Director, Public Safety & Security

This position oversees Public Safety & Security for Houston Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center and corporate facilities.

At Houston Methodist, the Director Public Safety and Security position is responsible for providing the vision and leadership necessary to ensure a safe and secure environment, for all persons at the designated entity level of Houston Methodist. This position has a defined vision and actionable plans, to achieve short and long term goals, while maintaining a consistent level of service with the priorities established by executive leadership and will demonstrate operational efficiencies and improve overall staff effectiveness through the professional and prudent management of all departmental resources provided.

The Director Public Safety and Security position disseminates necessary information, resolves conflicts, builds cohesion, maintains a clearly defined and achievable end state, and confirms that Public Safety and Security's strategy and goals are in alignment with the organizational strategic areas of focus. This position will provide oversight, guidance and career development to managers, supervisors, and staff, with emphasis on assuring an orderly management succession plan, maintaining staff performance readiness through training, and high employee job satisfaction.

The Director Public Safety and Security position will proactively set and effectively manage the department's operating and capital budgets. This position continually emphasizes HM Mission and Public Safety vision with 4 key values of: knowledge, training, teamwork, and technology, overseeing the security management plan of the entity and driving the Workplace Violence Prevention and Intervention program.

The Director position responsibilities include overseeing the activities of the department staff, ensuring quality, productivity, functional excellence and efficiency to accomplish strategic and operational objectives. In addition, this position is accountable for employee engagement, adequate staffing levels, budget development and compliance, staffing decisions such as hiring and terminating employment, coaching and counseling employees on work related performance, and developing and implementing policies and procedures to ensure a safe and effective work environment.

This position also ensures training, monitoring and operations initiatives are implemented which secure compliance with ethical and legal business practices and accreditation/regulatory/government regulations.

Exempt

• Bachelor’s degree
• Master’s degree e.g. Security related, Business Administration, Human Resources, or Management preferred

• Seven years of people management experience in corporate security, law enforcement, or a military environment; for internal employees, six years of people management experience in corporate security, law enforcement, or a military environment

• SECUR-C
  - Security Officer Commissioned
  - State Licensure
  - Texas Department of Licensing and  Licensure by the Texas Department of Public Safety, Bureau of Private Security Agencies

• Certified Protection Professional (CPP) within 6 months or
• Certified Healthcare Protection Administrator (CHPA) other relevant certification within 6 months

• Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through on-going skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations
• Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially about activities impacting patient or employee safety or security
• Demonstrates the ability to interact with others in a way that gives them confidence in one’s intentions and those of the organization
• Ability to use appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; modifying one’s own behavior to accommodate tasks, situations and individuals involved
• Demonstrates leadership qualities and critical thinking through self-direction initiative and effective interpersonal…