Security Specialist Job Profile and Description
Security Specialist jobs may comprise of a large variety of positions to protect property, people, cash and other valuables. Mobile guards patrol different locations by van or work on armoured ‘cash-in-transit’ vans. Security officers/guards work on individual industrial premises, offices or building sites. Some security officers use closed-circuit television (CCTV) or other surveillance equipment.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Conduct pre-search at facilities, and background-checks of people who are likely to have contact with the client.
- Give close quarter protection to children of VIPs and to prevent their kidnapping or assassination.
- Watch for hazards to reduce the risk of accidents.
- Some officers patrol with dogs.
- Mobile security officers/guards protect several different properties. Cash-in-transit officers/guards transport money and valuable items from banks to business premises in an armoured van.
- Armed Security Officers provide close-protection officer to escort VVIPs such as Heads of State, Prime Ministers and members of Senates and Houses of Parliament.
- Conduct pre-search at facilities, and background-checks of people who are likely to have contact with the client.
- Armed Security Officers in civvies (Marshals) protect flights on important International Carriers on routes suspected of terrorism.
- Armed Security Officers provide guard to Embassies, Missions and Consulates in foreign countries.
Skills and Specifications
- Must be honest and alert.
- Must have good observational skills and be reliable.
- Have a Nose for suspicious characters, movements and dangerous situations.
- Be trained in small arms precision shooting and in ‘Unarmed Combat’.
- Should be able to deal with aggressive people when necessary.
- Job requires common sense and a practical approach.
Education and Qualifications
- Minimum College under-graduate.
- Have previous experience in security unit.
- Preferably, be a former Police/Federal Officer or Marshal of the Peace (Retired).
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