Security Guard - Intermittent G00 Civic Center

Job Title

Security Officer

Major Duties and Responsibilities

Patrols assigned areas; reports problems. Inspects and secures offices and buildings at the end of the day; opens doors at the beginning of the event day and secures all building and stairwell doors.

Maintains crowd control for special events.

Assists visitors with general information and directions.

Operates metal detectors as required.

Assists employees with automobile problems; may assist with loading and unloading equipment, inventory, or other packages.

Raises and lowers flags.

Provides reports as needed.

May be assigned as security to performers or promoters for shows.

Monitors parking lot and performers' buses to ensure the area is secure.

Maintains security and crowd control in front of the stage.

Carries out a continuous effort to improve operations and work processes; and works cooperatively and jointly to provide continuous improvement and customer-driven service.

Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Knowledge of safety and security procedures for assigned areas and of state and local laws, rules, and regulations relating to areas of assignment.

Skill in controlling crowds of people; observation of people and situations.

Skill in the operation of a two-way radio communication system.

Skill in oral and written communication.

Minimum Educational and Training Requirements

Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with the completion of specialized training in the occupational field, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education.

Physical Requirements

The work is typically performed while intermittently sitting, standing, stooping, bending, crouching, or walking. The employee occasionally lifts light and heavy objects, climbs ladders, and uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Climbing – ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.
• Crawling – moving about on hands, knees, or hands, feet.
• Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
• Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
• Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
• Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
• Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Standing – for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
• Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.
• Talking 2 – shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
• Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
• Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
• Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.
• Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
• Visual Acuity 5 -close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.
• Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.

The employee occasionally lifts light and heavy objects, uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity, and distinguishes between shades of color. The work is typically performed in an office, library, or computer room.