

• Maintain SPPs, local operating procedures, checklists, job aids, systems-of-record updates, and management status briefings related to OSA readiness, compliance posture, risks, and remediation status.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 4 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years' experience; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• 5 plus years of security-relevant experience in industrial security, classified facility operations, physical security, or a closely related security discipline.

• Comprehensive understanding of NISPOM/32 CFR Part 117, 32 CFR 2001.53, DD-254 requirements, classified material safeguarding, and related Federal security requirements and documents.

• Experience supporting secure areas or Open Storage Areas, including compliance documentation, inspections, checklists, UL 2050/IDS coordination, TEMPEST considerations, mitigation plans, or corrective actions.

• Working knowledge of NISS, DISS, NBIS, SIMS, or similar industrial security systems of record; strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to coordinate across technical staff, program leaders, customers, sponsors, and inspection officials.

• Ability to work independently on site, prioritize competing requirements, document decisions, and follow through on compliance actions with minimal supervision.

• Must have an active Top Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.

• This position requires a minimum of 5 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance.

• Completed DCSA Center for Development of Security Excellence (CDSE) FSO Program Management for Possessing Facilities course or equivalent industrial security training.

• Experience preparing for or supporting CSA, DCSA, sponsor, or internal inspections of secure spaces or classified operations.

• Experience coordinating secure-space construction, modification, alarm/IDS sustainment, UL 2050 certification, TEMPEST reviews, or facility remediation activities.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across Facilities, IT/cybersecurity, program teams, sponsors, and industrial security leadership to maintain mission-enabling compliance.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Top Secret

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Top Secret

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$96,800 - $121,000 - $145,200 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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