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POSITION SPECIFICS​

The Penn State University Police and Public Safety Department is responsible for protecting and serving more than 100,000 students, employees as well as visitors at 22 campuses located throughout Pennsylvania. We have a non-sworn, armed, opportunity within the Department of Defense cleared facilities responsible for carrying out the functions of protection of sensitive materials and property, employee safety, preliminary security investigative work and other related duties at the University’s Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) facilities. We are searching for an evening/night shift Security Supervisor to join our team.

The Assistant Security Supervisor assists with coordinating the day-to-day operations, scheduling and administration regarding safety and security to include trust with maintaining strict governed Department of Defense (DoD) protocols in direct support of all the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) Facilities. This position will help in the supervision of the Armed Public Safety Officers (APSO) employees and report directly to the Senior Security Supervisor.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Assist with providing effective leadership, counseling, and direction to the reporting APSO team.
• Coordinate assigned staff, including scheduling, delegating duties and responsibilities, training, employee relations, and performance evaluations.
• Administer training plans for the unit. Ensuring weapons and range qualifications, Act 235 certification and recertifications, annual certification requirements, required trainings per UPPS department, university, as well as Department of Defense security clearance requirements.
• Assist with reviewing video Surveillance systems and alarm, access controls and work closely ARL Security Manager to assure systems are operating as intended.
• Perform the duties of an APSO, only as needed
• Work as a liaison between ARL Security, Federal Agencies, and University Police and Public Safety

Successful candidates will possess: 

• Attention to detail and strong organizational skills are vital.
• Capacity to work cooperatively with various levels of faculty, staff, students, and outside agencies.
• Ability to work with a wide variety of diverse cultur