Security Specialist

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• At least three years of experience in physical security, OPSEC, and Antiterrorism/Force Protection within the past five years.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and evaluating security policies, procedures, training, access controls, and incident-response processes.
• Knowledge of protecting classified or sensitive information, personnel, facilities, operations, property, and material.
• Ability to analyze security issues, advise leadership, document findings, and manage corrective actions.
• Strong judgment, discretion, written communication, briefing, training, and stakeholder-coordination skills.

SECURITY, SUITABILITY, AND ACCESS REQUIREMENTS

• Must be eligible for access to a DoD installation and successfully complete the Government-required Moderate Risk Personnel Security Investigation and suitability process for a public trust or sensitive position.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD CAC, installation identification badge, PKI token, controlled/restricted-area access, and Government-system access, as applicable.
• If assigned classified duties, must complete required nondisclosure, briefing, debriefing, and clearance documentation before handling classified information.
• Must be eligible for minimum IT II access, including a favorably adjudicated T3 investigation, when using Government systems beyond data entry.
• Must safeguard classified information, CUI, proprietary information, Government systems, facilities, property, and mission data and comply with CMMC and all DoD, DLA, and installation security requirements.
• Must complete and help administer initial and recurring security training, including CUI, AT/FP, OPSEC, Counterintelligence, INFOSEC, and CTIP.

KEY PERSONNEL AVAILABILITY REQUIREMENT

• As designated Key Personnel, the employee must be available, upon notification, to meet Government personnel on-site within one hour during normal duty hours and within two hours outside normal duty hours, unless in an approved excused-absence status. The position may also require extended hours, alternate shifts, emergency response, continuity operations, holiday on-call support, and work during heightened force-protection conditions.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience supporting DoD, DLA, military-installation, industrial-security, or Federal security programs.
• Experience with personnel security, CAC/access processing, visitor control, key and lock control, CUI, NISPOM-related activities, vulnerability assessments, or security inspections.
• Prior experience serving as a security manager, assistant Facility Security Officer, or comparable role.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement