Supervisory Security Guard (Military Ocean Terminal)

Full Job Description

This is a Direct Hire Authority solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit & appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

About the Position: The Supervisory Security Guard will serves at one of two Military Ocean Terminals (MOT) in the United States.

Guards at these locations must be trained in a variety of security competencies to include patrol boat operations, patrol operations, waterside security and rail security.

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.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) performing supervisory and/or leader duties in relation to the security guard force.

2) Performing human resource duties such as: conducting interviews for applicants, recommending guards for promotions and/or outstanding performance awards.

3) Patrolling restricted and limited access areas. 4) Inspecting personnel.

The OPM Qualification Standard identifies examples of experience, such as work with a Federal, State, municipal, local, or private protective organization that involved the protection of property against such hazards as fire, theft, damage, accident, or trespass; or maintaining order and protecting life.

Such experience must have provided a knowledge of protective systems and techniques.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.

For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone -- no substitution of education for experience is permitted. Major Duties:

• Serve as the DASG Shift Supervisor consisting of subordinate Security Guards and Lead Security Guards who are responsible for providing security measures against theft, fire, accident, pilferage, trespass, sabotage, and espionage.
• Participate in antiterrorism committees and fusion cells to protect critical resources.
• Use a variety of state-of-the-art physical security equipment to protect MOT national security assets from all threats to include waterborne, vehicle-borne, rail-borne and airborne to include drone technology.
• Direct work for subordinate personnel to prevent or control threats, sabotage, hostage-taking, or other criminal activities.
• Serve as Officer of the Guard and Supervisor for guard force shift to provide maximum security measures.
• Conduct the inspection of posts and vehicles in all areas to ensure full compliance with security and safety measures.
• Distribute and balance workload among employees to maintain workflow.
• Perform waterside security patrols of U.S. Military and foreign ships at berth to prevent unauthorized entry.
• Conduct on-the-job training for employees in accordance with established policies and practices.
• Perform administrative actions such as writing reports and completing forms to document incidents.