Security Officer (SWORN)

                                                             CANDIDATE MUST BE A MEMBER OF THE ATLANTA RETIRED POLICE RESERVE

Municipal Court Of Atlanta 

Posting Expires: Open Until Filled

Salary: $35/hour

Responsibilities:           

• Enforces procedural rules and regulations. Ensures the personal safety of staff, visitors, and property. Maintains security and safety for assigned areas. Maintains a working knowledge of the locations of various departments, buildings, access routes, and admitting requirements.
• Operate and monitor security control panels, alarms, and related security equipment to provide area and visitor surveillance.
• Patrols assigned areas.  Checks for suspicious occurrences, and enforces City of Atlanta rules and regulations.
• Responds to and investigates situations reported to Control Rooms. Call APD or AFFD authorities to investigate suspicious activities or security violations that require intervention.
• Checks Identification of persons entering City of Atlanta facilities as needed.  Provide information and directions. Explains rules and regulations.
• Maintain a guest registry as directed ensuring that users have left the premises. Reports security and general maintenance problems to the proper authorities.
• Maintains logs and records of occurrences, completes necessary paperwork, and may use computer terminal to input and retrieve data.

Position Knowledge:

• Limited knowledge of the City of Atlanta organizational policies and procedures.

Skills:

• Verbal and written communication skills.
• Regular use of machines that require little training to use.
• Advises, screens and refers callers and visitors.
• Understand non-routine notes, written instructions, and general policy statements.

Supervisory Guidelines:

• Supervisor and staff member plan, assign and schedule work jointly.
• Supervisor provides instruction only in new situations, methods and procedures that are not clearly related to already existing tasks and duties.

Independent Judgment:

• Established procedures/policies govern many work situations.
• Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
• Recognize problems and choose solutions from among several alternatives that are not necessarily governed by established procedures.
• Work occasionally requires giving others a general orientation to routine procedures and policies.

Working Conditions:

• Ongoing possibility of safety risks.
• Workday occasionally includes conflicting demands, time pressures, deadlines or emergencies.
• Work regularly requires sustained concentration.
• Work requires some physical effort and some dexterity.
• Must sit, stand and or walk for extended period of time.