JFK International Air Terminal LLC

Job Title: Supervisor, Safety & Security
Full-Time Position

Position Overview: Assist the Senior Manager, Safety & Security Operations execute the Safety & Security department’s mission by planning and performing the day-to-day functions to ensure the protection of individuals, tenants, and the traveling public and compliance of the internal and external rules and regulations imposed by JFKIAT, and the Federal, State, City and local governing authorities.

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Salary Range: $62,000 - $64,000

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serves as a liaison in a supporting role to the Operations Duty Manager on a shift-to-shift basis for safety & security matters including crisis response.
• Provides specific safety and security knowledge, guidance and key contacts for internal/external SOP, rules and regulations, guidelines, and best practices.
• Focus on daily operations and supervise the Security Operations Center (SOC) staff and Visitor Center subcontracted staff on a day-to-day basis.
• Serves to uphold, maintain, document, and audit all policies pertaining to internal requirements and governing authorities’ regulations, including but not limited to, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Center for Disease Control (CDC), Terminal Security Plan (TSP), Airport Emergency Plans (AEP), and Airport Security Programs (ASP)
• Ensures patrols and security checks are performed by terminal operations/security personnel.
• Conducts required audits to maintain compliance and uphold safety and security measures.
• Conducts risk assessments to manage and mitigate potential hazards to improve safety performance.
• Conducts internal safety and security audits, and generates, updates, and maintains statistical daily, weekly, and monthly control reports based on audit findings/results.
• Supervises the access control database for Terminal 4 employees, and investigates, troubleshoots, and resolves applicable PANYNJ (Port Authority of NY & NJ) badge issues with PANYNJ as it relates to Terminal 4 (T4) access.
• Assists law enforcement and other stakeholders with investigations by use of CCTV footage, access control software and other means.
• Maintains the integrity of all safety & security related processes, enforces rules and regulations, issues warnings and infraction, and responds to all accidents/incidents as it pertains to the day-to-day operations of airside, terminal, and landside functions.
• Oversee relevant Safety & Security systems and liaison with its vendors and other JFKIAT departments as they pertain to the day-to-day functions to maintain business continuity.
• Assist with projects as it relates to the Safety & Security of the Terminal.
• Verifies, collaborates, and responds as needed for safety & security related matters and communicates to Operations and Safety & Security Management for situational awareness.
• Provides general safety & security guidelines for T4 airlines, tenants, employees, and as necessary, visitors and the traveling public.
• Reviews and prepares incident reports, analyzes data and trends, and documents administrative activities per established policy and procedures
• Supervises the JFKIAT Safety & Security Contracts relating to Landside Traffic, Employee & Goods Screening, and Building Security, on a shift-to-shift basis.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education, Training, and Experience

• Three years of aviation specific security experience OR three years of experience in a security supervisory role preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in criminal science or aviation strongly preferred; One (1) year of directly related professional experience may substitute for one (1) year of the required education up to (4) years.
• Must obtain AAAE Security ACE certification, PANYNJ airside driver qualification (DR-1 designation), and complete SOC Training curriculum within 1 year of hire date.

Special Requirements

• Must be able to pass a criminal background check and obtain and maintain federally mandated security clearances required to work at an airport
• Valid driver’s license required
• Must be able to work rotating shifts, holidays, weekends, including overnights
• Must hold “REAL” identification to obtain a Port Authority badge and US Customs and Border Protection Seal

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
Knowledge
Advanced/Preferred knowledge of:

• Supervisory methods, practices, and procedures
• Airport security rules & regulations, access control, crisis response, and safety and security policies
• Federal laws, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Customs & Border Patrol (CBP) rules and regulations

Considerable knowledge of:

• Communication equipment, devices and systems, including radio, telephone, intercom and computer-aided dispatch systems, security operations system, and their operation
• General emergency communications and dispatch procedures and protocols
• Procedures used in administering first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) procedures and applying and using Automated External Defibrillator (AED) equipment

Skills

• Active Learning: Understand the implications of new information for both current and future problem- solving and decision-making
• Active Listening: Give full attention to what other people are saying, take time to understand the points being made, ask questions as appropriate, and not interrupt at inappropriate times
• Time Management: Manage one’s own time or the time of others
• Coordination With Others: Adjust actions in relation to others' actions
• Judgement And Decision Making: Consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one
• Able to apply Aviation rules and regulations to day-to-day job functions.

Abilities

• Comprehend Oral Information: Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences
• Speak: Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand
• Comprehend Written Information: Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing
• Write: Communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand
• Recognize Problems: Identify when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong
• Reason To Solve Problems: Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense
• Make Sense of Information: Quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns
• Reason to Solving Problems: Apply general rules to solve specific problems to produce answers that make sense
• Make Sense of Information: Quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns

PHYSICAL CONDITIONS/WORK ENVIRONMENT
The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination against a qualified individual with a disability. To
be qualified for this position an individual must meet the following standards and/or be able to perform the essential functions and activities. The physical activities for this position involve: pulling, pushing, and standing, sitting, stooping, walking, crouching, kneeling, and jumping. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to travel from floor to floor and will be required to travel outside between buildings in varying outdoor weather conditions. An individual in this position may be required to lift and/or move more than 50 pounds. The essential sensory and communicative activities include feeling, speaking, hearing, smelling, and vision abilities to include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.