Physical Security Specialist

Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.com for more details.

Responsibilities:

• Provides advanced technical solutions to solve for a wide range of physical security and security service's needs across the organization.
• Independently determines and develops project plans for new or expanding physical security requirements.
• Maintains and manages physical security policies, access control procedures and the credentialing requirements, specific to the organization's facilities.
• Collaborates with management and government representatives to provide appropriate and timely security support.
• Provides updates or troubleshooting needs as necessary, for the organization's enterprise-wide Access Control System.
• Interfaces with outsourced security vendors and Government agency representatives specific to compliance inspections, investigating incidents, or coordinating walk-thru's.
• Directly involved with facility access controls and management processes, to include clearance verifications and badge issuances and tracking procedures.
• Issuing employee badges, programing access cards, and resetting PINs, as necessary.
• Programing User codes as needed for company-managed intrusion detection systems.
• Serves as a primary POC for validating specific PII for new employees at the onboarding stage.
• Responsible for maintaining access control rosters and logs for the company's collaterally cleared facilities and SCIF's.
• Assists in the development and management of the security officer's Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) handbook.
• Supervise, develop work schedules, and conducted perform reviews of the company's on-site, contracted security staff.
• Provide cross-functional security support for the onboarding and out-processing of employees and sub-contractors.
• Provide weekly, monthly, and/or quarterly reports for security management, as requested.

Qualifications:

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI w/ Polygraph.
• Possess either; a BS with 5-7 years of related experience, a MS with 3-5 years of related experience, a PhD with 0-2 years of related experience
• Possess advanced experience and understanding of Lenel, Digital Monitoring Products (DMP) and Milestone software and systems.
• Requires professional level writing, communication, and analytical skills.
• Ability to be onsite daily within the Chantilly, VA area.

We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.