Armed Security Officer

Description

 For consideration, please submit an application on our website:   Careers — Portland Patrol 

Applicants will be working for a federally contracted company and will be required to go through extensive background checks.

Responsibilities:

• Guard shall perform duties including, but not limited to, presenting a positive image, professionalism, ethical standards, performance expectations, adherence to Post Orders and other industry standard security functions.
• Officers self-initiate contact with persons who are disturbing or involved in criminal behavior or company code violations.
• Officers to provide acces control to the facility.
• Officers shall respond to bomb threats and unattended/suspicious items while on Client’s property in accordance with Threat Management training, SOPM, and Post Orders.

Requirements

• Must be 25 yrs of age
• Clean background history including credit score
• Bachelor's Degree AND/OR Military Graduate OR Police Graduate
• Ideally have 3yrs of law enforcement experience in a patrol capacity. Such as answering uniformed calls for service, responding to disturbances, traffic enforcement, investigating criminal violations and writing crime reports.
• Officers must be skilled in responding to emergency management.
• Officers must have advanced communication skills including de-escalation and other calming techniques.
• Officers must have experience in problem solving, risk assessment, and appropriate use of force
• Successful completion of state of WA armed officer licensing requirements
• A willingness to work outdoors throughout the year
• A stable work history
• Ability to work unsupervised for long periods of time
• Possess communication skills which include understanding, speaking, and writing the English language well.
• Able to write a report of incidents and activities
• Be a team-oriented person
• Ability to work with diverse group
• Report to work on time
• Stay at assigned work locations
• Perform assigned tasks and carry out duties throughout the entire work shift
• Be reliable and truthful when reporting either verbally or written