Senior Guard

About Paragon Professional Services

Paragon offers a wide range of environmental investigation, consulting, compliance, and remediation services as well as IT solutions, Facility O&M, Materiel Support, Supply and Security to both private- and public-sector clients throughout Alaska and the Continental U.S. Paragon’s experienced professional staff is dedicated to producing high-quality documentation and providing safe field execution to support its clients’ projects in line with local, state and federal guidelines and regulations.

About this position:  Senior Guard                           Location - US Embassy in Moscow, Russia/ Washington, DC 

The Essential Duties and Responsibilities are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed for this position and are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job. Other duties may be assigned. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

 

Applicants will be notified via phone or email within ten (10) business days of submittal.

 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

·         Conduct access control

·         Interact and speak with local nationals that possess Russian documents that must be read and interpreted

 

Required (Minimum Necessary) Qualifications

·         Education Requirements: Minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent with three years’ experience in the military, police or commercial guard force.

·         Level of Experience Requirements Demonstrated command of the local language – Russian. Must have a proficiency of S3/R3

·         Top Secret Clearance (Active)

·         Diplomatic Passport

 

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics

The Senior Guard shall be required to perform duties that may include all or part of the responsibilities set forth below:

 

·         Ability to use a computer including all common office management tools (e.g. Microsoft Office);

·         Oversight of access control points and special function teams

·         Experience with communications and radio use and procedures

·         Ability to operate walk-through metal detectors, hand-held metal detectors, X-ray inspection machines, electronic hydraulic barriers, itemizers, and special monitoring devices

·         Complete written operational and administrative logs.

 

Preferred

·         N/A

Supervisory Responsibilities

·         This position will not have supervisory responsibilities.

DOT Covered/Safety-Sensitive Role Requirements

·         This position is not subject to federal requirements regarding Department of Transportation “safety-sensitive” functions.

 

Necessary Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this role. Employees must always maintain a constant state of mental alertness. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for bending, stooping, sitting, walking or standing for prolonged periods of time; most of time is spent sitting in a comfortable position with frequent opportunity to move about.

 

Work Environment