FT & PT Security Guards in East Rutherford, New Jersey at New Meadowlands Racetrack
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Job Description
EAST RUTHERFORD NJ
Position Summary
This Security Guard position is responsible for ensuring safety in a number of different areas in maintaining an assigned post as well as conducting routine patrols. In addition to regulating and patrolling the Grandstand building, working assigned posts (indoor/outdoor) the Security Guard sets up proper equipment for events, logs any activities or irregularities during shift, and assumes a proactive role in keeping the facility safe.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities
Qualification Requirements
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.
Education and/or Experience: High school diploma or GED equivalent required. Associate’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice or related field preferred. Previous experience in security / surveillance
Special Qualifications: Advanced people skills; diffusing hostility, diversity training, verbal communication, crowd control. Ability to walk for long periods of time, run in the case of emergency and stand for the duration of their shift maintaining posts.
Language Skills: Basic language skills apply.
Mathematical Skills: Basic math skills apply in certain circumstances.
Reasoning Ability: Associate needs to have common sense reasoning in a variety of situations.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an Associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the Associate is regularly performing all functions, without any special accommodation.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
Incumbent will need to be able to move all around the track.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
The work hours include weekdays, evenings and nights, weekends, holidays.
Certificates and Licenses
- Must be authorized to work in the United States.
- Must have or be able to obtain a NJ Racing License, a NJ Gaming License (if necessary), and satisfy all regulatory requirements.
- Must be able to pass background suitability investigation.
- Must be able to pass initial drug screening