Security Guard - G00 - Temporary Labor Pool (Intermittent)
Columbus Consolidated Government
Major Duties and Responsibilities
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- Patrols assigned areas; reports problems. Inspects and secures offices and buildings at the end of the day; opens doors at the beginning of the event day and secures all building and stairwell doors.
- Maintains crowd control for special events.
- Assists visitors with general information and directions.
- Operates metal detectors as required.
- Assists employees with automobile problems; may assist with loading and unloading equipment, inventory, or other packages.
- Raises and lowers flags.
- Provides reports as needed.
- May be assigned as security to performers or promoters for shows.
- Monitors parking lot and performers' buses to ensure the area is secure.
- Maintains security and crowd control in front of the stage.
- Carries out a continuous effort to improve operations and work processes; and works cooperatively and jointly to provide continuous improvement and customer-driven service.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
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- Knowledge of safety and security procedures for assigned areas and of state and local laws, rules, and regulations relating to areas of assignment.
- Skill in controlling crowds of people; observation of people and situations.
- Skill in the operation of a two-way radio communication system.
- Skill in oral and written communication.
Minimum Educational and Training Requirements
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Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with the completion of specialized training in the occupational field, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education.
Physical Requirements
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The work is typically performed while intermittently sitting, standing, stooping, bending, crouching, or walking. The employee occasionally lifts light and heavy objects, climbs ladders, and uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
- Climbing – ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.
- Crawling – moving about on hands, knees, or hands, feet.
- Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine. Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
- Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
- Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
- Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
- Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
- Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
- Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
- Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
- Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
- Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
- Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
- Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
- Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
- Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
- Standing – for sustained periods of time.
- Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
- Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.
- Talking 2 – shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
- Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
- Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
- Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.
- Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
- Visual Acuity 5 -close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.
- Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.
The employee occasionally lifts light and heavy objects, uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity, and distinguishes between shades of color. The work is typically performed in an office, library, or computer room.