Principle Industrial Security Representative

Description

Leidos has an exciting opportunity for a Principle Industrial Security Representative to support a large-scale program in Reston, VA.

We are looking for someone with a strong background in counterintelligence awareness and briefings, personnel security clearance processing, and experience managing the physical security requirements of SCIFs for a customer within the intelligence community.

The selected candidate will need to be well versed in NISPOM, Intelligence Community Directives and SEADs, a self-starter who can prioritize security actions, provide excellent communication to employees, management and government customer, and a result driven professional to handle security issues.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintain and manage program security requirements to include all customer compliance requirements
• Provide security clearance processing, physical/industrial security, computer investigations, and security operations support.
• Prepare and disseminate security requirements, guidance, and procedures.
• Provide Clearance and SCI briefing/debriefing to employees.
• Ensure personnel are aware of the reporting responsibilities such as Foreign Contact, Foreign Travel and Outside Activities.
• Track Government contractor badge renewal submission.
• Receive, control and safeguard SCI and collateral information.
• Collaborate with members of the DoD, the IC and other officials as required to maintain knowledge and understanding of current security regulations.
• Monitor, update, and maintain appropriate records (e.g. database and hardcopy) of security actions.
• Coordinate information with internal and external security offices and divisions.
• Interpret security policy on matters pertaining to processing, dissemination, and controlling of classified materials.
• Monitor and manage security operations and provide status reports and recommendations.
• Create, manage, and execute Security Awareness and CI training programs.
• Collaborate with internal and external managers to ensure understanding of program operations.
• Draft or create security volumes for Request for Information or Proposals.
• Work closely with program manage team and government customer.
• Conduct foreign travel pre-post foreign travel briefings.
• Author CI briefings and provide counterintelligence updates.
• Conduct initial inquiries and write final reports related to security incidents and violations.
• Respond to after hour intrusion detection systems (during the week and on weekends).
• Maintain program security requirements to include; updating SOPs, maintaining personnel records via SIMs, updating and maintaining security education and awareness programs.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of experience in industrial / physical security. Additional years of relevant industrial security experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Experience delivering full range of security services including, but not limited to:
  All aspects of pre-screening hiring and onboarding new contractors, administering briefings/debriefings, security incident management, mentoring and instructing employees to ensure program and employee compliance with sponsor CI/Security regulations.
• Experience interpreting customer security policies and CI risk mitigation.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with experience and ability to maintain program required Security documentation and to collaborate, coordinate, deconflict, and engage with various customer groups and a multi-cultural diverse workforce.
• Experience managing and having oversight of large programs.
• Experience briefing multi-level audiences is a must.
• Advanced interpersonal and customer service skills as well as the ability to provide concise and compelling briefings to audiences of varied experience levels.
• Ability to make sound decisions and advise PMO and customer leadership on sensitive personnel and security related matters.
• Self-starter who has experience integrating with a customer security team and can independently perform program security duties with little supervision.
• Experience providing extended, direct and substantive guidance to employees working in high threat, austere, denied area and warzone…