Profession security manager

Security managers ensure security for people, such as customers and employees, and company’s assets either fixed, movable, machines, vehicles, and real state. They ensure safety and security by enforcing security policies, keeping track of different events, implementing security protocols, creating emergency response procedures, conducting security evaluations, and supervising security staff members.  

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Personality Type

• Enterprising / Artistic
• Enterprising / Conventional
• Enterprising / Investigative

Knowledge

• Security regulations

  The body of regulations, legal procedures and policies regarding security and safety management.

• Organisational resilience

  The strategies, methods and techniques that increase the organisation's capacity to protect and sustain the services and operations that fulfil the organisational mission and create lasting values by effectively addressing the combined issues of security, preparedness, risk and disaster recovery.

• Legal use-of-force

  The characteristics of the use-of-force, which is a legal doctrine employed by police and army forces, to regulate acts of violence during interventions. Use-of-force is ought to balance security needs with ethical concerns for the rights and well-being of intruders or suspects.

• Corporate social responsibility

  The handling or managing of business processes in a responsible and ethical manner considering the economic responsibility towards shareholders as equally important as the responsibility towards environmental and social stakeholders.

• Internal risk management policy

  The internal risk management policies that identify, assess and prioritise risks in an IT environment. The methods used to minimise, monitor and control the possibility and the impact of disastrous events that affect the reaching of business goals.

• Security threats

  Types of threats to public and private security such as unauthorised entry, aggressive behaviour, molestation, robbery, theft, assault, kidnapping, murder and public demonstration.

Skills

• Manage logistics

  Create logistic framework for transporting goods to customers and for receiving returns, execute and follow up the logistics processes and guidelines.

• Follow company standards

  Lead and manage according to the organisation's code of conduct.

• Manage staff

  Manage employees and subordinates, working in a team or individually, to maximise their performance and contribution. Schedule their work and activities, give instructions, motivate and direct the workers to meet the company objectives. Monitor and measure how an employee undertakes their responsibilities and how well these activities are executed. Identify areas for improvement and make suggestions to achieve this. Lead a group of people to help them achieve goals and maintain an effective working relationship among staff.

• Manage security equipment

  Oversee and conduct inventory of security tools and equipment.

• Maintain incident reporting records

  Keep a system to record details of unusual events that occur at the facility, such as job-related injuries.

• Strive for company growth

  Develop strategies and plans aiming at achieving a sustained company growth, be the company self-owned or somebody else's. Strive with actions to increase revenues and positive cash flows.

• Lead disaster recovery exercises

  Head exercises which educate people on what to do in case of an unforeseen disastrous event in the functioning or security of ICT systems, such as on recovery of data, protection of identity and information and which steps to take in order to prevent further problems.

• Handle surveillance equipment

  Monitor surveillance equipment to observe what people are doing in a given area and ensure their safety.

• Ensure equipment availability

  Ensure that the necessary equipment is provided, ready and available for use before start of procedures.

• Plan health and safety procedures

  Set up procedures for maintaining and improving health and safety in the workplace.

• Write security reports

  Compile data on inspections, patrols and security incidents into a report for management purposes.

• Establish site security routines

  Set up security routines on site.

• Manage budgets

  Plan, monitor and report on the budget.

• Liaise with managers

  Liaise with managers of other departments ensuring effective service and communication, i.e. sales, planning, purchasing, trading, distribution and technical.

• Ensure equipment maintenance

  Ensure that the equipment required for operations is regularly checked for faults, that routine maintenance tasks are performed, and that repairs are scheduled and performed in the case of damage or flaws.

• Manage supplies

  Monitor and control the flow of supplies that includes the purchase, storage and movement of the required quality of raw materials, and also work-in-progress inventory. Manage supply chain activities and synchronise supply with demand of production and customer.

• Manage disaster recovery plans

  Prepare, test and execute, when necessary, a plan of action to retrieve or compensate lost information system data.

• Manage the security team

  Plan, organise and schedule work, equipment and procedures to be followed for the security staff under your supervision.

• Establish daily priorities

  Establish daily priorities for staff personnel. Effectively deal with multi-task workload.

• Investigate security issues

  Look out for information and evidence revolving around security and safety issues in order to analyse possible threats, track incidents, and improve security procedures.

• Oversee planning of security systems

  Monitor the selection and installation of security systems such as fire protection and soundproofing equipment and make sure it is sufficiently efficient and compliant with current legislation.

• Supervise daily information operations

  Direct daily operations of different units. Coordinate program/project activities to assure the respect of costs and time.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB