Senior SOC Operations & Emergency Readiness Lead

SUMMARY
Join Grand Sierra Resort as the Senior Manager of SOC Operations and Emergency Preparedness and take a leading role in protecting our guests, team members, and property. This high-impact position oversees Security Operations Center and dispatch operations, coordinates responses to critical incidents, and advances emergency planning, training, and life-safety readiness. The ideal candidate is a calm, decisive leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about building prepared teams, strengthening operational resilience, and making a meaningful difference every day.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Primary duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for the Security Operations Center and Dispatch functions, ensuring continuous coverage, consistent service standards, and 24/7 readiness to support the property.

• Serve as the primary command and coordination point for security, safety, life-safety, and emergency events, maintaining clear direction and control throughout each incident.

• Maintain real-time situational awareness by monitoring video surveillance, access control, alarms, radio traffic, emergency communications, incident reports, and other operational systems.

• Assess incidents promptly, establish response priorities, deploy appropriate resources, and ensure timely escalation based on the nature, severity, and potential impact of the event.

• Coordinate responses with Security, Surveillance, Risk & Safety, Engineering, Facilities, Hotel Operations, Human Resources, Risk Management, Information Technology, and other departments as circumstances require.

• Ensure executive leadership and designated stakeholders receive accurate, timely, and appropriately escalated notifications during significant incidents and operational disruptions.

• Apply incident command principles during emergencies, establish clear roles and communication channels, track response activity, and support an orderly transition to recovery operations.

• Develop, maintain, and regularly evaluate emergency response plans for fire, severe weather, active threats, medical emergencies, evacuations, shelter-in-place events, utility failures, technology disruptions, and other foreseeable hazards.

• Support business continuity and operational resilience by identifying critical functions, response dependencies, communication needs, and recovery priorities.

• Create and maintain emergency communications protocols, notification procedures, call trees, escalation matrices, response checklists, incident command guides, and other quick-reference resources.

• Plan, coordinate, and document drills, tabletop exercises, simulations, and other preparedness activities in partnership with affected departments and external agencies.

• Evaluate exercises and actual incidents, facilitate after-action reviews, document lessons learned, assign corrective actions, and track improvements through completion.

• Establish and maintain the Emergency Response Team structure, including defined roles, training requirements, activation procedures, equipment readiness, participation standards, and performance expectations.

• Build and sustain working relationships with law enforcement, fire, emergency medical services, emergency management agencies, utilities, vendors, and other public-safety partners.

• Coordinate site familiarization, joint planning, emergency access, contact information, and response expectations with external agencies and service providers.

• Oversee operational readiness of life-safety systems and related response processes, including testing schedules, inspection documentation, impairment notifications, deficiency escalation,…