PHYSICAL SECURITY SPECIALIST
Air National Guard Units
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Security Guard
Army Tank-Automotive and Armament Command (TACOM)
Department of the Army
Location
Watervliet, New York
Salary
$46,848 - $60,902
per year
Type
Closes
March 24, 2026
GS-5 Pay Grade
Base salary range: $33,878 - $44,042
Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience. Bachelor's degree.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This job is for a security guard at a historic U.S.
Army manufacturing site in New York, where you'll check IDs, manage who enters the facility, and help with visitor services while keeping things safe and organized.
It's a great fit for someone with prior experience in security or customer-facing roles who stays calm under pressure and enjoys working independently.
No advanced degree is needed, just one year of relevant hands-on experience.
Key Requirements
- One year of specialized experience controlling access for vehicles, visitors, and pedestrians
- Experience monitoring entry systems and providing customer service to diverse groups like visitors, employees, and contractors
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to work independently with little supervision
- Skills in screening personnel, recording visitor information, and regulating traffic
- Capability to respond to incidents, including traffic control and initial emergency aid
- Familiarity with validating entry requests using electronic systems
Full Job Description
This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Domestic Defense Industrial Base (DIB) & MRTFB in DoD to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.
About the Position: The Watervliet Arsenal is an Army-owned and -operated manufacturing center located in New York.
It is the oldest, continuously active arsenal in the United States having begun operations in 1813.
Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).
You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.
Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: (1) Controlling access of vehicles, visitors and/or pedestrians into a facility; (2) Monitoring systems for visitor entry into a facility; and (3) Providing professional customer service to a broad range of individuals such as: visitors, employees, and/or contractors.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-05). Major Duties:
- Independently perform, with little or no supervision, installation access control for pedestrians and vehicles
- Validate entry requests through the use of ePACS and grants access to persons and vehicles with appropriate authorizations
- Initial point of contact for the installation’s visitors which may include foreign nationals, government agents, elective officials, media and VIPs
- Record visitor information and purpose of visit
- Grant access to persons, denies entry or arranges for escorts, as appropriate
- Perform Visitor Control Center (VCC) duties
- Screen all employees, visitors, consultants, foreign nationals, government agents, elective officials, media representatives, VIPs and contractor personnel daily
- Serve as a member of the installation’s overall security response capability during actual or simulated incidents
- Regulate pedestrian and vehicular traffic to prevent accidents and to ease congestion and parking problems
- Assist in providing initial response and traffic control for vehicular accidents, which may include providing first aid, requesting appropriate emergency responses, securing the scene and identifying witnesses
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