Provide access control, motor and foot patrols, monitor vessels/vehicles, supervise command center communications and video surveillance, log incidents, and support emergency response while delivering excellent customer service.
Summary
The Yard is a 300-acre waterfront campus that's home to 550+ businesses employing more than 11,000 people. Security Officers ensure the safety and security of visitors, tenants, and employees while providing excellent customer service at various posts throughout the Navy Yard.
Areas of Responsibility
Access Control
- Be governed by, and demonstrate, Courtesy, Professionalism, & Respect during all assignments and interactions
- Stay alert to conditions requiring attention. Immediately report any crime, accident, hazard, or unusual activity
- Maintain activity log and complete daily reports
Motor Patrol
- Conduct mounted and dismounted patrols of BNYDC areas
- Enforce traffic rules, monitor illegal dumping
- Assist the Sergeant with relaying equipment and supplies to Officers on posts
- Monitor vessels at piers and dry docks
- Monitor vehicles parked at building loading docks
- Assist in directing or escorting emergency response vehicles
Command Center
- Supervise radio/communications checks with all posts following each shift change over
- Communicate incidents or environmental information and activity that is observable via video surveillance
- Record all reports received by guard posts, radio, or telephone in the security database
- Monitor emergency services and marine base stations, inform appropriate gate or post of approaching emergency vehicles/vessels
- Track vessels by piers and dry docks. Report their name, ship type, general cargo type, arrival and departure times
- Report degraded or interrupted video surveillance, access control, or communications
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned
The duties and responsibilities outlined above are not intended to limit specific duties and responsibilities of this position and may be modified as needed. It is not intended to limit in any way the authority of supervisors to assign, direct, or oversee the work of employees under their supervision.
Required Skills and Abilities
- Ability to demonstrate excellent customer service during all interactions with employees, tenants, visitors, etc.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in-person, over radio, via written reports, etc.
- Strong punctuality and time management skills. Must be able to report to your shift/assigned post on time
- Proficiency with computers, radios, and video surveillance systems
- 8-hour & 16 hour Security Training Certificates required
- Valid Security License required
- Valid Driver’s License required
Preferred:
- Introduction to Radio Communications (LET540), Texas A&M Engineering Extension (or equivalent) (within three months)
- Certificate of Fitness F-01 Citywide Fire Guard for Impairment, City of New York (within three months)
- Certificate of Fitness F-04 for Temporary Indoor/ Outdoor Place of Assembly Safety Personnel (within three months)
- CPR / Basic First Aid /AED Training, American Red Cross or American Heart Association (within six months)
- Public Safety Telecommunicator (PST) (LET543), Texas A&M Engineering Extension or APCO International (or equivalent) (within one year)
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation New York, New York, USA Office
New York, NY, United States
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