Armed Security Officer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Immediately respond by moving towards shots fired to effectively neutralize the threat in the event of an active shooter.
• Follows all assigned post orders, both general and specific.
• Applies the use of force rules based on the situation.
• Employs graduated use of force to ensure that only that force which is necessary to subdue or detain is used.
• Patrols, periodically, buildings and grounds of industrial plant or commercial establishment, docks, logging camp area, or work site.
• Patrols lobbies, corridors, and public rooms, confers with management, interviews guests and employees, and interrogates persons to detect infringements and investigate disturbances, complaints, thefts, vandalisms, and accidents.
• Patrols public areas to detect fires, unsafe conditions, and missing or inoperative safety equipment.
• Examines doors, windows, and gates to determine that they are secure.
• Performs and sets thermostatic controls to maintain specified temperature in buildings or cold storage rooms.
• Inspects equipment and machinery to ascertain if tampering has occurred.
• Registers at watch stations to record time of inspection trips.
• Inspects assigned areas and records data such as property damage, unusual occurrences, and malfunctioning of machinery or equipment, for use of supervisory staff.
• Warns violators of rule infractions, such as loitering, smoking, or carrying forbidden articles, and apprehends or expels persons engaging in suspicious or criminal acts.
• Notifies staff of presence of persons with questionable reputations.
• Permits authorized persons and regulates vehicle/pedestrian traffic at plant entrance to maintain orderly flow.
• Drives radio equipped vehicle through client's establishment, checks alarm and locates sources of alarm.
• Sounds alarm or calls police or fire department by telephone in case of fire or presence of unauthorized persons.
• Affords assistance to management and enforcement officers in emergency situations.
• Contacts supervisor by radio or telephone to report irregularities and obtain further instructions.
• Writes investigation and automobile usage reports.

  Pay

  $19.20—$19.20 USD

  Benefits

  We offer every employee — from executive managers to administrative support to security professionals — unique and generous benefits, as well as opportunities for career growth.

  Application

  If you're ready to embark on a meaningful career with one of the nation's most dynamic and fastest growing security companies, apply with Walden Security today.