Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee risk mitigation procedures are in place to detect and respond to scenarios that could compromise an employee’s security clearance or the organization’s security
- Implement and/or maintain proper protocols for staff, guest, vendor, and contractor arrival and entry to the facility, including procedures for breaches
- Oversee proper access control and intrusion detection protocols for staff, guest, vendor, and contractors to areas where cannabis is present including vault/storage areas and deliveries/pick-up
- Maintain appropriate records of entry and exit to restricted and storage areas
- Implement and/or maintain response procedures for any access control or intrusion detection breaches to areas where cannabis is present, including vault/storage areas
- Oversee security measures to ensure the safekeeping of cannabis when being shipped, delivered and/or transported
- Maintain physical security through the monitoring, storage and retrieval of video monitoring footage
- Ensure the specification, type and number of video surveillance devices meet requirements under the Act
- Implement and/or maintain procedures for the secure handling of cannabis waste and destruction process
- Oversee internal security training and awareness requirements for management and employees
- Implement and/or maintain procedures for reporting security concerns, incidents or breaches by employees
- Implement and/or maintain contingency plans for record keeping system failures
- Oversee theft and loss detection procedures and awareness training
- Implement and/or maintain procedures for validating that cannabis entering the facility is from a legal source
- Oversee procedures for the protection of client information
- Implement and/or maintain response procedures should cannabis be found to enter or leave the facility in an unauthorized manner, ensuring a testing protocol for the response procedure
Requirements:
- Proven experience in security leadership in a regulated environment
- A diploma or degree in the related field
- Bilingual – French & English
- Accountable for results, strives to meet and exceed expectations- owns mistakes
- Health and wellness oriented
- Good humored and energetic
- Ability to quickly adapt; maintain focus and a high degree of accuracy while working with complex data in an environment of ever-changing deadlines, priorities and requirements
- Time management and follow-up skills; highly organized and detail oriented
- Excellent communication skills (oral, written and presentation)
- Excels under pressure
