SAFETY AND SECURITY SPECIALIST
County of Los Angeles
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Job summary
The County of Los Angeles is seeking qualified security specialists to protect departmental facilities and personnel. Responsibilities include access control, screenings, patrols, and incident reporting.
A valid California Guard Card and Exposed Firearm Permit are required, with POST-certified training or equivalent, plus three years of peace officer experience. Applicants must meet high school diploma requirements and obtain appropriate licensure; this is a noncompetitive examination used to
Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
- Three years of prior peace officer experience from a Federal, state, county, or local law enforcement agency.
- Completion of a P.O.S.T. academy or equivalent training with verifiable certificate.
- Current California Guard Card and Exposed Firearm Permit required.
Responsibilities
- Monitors access control systems and responds to alarms and emergency situations.
- Conducts proper screening of all public, internal and external personnel, and visitors.
- Conducts routine patrols to ensure the safety and security of departmental facilities and parameters.
- Maintains accurate and detailed logs, reports, including incident reports.
- May be responsible for creating work schedules for other safety and security specialists, including assessing staffing requirements, coordinating with team members, and ensuring adequate coverage for shifts.
- Performs other safety and security related duties, as assigned.
Skills
Education
Job description
OPEN NON-COMPETITIVE JOB OPPORTUNITY
This is a non-competitive examination pursuant to Civil Service Rule 6.02.
It is merely intended to qualify applicants.
EXAM NUMBER: F2746A-R
APPLICATION FILING PERIOD: Applications may be submitted starting at 8:00 am (PT) on April 25, 2024. Applications will be accepted until the needs of the service have been met. This recruitment is subject to closure without prior notice.
Definition: Performs a variety of tasks related to the security and safety of the Los Angeles County departmental facilities and personnel.
Classification Standards: Positions allocated to this class are non-peace officer positions assigned to provide security in and around departmental facilities and properties and typically report to the on-site supervising officer or manager. Positions are required to carry a firearm while in the performance of their duties. Positions are required to effectively communicate with staff, clients, and the public, and must possess a high degree of professionalism and integrity. Incumbents must distinguish between circumstances in which counseling, admonition, and/or explanation will serve best to maintain a peaceful environment or where the intervention of peace officer personnel is necessary and respond to and/or report situations appropriately.
- Monitors access control systems and responds to alarms and emergency situations.
- Monitors and upholds all departmental policies at all entrance points of the departmental facilities.
- Conducts proper screening of all public, internal and external personnel, and visitors.
- Conducts routine patrols to ensure the safety and security of departmental facilities and parameters.
- Supports departmental staff within the facility, as needed.
- Conducts searches of departmental facilities (internal and external) and vehicles.
- Maintains accurate and detailed logs, reports, including incident reports.
- Communicates effectively with management, staff, clients, and the public.
- May be responsible for creating work schedules for other safety and security specialists, including assessing staffing requirements, coordinating with team members, and ensuring adequate coverage for shifts.
- Performs other safety and security related duties, as assigned.
Graduation from high school or equivalent –AND– Three (3) years of prior peace officer experience* from a Federal, state, county, or local law enforcement agency –AND– Completion of a P.O.S.T. academy or completion of a Federal, state, county, or local law enforcement training academy with a verifiable certificate or transcript –AND– A current, valid California Guard Card –AND– A current, valid California Exposed Firearm Permit at time of appointment.
Graduation from high school or equivalent –AND– Three (3) years of prior peace officer experience* from a Federal, state, county, or local law enforcement agency –AND– Completion of a P.O.S.T. academy or completion of a Federal, state, county, or local law enforcement training academy with a verifiable certificate or transcript –AND– A current, valid California Guard Card –AND– A current, valid California Exposed Firearm Permit at time of appointment.
Graduation from high school or equivalent –AND– Must have three (3) years of prior military experience** –AND– Completion or graduation from a military law enforcement training academy or program that provided instruction on the use of police powers in an armed capacity equivalent to a peace officer, which must include general arrest authority –AND– A certificate or transcript of equivalent training to a peace officer –AND– A current, valid California Guard Card –AND– A current, valid California Exposed Firearm Permit at time of appointment.
