Access Control Specialist, Full-Time: 1st Shift - Cleared (TS or TS/SCI)

Join our team of 500+ front-line security professionals ensuring that our nation’s most precious assets are protected. As a physical security specialist, you will be provided with exceptional training and growth opportunities while playing a critical role in the workplace and mission security for a US intelligence community customer.

Are you Vigilant, Trustworthy and Patient?

If security is important to you, keep reading. These are the foundational qualities we are looking for in our Access Control Specialists!

Essential Responsibilities:

• Monitor and control the access of employees and visitors in and out of restricted areas by ensuring people have proper access.
• Ensure that prohibited and restricted items do not find their way in or out of the building.
• Diligently monitor your restricted area.
• Provide excellent customer service to all employees and visitors.
• Remain alert and aware of surroundings.
• Exhibit excellent communication in every interaction.
• Ensure attention to detail.
• The ability to work independently during your scheduled shift(s).
• The ability to adapt to change within high-volume, fast-paced, and slow-paced environments.

 
For more information regarding the clearance process please click the link below:

https://www.globalaccesscontrol.com/faq

​Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently hold an active Top-Secret Clearance.
• You must be able to work 1st shift (5:00am-1:00pm OR 6:00am-2:00pm +/- 1 hour) Monday - Friday; this work supports 24/7 operations, and you may be assigned challenging shifts, but it will be worth it!
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly.
• Must have and maintain a valid state driver’s license in good standing.
• High School diploma or GED.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Currently live within a 75-mile radius of Annapolis Junction, MD.
• Must be open to alternating work locations and be willing to travel within 10-15 miles of Annapolis Junction Business Park.
• Read, speak, and understand English language fluently.
• You will need to be comfortable leaving your mobile device at home or in your car. The assigned work location will be in a restricted mobile communication zone.
• Must be available to work 2 major holidays and 1 minor holiday, as determined by Amentum, per year.

 
Work Environment, Physical Demands, and Mental Demands
You need to be physically able to perform all duties and functions as specified:

• You need to see well and to prove it. So, you should have 20/20 vision (glasses and contacts count) and close vision correctable to Jaeger No. 4 type test for both eyes.
• You need to be free of color blindness.
• You should have normal fields of vision and good depth perception, as defined by the Snellen chart.
• You need to be able to have hearing which is correctable to normal level hearing with hearing aids. Normal hearing levels are demonstrated by a pure tone audiometry hearing level (HL) of 0 decibels (dB) or lower.
• You need to be able to stand continuously for 4 hours at a time.
• The ability to lift light weighted packages and/or bags (for inspection purposes).
• Have the ability to write clear concise statements describing any event or issue that needs to be documented at each post.
• The ability to work independently during your scheduled shift(s).
• The ability to adapt to change within a high-volume, fast-paced environment.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language at EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans and Labor Laws Posters.