RHS Safety and Security Service Coordinator

MSU Internal Job Postings Details•East Lansing, MI

About The Position

Conducts access audits, establishes and maintains permissions, and coordinates corrections. Supports emergency drills, after-action notes, and continuity planning. Assists with safety walkthroughs, documenting deficiencies and corrective actions. Provides logistical support for training and maintains records. Investigates nationwide best practices in safety and security procedures and proposes changes to procedures and rules as needed. Reviews planned indoor and outdoor event requests to ensure compliance with applicable fire code requirements, life-safety standards, and emergency planning imperatives; coordinates with MSU Risk Management, EHS, DPPS, and unit leadership to ensure safe event execution. Conducts training sessions for RHS in topic areas such as confidentiality, emergency management, event/program planning, and fire safety/alarm/drills. Administers electronic key control systems and oversees key-issuance permissions for the Division of Residential and Hospitality Services (RHS), ensuring accurate documentation, secure handling, and compliance with established access-control policies and operational security standards. Collaborates with University departments such as Environmental Health and Safety on room and apartment inspections, common-area building inspections, and state fire marshal inspections, and works closely with MSU DPPS/IPF on building access governance, including key control reviews and electronic access audit processes. Provides required documentation of all state-mandated fire drills, including maintaining drill logs, collecting compliance records from units, and submitting reports to appropriate University and regulatory authorities. Coordinates the annual review and update of the Clery Act Fire Safety Report for RHS facilities, ensuring accuracy of fire statistics, equipment inventories, building fire safety features, and compliance with federal reporting requirements.

Requirements

Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired by completing a four-year college degree program in public safety, criminal justice, emergency management, or a related field
One to three years of experience in building access control, security operations, emergency planning, or safety compliance
Requires knowledge of basic PC operations, email, internet, and incident reporting systems
Or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Responsibilities

Conducts access audits, establishes and maintains permissions, and coordinates corrections.
Supports emergency drills, after-action notes, and continuity planning.
Assists with safety walkthroughs, documenting deficiencies and corrective actions.
Provides logistical support for training and maintains records.
Investigates nationwide best practices in safety and security procedures and proposes changes to procedures and rules as needed.
Reviews planned indoor and outdoor event requests to ensure compliance with applicable fire code requirements, life-safety standards, and emergency planning imperatives; coordinates with MSU Risk Management, EHS, DPPS, and unit leadership to ensure safe event execution.
Conducts training sessions for RHS in topic areas such as confidentiality, emergency management, event/program planning, and fire safety/alarm/drills.
Administers electronic key control systems and oversees key-issuance permissions for the Division of Residential and Hospitality Services (RHS), ensuring accurate documentation, secure handling, and compliance with established access-control policies and operational security standards.
Collaborates with University departments such as Environmental Health and Safety on room and apartment inspections, common-area building inspections, and state fire marshal inspections, and works closely with MSU DPPS/IPF on building access governance, including key control reviews and electronic access audit processes.
Provides required documentation of all state-mandated fire drills, including maintaining drill logs, collecting compliance records from units, and submitting reports to appropriate University and regulatory authorities.
Coordinates the annual review and update of the Clery Act Fire Safety Report for RHS facilities, ensuring accuracy of fire statistics, equipment inventories, building fire safety features, and compliance with federal reporting requirements.