Security & Dispatch Center Specialist (Rotating Shifts)

Veterans Health Administration; Erie (Erie County); On-site; USD 41,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Veterans Health Administration, located at the Erie VA Medical Center, seeks a Security Assistant to monitor physical security equipment and systems in a federal police environment.

Responsibilities include alarm monitoring, access control, emergency communications, and dispatch coordination. The role requires handling logs, keys, badges, and reports, with a compressed schedule including nights and weekends.

Qualifications

• Transcript must accompany the application.
• Foreign education must include a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with the transcript.

Responsibilities

• Monitors and responds to alarms; traces access patterns, programming, assigns or removes user permissions, and remotely opens and secures doors during routine and emergency operations.
• Determines when to dispatch law enforcement or other personnel; maintains radio/alarm activity records/logs; issues and retrieves keys and IDs; maintains accountability of badges and logs.
• Monitors and receives routine and emergency calls; coordinates with law enforcement; operates communications equipment and computer systems to support operations.
• Performs system checks on dispatch center equipment; troubleshoots issues; conducts inventory and logs; uses NCIC to access sensitive information.
• Conducts vehicle registration tasks and issues decals/permits; compiles reports related to events in the police control center.

Job description

Veterans Health Administration, located at the Erie VA Medical Center, seeks a Security Assistant to monitor physical security equipment and systems in a federal police environment.

Responsibilities include alarm monitoring, access control, emergency communications, and dispatch coordination. The role requires handling logs, keys, badges, and reports, with a compressed schedule including nights and weekends.