Security Guard

Company: San Joaquin Valley College
Location: Porterville
Posted on: May 3, 2021

Job Description:

Position at San Joaquin Valley College

Schedule: M-Th 7:00am-12:30pm

Summary: The Safety position provides a safe and secure environment for students, employees and visitors by observing and reporting safety violations, unusual incidents, or illegal activity to the Campus President and/or Purchasing Facilities Technician. Additionally, the Safety position performs numerous nontraditional facilities related tasks as well. This type of environment is necessary for the pursuit of education. This is part-tine time role with the hours of 6:30 AM-noon or noon-5:30 PM.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Presents a positive image of the SJVC family to visitors and guests.
• Patrols SJVC property to ensure the safety and security of students, employees and visitors by observing and reporting safety violations, unusual incidents and/or illegal activity.
• Ensures vehicles are not tampered with, parking regulations are followed and speed limits are enforced.
• Identifies and directs visitors to the proper destination
• Writes reports on safety violations, unusual incidents and/or illegal activity
• Conducts periodic safety checks
• Assists in disaster drills
• Escorts uninvited persons from SJVC property and creates a liaison between management and law enforcement
• Assists the Purchasing and Facilities Technician as needed with distribution of textbooks and/or supplies to classrooms and/or offices
• Performs other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Job Competencies

Customer Focus - Responds promptly to student, employee or campus/CAO needs; solicits customer feedback to improve services; responds to requests for service and assistance; meets commitments.

Productivity - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; looks for ways to improve and promote quality; applies feedback to improve performance; monitors own work to ensure quality; completes work in a timely manner.

Teamwork - Balances team and individual responsibilities; gives and welcomes feedback.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required.

Language Skills Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos; ability to write simple correspondence and reports; Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to supervisors, peers and students.

Mathematical Skills Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; ability to compute rate, ratio and percent.

Reasoning Ability Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions; ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Microsoft Office; MS Word and Outlook.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: None

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions. The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The mission of San Joaquin Valley College is to provide learning opportunities to individuals in the communities it serves through postsecondary programs of study, which include general studies and professional preparation in career-focused majors.We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.All information submitted to San Joaquin Valley College is subject to its Employee Privacy Policy, available at https://www.sjvc.edu/employee-privacy-policy

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