Industrial Security Specialist

Position:Industrial Security Specialist

Location: Beavercreek, OH

Remote Status: On-Site

Job :325

# of Openings:1

The Parallax Advanced Research Mission is to deliver innovative research and provide technology, human and business solutions via The Science of Intelligent Teaming™ for government, industry and academic clients with critical challenges.

This position is critical to ensuring the effective protection and management of highly sensitive information, technologies, and operations within the department. It provides oversight of Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and Special Access Program (SAP) security requirements, ensuring classified programs remain compliant with established policies and security standards. The role supports the development and implementation of safeguarding measures, access controls, and security policies that protect mission-critical capabilities while enabling personnel to effectively support sensitive programs.

It also coordinates with stakeholders to ensure secure facility identification, accreditation, and compliance requirements are met before classified activities occur. Additionally, the position contributes to security governance through policy development, training, guidance, and support of compliance inspections, helping strengthen security processes and overall operational effectiveness.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

Personnel Responsibility and Support

• Support the processing, verification, and maintenance of SCI/SAP personnel security requirements, ensuring personnel meet applicable eligibility, access, and need-to-know requirements prior to authorization.
• Serve as the CSSO in administering day-to-day SCI and SAP security operations and ensuring compliance with regulations and applicable program security requirements.
• Manage the complete SCI/SAP access lifecycle, including eligibility, Program Access Requests (PARs), indoctrinations, debriefings, suspensions, terminations, and other personnel security status changes.
• Maintain and reconcile SCI/SAP personnel records and access rosters, identifying discrepancies between clearance eligibility, personnel status, organizational assignments, and authorized program access.
• Support personnel security actions associated with new hires, transfers, promotions, changes in duties, organizational moves, and separations, ensuring timely updates to SCI/SAP access and security documentation.
• Administer security education and training, provide security briefings, and ensure personnel understand classified information protection, reporting requirements, insider threat responsibilities, and program-specific security procedures.
• Support facility security, classified material accountability, inspections, and security incident management, including investigations, corrective actions, inventories, secure handling, and protection of classified information and assets.
• Coordinate with SSOs, GSSOs, PSOs, FSOs, ISSMs, government security representatives, and program leadership to implement SCI/SAP security requirements, resolve security discrepancies, and maintain continuous program compliance.

FSO Responsibilities and Support

The Person nel Security Specialist shall support the FSO in the administration of the National Industrial Security Program, including:

• Processing personnel security clearance requirements for employees and contractors.
• Monitoring personnel clearance eligibility, access, and investigation status.
• Supporting initial, interim, upgrade, transfer, reinvestigation/continuous-vetting, and other personnel-security actions as applicable.
• Maintaining accurate personnel-security records and databases.
• Supporting required security briefings, refresher briefings, and debriefings.
• Supporting execution and maintenance of applicable nondisclosure agreements.
• Assisting with required personnel-security reporting.
• Identifying and promptly escalating potentially reportable security concerns to the FSO.
• Supporting security out-processing and termination of classified access.
• Maintaining documentation necessary to demonstrate compliance with NISPOM requirements.
• Supporting FSO self-inspections and DCSA assessments.
• Assisting with corrective-action tracking and resolution of personnel-security findings.
• Supporting implementation of security requirements…