Manager, Physical Security Systems Operator - EPIC and Lab Security

Applied Materials•Santa Clara, CA

8d•$106,000 - $146,000•Onsite

About The Position

Applied Materials is seeking a security project management professional to support California Security Operations across company locations, including headquarters and the EPIC Center. The role translates security priorities into coordinated project plans, financial forecasts, leadership materials, and stakeholder engagements. It manages cross-functional security projects from requirements gathering and planning through implementation, closeout, and handoff to designated operational owners, coordinating scope, schedules, resources, budgets, risks, vendors, and dependencies. The position also supports annual budget planning, spending forecasts, executive presentations, project governance, and security-related meetings, workshops, and events. It partners with business unit leaders and teams across Real Estate, Facilities, EHS, BCP, IT, Finance, Legal, Employee Relations, Procurement, and external vendors. This is a project-focused role and does not include daily security operations, guard force supervision, screening equipment operation, incident response, or investigations. The position is based in Santa Clara, California, reports to the Director, California Security Operations, and does not require travel.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in security project management, program coordination, or related project delivery.
Experience developing budgets, cost estimates, spending forecasts, variance analyses, and funding requests with Finance and Procurement.
Strong cross-functional project leadership, including facilitating meetings, negotiating priorities, and driving deliverables without direct supervisory authority.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including presenting in meetings and working with senior stakeholders.
Proven experience developing project plans, governance documents, dashboards, executive summaries, and leadership presentation materials.
Ability to coordinate multiple vendors, project workstreams, stakeholder requirements, and competing deadlines.
Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional security operations projects across multiple sites, including scope definition, scheduling, resource coordination, cost tracking, risk management, and operational handoff.
Ability to manage concurrent projects across California, influence stakeholders without direct authority, and clearly communicate project priorities, dependencies, and decisions to leadership.
Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills.
Ability to pass all required background checks, certifications, and training.
Customer-focused and service-oriented mindset.
Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams, and project tracking tools.
Experience coordinating events, workshops, or leadership meetings, including agendas, logistics, presentation materials, budgets, and follow-up actions.
Mature judgment, balancing confidence and humility; process orientation combined with strong interpersonal relationships; ability to connect across organizational levels; self-motivation and a drive for excellence.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a laboratory, R&D, high-security, or technology environment.

Responsibilities

Manage security operations projects across California sites from requirements gathering and planning through implementation, closeout, and transition to ongoing operations.
Develop project scopes, work plans, schedules, milestones, and responsibility assignments with site security leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
Coordinate security technology implementations, facility readiness projects, process improvements, and cross-site standardization efforts.
Maintain project trackers, action logs, risk and issue registers, dependency maps, and an integrated California security project roadmap; escalate barriers and decisions to leadership.
Coordinate vendors and internal partners to align deliverables, resources, implementation schedules, funding, and operational requirements.
Track project costs against approved budgets, validate vendor deliverables, and coordinate scope or schedule changes through appropriate approvals.
Provide leadership with project status reports covering milestones, costs, risks, decisions, and next steps; support prioritization and documented change control.
Coordinate readiness reviews, acceptance criteria, documentation, training, operational handoffs, and lessons learned.
Develop and maintain project charters, requirements documents, responsibility matrices, implementation plans, closeout records, dashboards, reporting tools, version-controlled project records, decision logs, approval documentation, and templates.
Coordinate vendor statements of work, proposals, deliverables, implementation dependencies, acceptance criteria, project reviews, milestone commitments, and follow-up actions.
Represent security project priorities in cross-functional planning forums and coordinate dependencies with facilities, research, technology, and business teams.
Prepare executive-ready PowerPoint decks, project reviews, budget proposals, quarterly business reviews, leadership updates, executive summaries, briefing notes, talking points, and pre-read materials.
Translate project, financial, and security information into concise narratives, roadmaps, charts, dashboards, and leadership decisions; validate source data and financial figures and maintain consistent messaging and version control.
Plan and coordinate security workshops, leadership meetings, project kickoffs, stakeholder briefings, and security awareness events.
Develop event plans, agendas, schedules, invitations, attendee communications, and run-of-show documents; coordinate venues, audiovisual needs, materials, vendor logistics, budgets, presenters, and rehearsals.
Partner with site teams on visitor and access arrangements without assuming operational security duties; document meeting decisions, action owners, and due dates, distribute follow-up materials, gather feedback, and track commitments.