Facilities Security Officer
MetreaAbout the role
Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas-including airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. Wherever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability-designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation. With operators and engi-neers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field-what we call connecting design with effect.
Metrea's solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.
This role sits within the Special Air Missions Group - US.
Special Air Missions Group - US (SAM - US) is responsible for developing and delivering Me-trea's ISR, Special Mobility, and Aerial Firefighting (AFF) capabilities. SAM oversees the integra-tion of new mission systems, ensuring operational readiness across specialized aviation opera-tions. It manages fleet maintenance, regulatory compliance, and strategic partnerships to en-hance mission effectiveness. By consolidating expertise and infrastructure, SAM - US ensures Metrea's airborne capabilities remain adaptable and mission-ready across dynamic opera-tional environments.
Position Summary
As the Facility Security Officer (FSO), you will use your knowledge, skills, and abilities to support 24/7 deployed Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR), and Special Mission Aviation ac-tivities across the globe. You will enable hundreds of teammates to operate at more than a dozen secure locations worldwide. You will serve as a first line of defense for Operations Security (OPSEC), Information Security (INFOSEC), Personnel Security (PERSEC), and Industrial Security, ensuring teammates have the facilities, tactics, tools, and training required to operate in highly sensitive, classified, and compartmentalized environments
You will be responsible for enforcing applicable policies and procedures and ensuring compli-ance with the National Industrial Security Program (NISP), National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM), Special Security Agreement (SSA), Department of Defense Manual (DoDM) 5200.01 Volumes 1-4, DoD 5220.22-M, DoD 8500.01, and other federal security regulations.
This role performs tasks to ensure the authorized security posture is maintained. It implements and monitors security processes in accordance with NISPOM and Department of Defense (DoD) Information Security requirements, audits information system security plans and procedures, and ensures physical security of the site in accordance with company policies and local installation requirements.
What You'll Do
- Assist in creating, updating, and maintaining procedures and plans in accordance with DoD, NISPOM, and Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) directives. Coordi-nate with the Industrial Security Representative (ISR) when required for approvals and guid-ance.
- Conduct assessments of physical, industrial, personnel, and operational security controls in accordance with established plans and procedures.
- Examine potential physical security violations for breaches of policy or procedure; assess im-pact; preserve evidence; and report through appropriate channels as required.
- Conduct scheduled inspections of systems and facilities that process classified information.
- Operate access control and alarm systems and respond to alarms as required.
- Maintain visitor control logs and create and assign appropriate visitor badges.
- Maintain and audit all logs and records associated with classified operations procedures.
- Perform as Assistant Communications Security (COMSEC) Manager. Maintain 100% inven-tory through safeguarding, hand receipts, and Defense Information Systems for Security (DIAS) accounts. Report inventory and discrepancies to the National Security Agency (NSA) Contracting Officer Representative (COR).
- Assist in originating, delivering, and documenting security briefings to program personnel, including ensuring each user signs acknowledgement of responsibility for security and com-pletion of required training.
- Maintain and manage cage code activities, including Defense Information System for Secu-rity (DISS), National Background Investigation Services (NBIS), and National Industrial Secu-rity System (NISS)
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