How varied is your job??

[duncan_a_resort_security]

Hi guys and girls,

I am currently working doing resort security and have a varied job. Some of the things that we do during our shift include:

CIT
Foot Patrols
Car Patrols
EMS duties
Crowd Control

How varied is your shifts and what duties do you perform?

Thanks

Duncan

[EMTGuard]

Lots' of phone/switchboard stuff.
CCTV monitoring of 6 cameras (out of about 20 on the site but that's a different thread topic )
Vehicle patrols.
EMS duties.

[SecureTrans]

At my largest site we do:

Access Control
Vehicle Inspections
Mobile Patrols
CCTV Monitoring
Vehicle Stops (we wrote 1100 citations in 2007)
EMS Response
VIP Escorts
Accident Investigations (66 in 2007)
Explosive Detection K-9 Teams
SRT Team

[Ewfr 'Gomulee]

Most of my duties consisted of:
Perimeter Patrols
Car Park Patrols
Loading bay Patrols
Liasing with Police and other Guards in the area
Highly visual patrols within the store on the ground floor
Security Tagging items
and at one point I got to install a very temporary alarm system while the other was broken.

Not as professional as everyone else but still challenging for a newbie to the business.

[NRM_Oz]

1. Expect to go through your diary including incident management, investigations, interviews and meetings.

2. Expect everything else now expected to happy as when the SHTF - your phone is going to ring when you least expect it.

When I worked in store level LPM I still arrested and even now I will arrest as I am just a few hundred feet from our flagship store so I can be there in seconds (depending on the elevator), however spending all day doing investigations would bore me, so the variety of SOP's, training, interview panels, lectures, interviews, IT scanning and just visits keep me interested.

[Maelstrom]

Our site provides a decent array of duties that can and do vary from shift to shift... mind you variety is good for keeping the job challenging & interesting IMHO

I agree with NRM's comment above... don't make plans, just be aware of proposed events & be ready for potential occurances

[Guest]

My duties

Currently, I sit around in a junkyard and stare as busted-arse cars. Then, I drive around a car that would be well-suited in said junkyard. That's about it. Then I feed my pet coyote that I've adopted out there. Not much else.

[Aussie-SO]

Internal patrols
Set up casual lease sites
Removalist
Maintenance
Cleaning
Customer Service
Car park patrols
First Aide Attendant
Access control
CCTV monitoring
Counsellor
Jack of all trades and what ever else they decide to add to our list of things to do ... Did I mention Security Guard ????

[OpsMan1922]

Managing the day to day ops of our facilities in CT. Including but not limited to:

350 cameras and 400 card readers
5000+ employees
Parking garage
Investigations
Access Control
Visitor management
Training and development of security staff.
Space planning and real estate.
shredding
Crisis Management
Fire Safety.

[Jeremy]

I can't stand it when a client expects you to answer their bussiness phone calls from customers and transfer people to other departments....And receieve technical support calls for multiple software products and transfer them correctly....and operate the front desk of the headquarters transferring internal calls, and covering for the receptionists when they go on break/lunch and BEING a receptionist 2nd and 3rd shift when calls come in off hours...... You get an earload of technical jargon and just want to say to the person "Um, I'm just building security...." My first 10 months as a security officer was in this setting and thats why I was dying to transfer. When a company is too cheap to have backup receptionists or admins for VPs/Execs double as receptionists and they ask security to do it.....

[NRM_Oz]

Hmmmmmmm varied ?

As a foot slogger I guess you do whatever needs to be done, but at my level I guess it is anything needed from fashion show security to manning the front concierge desk if we are short staffed, to first aid, to apprehensions, to workplace safety audits, to meet and greet at our airport to even playing bean counter with the financial investigations.

We thankfully have a touch screen phone system which confirms by picture the person you are searching for and you can transfer them to the department from the reception. 1 site I used to work at twice a month made the security staff answer the corporate phones from 1500 so the receptionist could go home of a Friday and often the telephone directory had old numbers, old staff or even phantom employees from who knows where.