Our client, a highly respected New York based Horse Racing Company, is seeking a Security Manager to join its team on a permanent basis.
The Security Manager is responsible for ensuring the safety and security of our facilities, employees, racing participants and visitors. This position manages and provides oversight of security personnel (union & non-union). In addition, this individual is responsible for the development, implementation, and administration of all security protocols and training. The role responsibilities also include an ability to identify physical security deficiencies and proactively recommend a mitigation strategy to close identified gaps.
Essential Functions include but are not limited to:
- Supervises, monitors, and evaluates all direct reports and security personnel to ensure they successfully perform routine daily, weekly, and periodic duties.
- Establishes and implements schedules and work assignments for all direct reports and security personnel. Proactively monitors and adjusts schedules, as possible, to accommodate holidays, weather conditions, and call-out trends to ensure security standards are met as well as overtime performance standards are maintained through effective scheduling.
- Maintains attendance, behavior, and performance standards by taking timely corrective measures for unsatisfactory performance, inappropriate behavior, lateness, excessive callouts, and no call/no show occasions, etc.
- Interfaces with labor entities to ensure positive labor relations and strict adherence to union contracts.
- Reviews all incidents with responding officers to ensure proper documentation of all incidents on the organization properties.
- Ensures qualified candidates are continuously recruited and interviewed by supporting recruiter(s) in interviewing new hires when necessary, ensuring compliance with licensing, and by providing training and schedules immediately upon officers’ completion of onboarding.
- Organizes and performs daily patrols and security checks through the facilities.
- Ensures all members of the Security Department are highly proficient with all policies and values standards of the organization; understand their responsibilities with respect to discrimination, harassment, and profiling; and know how to carry out their responsibilities in a manner that actively values equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- Develop, update, and implement security policies and procedures in line with industry best practices and regulatory requirements by regularly conducting detailed internal assessments.
- Manages access control procedures and projects (ID’s); assist in monitoring building entry through the enterprise.
- Attention to communication - ensures that information is passed on to others who should be kept informed.
- Perform frequent walk-throughs to inspect operations at all facilities, including all major building systems.
- Ensures all security officers are trained in all security-related software and on the time and attendance recording system.
- Maintains professional appearance and behavior.
- Produces weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual progress reports.
Other Duties:
- This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.
- The organization may revise this job description from time to time as business needs require.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree, Security Management, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5-10 years of experience in a leadership role, security, preferably in a corporate environment or multi-facility operations.
- Extensive knowledge of security protocols, incident investigation, surveillance systems, and emergency response procedures
- Must maintain a valid Driver’s License
- Previous experience in a union environment
- Willingness to work all tours as assigned which involves midnights, weekends, holidays, both at Saratoga/Aqueduct/Belmont.
Supervision:
Does this job holder supervise the activities of any other personnel on a regular basis? yes
Knowledge Required:
- Strong computer skills, including proficiency in the use of the internet, recruitment software, email, word processing, database programs and specialized software systems
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to gather and critically evaluate information and prepare written documents that clearly and concisely identify the issues presented and their proposed resolution
- Proficient in MS Office applications, such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent organizational, collaboration and interpersonal skills
- Strong reasoning competence to investigate, analyze and draw appropriate conclusions
- Five years of operational security experience with multi-facility operations
- Ability to conduct training in all areas associated with Security and Crisis Management