Director, Corporate Security and Crisis Management

About Us

Ameren is a leader in the energy industry, and our transformation toward more clean, renewable energy is also  transforming other industries and infrastructure in our communities.  As a regional company serving local customers, we not only serve our communities, we're a part of them. This isn't just a job. At Ameren, we invest in you, so you can power the quality of life you want.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is one of the core values that guides us in everything we do. We are committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that brings diverse perspectives to every area of our business.

Our benefits include:

• Medical coverage on date of hire

• 100% employer paid cash balance pension plan

• 401(k) with company match fully vested on date of hire

• Long Term Incentive Plan

• Option to enroll in Deferred Compensation

• Minimum of 15 days paid vacation and 12 paid holidays

• Paid parental leave and family caregiver leave

Visit our Benefits & Perks Page for more information on benefits provided to regular full-time employees. ​

About Ameren Services (B&CS)

Ameren Services provides administrative support and services to Ameren Corporation and its operating companies, subsidiaries and affiliates. Ameren Services includes a wide range of skill sets and roles, from finance and legal experts to digital and cyber specialists, plus those charged with ensuring environmental compliance and operational safety. Together, we help execute a strategy that enables Ameren to deliver superior long-term value to customers, shareholders and the environment.

About The Position

The Director, Corporate Security and Crisis Management is responsible for overseeing security throughout the Ameren Corporation to include, but not limited to, training, executive protection, customer threat assessments, employee/contractor/visitor badging and regulatory and corporate policy violation investigations as well as overseeing an all-hazards crisis management approach to risk identification and mitigation, emergency preparedness and public partnerships organization. This position ensures an adequate level of preparedness across all staff in their assigned emergency role, ensures the completion of preparedness activities across business segments, provides guidance/direction on resource requirements and resource movement during an event, and monitors potential and actual man-made and natural disasters that may impact the organization.  The Director is also the liaison to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies as well as local and state Office of Emergency Management, Illinois and Missouri Public Utilities Commissions, and other stakeholders and organizations.

Key responsibilities include:

Corporate Security

• Provide employees 24/7 physical security throughout the Ameren Corporation as well as customer threat assessment.

• Provide direct leadership to four (4) supervisors and oversee a team of seven (7) investigators, an administrative assistant and approximately 150 security officers.

• Manage an operating budget of over $10M.

• Coordinate domestic and international travel and security for the Senior Leadership Team.

• Oversee the installation, testing and maintenance of over 7,000 electronic devices (alarms, cameras, card access readers, etc.) at over 300 Ameren facilities.

• Maintain compliance with increasingly stringent federal regulatory physical security requirements across Ameren's electric and gas infrastructure. 

• Design security plans, organize drills and network with industry peers to integrate best practices for security and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) compliance.

• Provide training to employees and contractors to promote security and ensure compliance with regulatory standards which are ever changing.

• Ensure the creation and annual review and update of site-specific security plans for Ameren facilities.

• Compile intelligence derived from monitoring social media sites and nurture relationships with many different informational sources from the private and public sector, which keeps Ameren informed on terrorism threats and planned demonstrations from myriad groups.

• Liaise with local, state and federal agencies and organizations to develop and nurture relationships to mutually benefit the community and Ameren.