Amentum

This is a full-time Service Contract (SCA) position.

Join our team of 500+ front-line security professionals ensuring that our nation’s most precious assets are protected. As a physical security specialist, you will be provided with exceptional training and growth opportunities while playing a critical role in the workplace and mission security for a US intelligence community customer.

Are you Vigilant, Trustworthy and Patient?

If security is important to you, keep reading. These are the foundational qualities we are looking for in our Protection Specialists!

A Protection Specialist, Facilities Security you will be providing Security Zone Coverage:

• Protection Specialist supporting Security Zone Coverage will mainly be working indoors.
• Integral member of the operations and maintenance team.
• Establishes a zone to afford freedom of movement to visiting personnel.

Responsibilities:

• Closely observing activities of individuals working and/or visiting the customer facilities.
• Provide a safe and secure environment in facilities where assigned.
• Supporting requirements that will require standing or walking 80% to 90% of each shift.
• Must maintain a constant state of alertness.
• Ensure subjects do not enter any areas where they are not authorized, nor where they do not have a valid reason for entering.
• Provide written reports of incidents and security violations
• Maintain a security logbook of site activities.

Qualifications:

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must possess a Secret clearance or higher at time of application.
• Must submit and remain in a clearance pipeline to obtain a TS clearance.
• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Ability to sit for long periods of time while remaining alert and attentive.
• Possess the visual acuity to observe the activities of other individuals from a moderate distance. This position requires visual observation of personnel working or visiting customer facilities.
• Must successfully complete Virginia DCJS Unarmed Security Officer training within 90 days of being hired.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Professional oral and written communications skills.
• Must be able to meet the physical requirements of this position.

Physical Requirements:

• Able to stand for 8-12 hours per day.
• Able to walk on uneven surfaces and safely navigate an active construction site with debris and other trip hazards on the floor at all times.
• Must be able to climb 5 flights of stairs multiple times within an 8-12 hour work shift.
• Must be able to lift 25 pounds / 10 Kilograms.

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Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.

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