A valid California Class C Driver License is required. Successful applicants for positions that require driving must obtain and present a copy of his/her driving record from the California State Department of Motor Vehicles before final appointment. Applicants should not present a copy of their driving history until asked to do so by the hiring department. The County will make an individualized assessment of whether an applicant’s driving history has a direct or adverse relationship with the specific duties of the job. License must not be currently suspended, restricted, or revoked.
4 – Arduous. Positions in this physical class involve frequent heavy lifting over 25 pounds, often combined with bending, twisting, or working above ground on irregular surfaces. It includes positions that occasionally demand extraordinary physical activity such as those in Safety positions.
- Age: Must be 21 years of age at time of filing.
Applicants must be able to perform the essential functions of this classification, with or without a reasonable accommodation.
- Law enforcement experience as a full-time paid peace officer as defined in Section 830.1, 830.2, and 830.3 of the Penal Code of the State of California. For more information please click HERE.
- Military police officer experience in one of the five military branches - Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Coast Guard.
Applicants must provide with their application, a legible copy of their P.O.S.T. or military law enforcement training certificate or transcript. Applications that do not include those required documents will be denied.
Prior to appointment, applicants must provide a copy of their current California Guard Card, and a copy of their current California Exposed Firearm Permit.
If you are unable to attach documents to your application, you must email the Exam Analyst, Channon Sears at csears@hr.lacounty.gov within 15 calendar days of filing online. Please include the exam number and the exam title; attachments must be a PDF or JPEG and no larger than 5MB per attachment.
- Certificate or official transcript from a P.O.S.T. academy, an equivalent Federal, state, county, or local law enforcement training academy, or a military law enforcement training academy.
This is a noncompetitive examination. This examination is intended to merely qualify applicants. Applicants will be placed on an eligible register without indication of relative standing in the examination.
Applications will be processed on an "as received" basis and promulgated to the eligible register accordingly. The appointing power may appoint any one of the names on the appropriate list, except a person without Veteran's credit may not be appointed if there are three or more names on the list of persons entitled to Veteran's credit. The names of candidates who qualify will be added to the eligible register for a period of twelve (12) months from the date of promulgation.
No person may compete in this examination more than once every twelve (12) months.
Appointees may be required to work any shift, including evenings, nights, weekends and holidays. Positions may include full-time, part-time, temporary, and/or on call, as needed.
The resulting eligible register for this examination will be used to fill vacancies in the Probation Department as they occur.
The County of Los Angeles is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to non-discrimination in the County workforce, regardless of age (40 and over); ancestry; color; ethnicity; religious creed; protected family or medical leave status; disability; marital status; medical condition; genetic information; military and veteran status; national origin; race; sex; gender; sexual orientation; or any other characteristic protected by State or federal law. For more information, please visit: https://employee.hr.lacounty.gov/eeo-programs/.
The County of Los Angeles complies with all federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants and employees with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application process, please contact the testing accommodation coordinator listed on the job posting. Hearing impaired applicants with telephone teletype equipment may leave messages by calling the teletype phone number on the job posting. For more information on accommodations, please visit: https://hr.lacounty.gov/accessibility/.
The County of Los Angeles is a Fair Chance employer. Except as otherwise permissible under applicable laws, you will not be asked to provide information about conviction history unless you receive a conditional offer of employment. The County will make an individualized assessment of whether your conviction history has a direct and adverse relationship with the specific duties of the job, and will also consider potential mitigating factors, which may include, but is not limited to, evidence and extent of rehabilitation, recency of the offense(s), and age at the time of the offense(s). Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with County Fair Chance Policies and the Fair Chance Act (Gov. Code Section 12952).
Final appointment is contingent upon verification of U.S. citizenship or the right to work in the United States.
Resources to help current and prospective employees plan a career with Los Angeles County are available. To explore career paths to and from nearly all job titles, please visit our interactive Career PathFinder application at http://career-pathfinder.hr.lacounty.gov.
Pursuant to the County Charter and County policy, in all open competitive examinations (i.e., examinations open to everyone), the County of Los Angeles will add a credit of 10 percent of the total credits specified for such examination to the final passing score of an honorably discharged veteran, as well as the spouse of a deceased or disabled veteran, who served in the Armed Forces of the United States under specific conditions. For more information on veteran’s credit, please visit: https://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/dhr/205102_PPG_115.pdf
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