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Responsibilities
Facility Security
- Own the physical security program across all Northwood corporate offices and ground station facilities, including access control systems, surveillance infrastructure, intrusion detection, visitor management, and perimeter security.
- Conduct regular physical security assessments across facilities, identifying vulnerabilities and driving remediation in alignment with government customer requirements and industry best practices.
- Design and implement physical security standards for new facility builds and ground station site deployments, ensuring security requirements are incorporated from the planning phase through commissioning.
- Manage relationships with physical security vendors, integrators, and contract security personnel, ensuring service levels and performance standards are consistently met.
- Develop and maintain emergency response plans, evacuation procedures, and crisis communication protocols for all facilities, and conduct regular drills to validate readiness.
Ground Station Security
- Develop and enforce physical security standards for Northwood's ground station network, including site hardening, access control, and monitoring for facilities operating in remote and internationally distributed locations.
- Partner with network and security engineering teams to ensure physical and logical security controls are integrated and mutually reinforcing at ground station sites.
- Conduct site security assessments for new ground station deployments, providing physical security requirements to site selection, construction, and commissioning teams.
- Establish and maintain security protocols for third-party access to ground station facilities, including vendor escorts, access logging, and site-specific security briefings.
Executive Protection
- Design and manage an executive protection program for Northwood's senior leadership, including threat assessment, travel security planning, and on-the-ground protective support for domestic and international travel.
- Conduct advance work for executive travel, including route planning, venue assessment, and coordination with local security resources and law enforcement where appropriate.
- Develop and maintain executive protection protocols, escalation procedures, and emergency response plans in coordination with the Head of Security and legal counsel.
- Monitor the threat landscape for risks relevant to Northwood's leadership and operations, providing timely briefings and actionable recommendations.
International Travel Security
- Own Northwood's international travel security program, including pre-travel risk assessments, country-specific security briefings, traveler tracking, and emergency support protocols for personnel operating in elevated-risk environments.
- Develop and maintain travel security policies and procedures, including guidance for personnel traveling to ITAR-sensitive destinations or operating in environments with heightened counterintelligence risk.
- Coordinate with government agencies, security consultants, and in-country resources to maintain current threat intelligence for regions where Northwood personnel operate.
- Provide security briefings and training for employees traveling internationally, with targeted content for personnel handling CUI or operating under ITAR obligations.
NISPOM & FSO Support
- Support the Facility Security Officer in administering Northwood's personnel security program in accordance with NISPOM requirements, including visit authorization requests, security clearance processing coordination, and cleared personnel management.
- Assist in maintaining facility accreditation documentation, DD Form 254 compliance, and government customer security requirements related to physical access and controlled areas.
- Coordinate classified visit requests and ensure physical access to controlled areas is managed in strict alignment with DCSA requirements and government customer obligations.
- Support insider threat program activities in coordination with the Security Operations Lead and GRC Lead, including physical security–related indicators and reporting procedures.
Team Leadership
- Hire, mentor, and develop a physical security team including security coordinators and contract security personnel as Northwood's facility footprint scales.
- Define team operating procedures, performance standards, and on-call responsibilities to ensure consistent security coverage across all facilities.
- Serve as the primary physical security subject-matter expert in cross-functional collaboration with facilities, legal, HR, and security engineering teams.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of progressive physical security experience, with demonstrated leadership of physical security programs in a corporate, defense, or critical infrastructure environment.
- Hands-on experience designing and managing physical security systems, including access control, CCTV, intrusion detection, and visitor management platforms.
- Experience developing and executing executive protection programs, including advance work, threat assessment, and travel security planning.
- Demonstrated experience managing international travel security programs, including risk assessment, traveler tracking, and emergency response protocols.
- Familiarity with NISPOM and the personnel security requirements applicable to cleared defense contractors, including visit authorization procedures and controlled area management.
- Experience conducting physical security assessments and developing remediation plans across multiple facilities.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief executive leadership and government customers on physical security posture and risk.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance.
- U.S. citizenship or status as a lawful permanent resident required to conform with ITAR export regulations.
**Preferred Qualifications
- Active TS clearance or higher.
- Experience supporting a Facility Security Officer in a cleared defense contractor environment, including DCSA inspection preparation and DD Form 254 administration.
- Background in military, law enforcement, federal law enforcement, or intelligence community protective operations.
- Experience securing facilities and personnel in international environments with elevated geopolitical or counterintelligence risk.
- Familiarity with insider threat program requirements and integration of physical security indicators into broader insider threat detection programs.
- Experience with physical security technology platforms, including enterprise access control and video management systems.
- Knowledge of ITAR travel and technology control requirements relevant to personnel operating internationally.
- Professional certifications such as Certified Protection Professional (CPP), Physical Security Professional (PSP), or equivalent credentials.
