Jobs at Saps in South Africa

REGIONAL ARMOURY MANAGER

REPORTING TO: NATIONAL ARMOURY MANAGER

The Regional Armoury Manager is responsible for ensuring all Armoury operations on a Regional level are in compliance with the Firearm control act as well as driving the strategic objectives of the Armoury in achieving business goals.

Minimum Requirements:

• 5years experience in Middle management position
• 10 years experience in security industry
• Proven management role on a national level preferable
• PSIRA A registered
• Management NQF 5

Key Performance Areas: (not totally inclusive):

• Manage all firearm expenses on a Regional level also ensuring cost effectiveness
• Daily recon of all regional SAPS licenses
• Management reports with regards to FAMS
• Managing and overseeing the physical verification of firearms in the region
• Writing and submitting of motivation letters to SAPS when required
• Compile and submit firearm incident reports for region
• Investigate any incidents that occur
• Reporting of all incidents to National Armory
• Escalating of all incidents as required
• Recommend disciplinary actions to incidents
• Maintain all regional firearms
• Destroy any confidential information safely and securely
• Distribution of all RF tags in the region
• Attend hearings as and when needed
• Set up and sign off duty roster for branch armoury controllers
• Conduct training and presentations for all branches as and when required
• Maintaining FAMS
• Ammunition control in region branches
• Capture and update FAMS system everyday with regards to armed employee details including: New firearm allocation, firearm movement, firearm training, firearm incidents, firearm licenses (renewed and new)
• Compile and distribute FAMS weekly reports and send to branches
• Compile and distribute FAMS monthly report to regional executive management
• Continuously seek to improve and streamline various processes of the Armoury
• Comply with group firearms policies and limits of authority.
• Conduct weekly/monthly site inspections
• Conduct weekly/monthly site audits
• Conduct regular monthly meetings
• Ensure all firearms and armoured/war vehicles comply with necessary legislation and regulations when firearms are transported
• Ensure compliance of all firearm custodians
• Check and ensure compliance of asset exception report
• Conduct Risk Assessment on all branches armed sites on a weekly/monthly basis, also new sites
• Create individual and team ownership for decisions, plans and strategies by collaborating with and empowering team members.
• Integrate and assign resources across the payroll function through effective workforce planning, to ensure efficient work streams.
• Effectively manage performance and discipline within the team in order to ensure business objectives are achieved.
• Provide clear leadership, promote and foster a team culture consistent with group values.
• Motivate, coach, mentor and develop direct reports, ensuring the continuous development of team, creating an organization-wide learning enabled environment.
• Embrace diversity and drive the Employment Equity strategy within functional area.
• Engage with various stakeholders across the business to drive communication and collaboration.
• Manage the succession planning process within area of responsibility.
• Represent FSG at all supplier meetings
• Ensure FSG offers the best partnerships with suppliers
• Maintain excellent supplier relationships
• Liase with SAPS on a daily basis and build good relationships with South African authorities
• Represent FSG in court in the case of incident hearings
• Write motivations for the SAPS for any new requirements
• Liase with SAPS for stolen/Robbed firearms
• Liase with SAPS regarding found firearms
• Liase with gunsmiths for the ordering of new firearms, cleaning, ammunition requirements as well as collecting firearms from police stations.
• Correspond with SAPS when any incident occurs and work together with legal department to ensure the assets of the business stays protected
• Supervise and manage branch personnel deliverables and drive performance to reach business objectives
• Conduct quarterly polygraph tests for firearms controllers in region
• Send out reminders of best practice to all branches Firearm scanning and
• Act as contact person for all queries that needs to be escalated to Executive management
• Any Ad Hoc duties as requested by Executive Management

Other personality attributes:

• Providing Leadership
• Driving Success
• Giving Support
• Structuring Tasks
• Adjusting to Change
• Communicating Information
• Building Relationships
• Showing Resilience
• Evaluating Problems
• Investigating Issues
• Creating Innovation
• Processing details

Core Competencies:

• Self-development
• Communication skills
• Customer focus
• Teamwork

We reserve the right not to make an appointment to any advertised position. Whilst preference is always given to existing employees the choice made is purely on merit, historically disadvantaged candidates and black female candidates are encouraged and supported in the FSG team. Whilst black female candidates will be given priority as per our transformation policy subject to the above criteria.

Fidelity Services Group (Pty) Ltd supports global fair practice and business ethics on continuous development of our human capital as the key resource to our success in the markets in which we participate.

Should you not be contacted regarding this position within 10 working days from the closing date, please regard your application as unsuccessful