Security Manager

Boehringer Ingelheim • Gainesville, GA

13h

About The Position

The Security Manager supervises physical security and protects company assets and property for the applicable company site or location. The role serves as the company’s primary interface to the site’s contract security guard force and coordinates with security at off-site locations in the state where the site is based. The manager develops, manages, and implements security programs, procedures, and systems to continually improve site security and safety and ensure compliance with Federal, State, Local, and Corporate requirements and expectations. The role also handles event security, executive protection, and security coordination issues, monitoring them for corrective or protective action.

The position manages programs such as security monitoring and surveillance, access control, executive security, loss prevention, event security, and investigations. It oversees contract guard-force operations, including contractor management, budgeting, contract oversight, procedures, and staffing assignments. The manager supports departments on sensitive matters, emergency response organizations, site engineering projects, and company-sponsored events. The position may have 0–5 Boehringer Ingelheim direct reports; the contract guard force may include up to 40 guards overseen by on-site managers. The role implements operational policies, establishes objectives, delegates assignments, and may serve on the site crisis management team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and five years of experience in Security Management, or at least ten years of experience plus professional training in the corporate security field.
• Knowledge of security technologies, including surveillance and access control systems.
• Strong investigative skills to handle and address incidents.
• Strong Microsoft Office Suite skills.
• Ability to communicate with all levels of management.
• Ability to plan events and take appropriate action as circumstances require.
• Strong working knowledge of security-related regulatory requirements, such as Department of Homeland Security requirements.
• Advanced understanding of corporate security, law enforcement, and/or intelligence techniques.
• Organizational and leadership skills, including the ability to manage by influence.
• Business and technical competence in security, including the ability to determine appropriate access-control and monitoring measures for situations requiring protection.
• Ability to manage contracted staff, including scheduling and assigning staff to specialized posts.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to plan and organize, make decisions, and maintain a customer-service focus.
• Ability to forecast future projects and company needs.
• Ability to collaborate regionally and network globally.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.
• Willingness to take a drug test and post-offer physical if required.
• Must be at least 18 years of age.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in law enforcement or intelligence.
• Prior supervisory experience in the security field.
• Experience managing a third-party security vendor.

Responsibilities

• Manage programs to maintain and continuously improve physical security at applicable sites and locations.
• Oversee security monitoring and surveillance, access control systems and procedures, executive security, loss prevention, event security, investigations, and other security programs as needed.
• Ensure security programs and procedures comply with Federal, State, Local, and Corporate requirements and align with Regional expectations.
• Develop site Safety & Security awareness programs to improve the on-site culture.
• Manage all aspects of the contract security guard force, including contractor management interface, budgeting, contract oversight, and delegation of additional duties.
• Work with contract security management to develop guard-operation procedures and periodically review adherence.
• Provide security support and coordination to departments, including Human Resources, for sensitive issues.
• Ensure procedures are in place to support emergency response organizations when needed.
• Support site engineering projects by reviewing plans, recommending security measures, and ensuring their implementation.
• Provide logistics support for company-sponsored special events and manage their security aspects.
• Monitor security issues and coordinate corrective or protective action, including event security, executive protection, and security coordination issues.
• Implement operational policies and practices, establish operational objectives, and delegate assignments in the managed area.
• Ensure proper operation of the contract security guard force, which may include on-site managers overseeing a force of up to 40.
• Coordinate security activities in a crisis and participate in the site crisis management team if applicable.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefit programs.
• Support for a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking, and work-life balance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager