Jun 11, 2012

Executive Protection Specialist

Company: Boeing 
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Provide close protection and facilitation services (in absence of their inherent staff) to senior executives comprising of Boeing Executive Council and Board of Directors. Provide same for other designated executives as directed. Collect protective intelligence, analyze data, develop processes, and conduct threat analysis to mitigate risk to protectees. Initiate actions to protect personnel, information and property. May act as team leader to coordinate and execute security activities for routine security details which includes events and travel. Respond to, assess, and take appropriate actions during emergency situations. Coordinate logistical support for events, venues and travel. Interpret intent, compile data, and communicate requirements in the written and verbal form to and from management and senior executive levels. Utilize lethal and non-lethal force applications
applicable to the situation.

Competencies

General

[ + ] Build Positive Relationships

Builds effective working relationships within the work group, with interorganizational employees, and occasionally with external customers. Probes for and provides information to clarify situations. Seeks and expands on original ideas, enhances others’ ideas, and contributes own ideas about the issues at hand. Places higher priority on team and organization goals than on own goals. Seeks agreement from work group, with other employees, and occasionally with external customers to support ideas or take partnership-oriented action; uses sound rationale to explain value of actions. Establishes good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions.

[ + ] Communication

Clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Keeps the audience engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Frames the message in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used. Accurately interprets messages from others and responds appropriately.

[ + ] Customer Focus

Makes customers and their needs a primary focus of one’s actions; develops and sustains productive customer relationships; uses information to understand customers’ circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; periodically becomes involved in sharing information with customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how actions or plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems; assists higher graded employees and/or project team leaders in implementing ways to monitor and evaluate customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs.

[ + ] Decision Making

Recognizes a wide range of potentially difficult issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and occasionally with external customers; determines whether action is needed. Identifies the need for and collects information to better understand difficult issues, problems, and opportunities. Integrates information from a wide variety of sources; detects trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships; creates relevant options for addressing difficult problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes. Formulates and/or makes recommendations for decision criteria based on issue complexity; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option. Implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time. Includes fellow work group members, employees across the organization, and occasionally external customers in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions.

[ + ] Project Management

Experienced in creating comprehensive project schedules identifying time frames for key project milestones. Directs and manages more complex project schedules; independently identifies project resource requirements, may collaborate with others on the most complex projects assigned or assist more experienced employees in complex large scale projects. Ability to accept, direct and perform responsibilities and work assigned tasks as a project team member in support of the overall project; leads and directs the activities and resources of assigned projects and supports higher graded employees in more large scale and complex projects.

Technical

[ + ] Analytical Skills

Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources at the department level.

[ + ] Customer Knowledge

Complete knowledge of techniques to help identify a customer’s organization, capabilities, practices, support resources, preferences, problems, and other constraints in order to provide effective product support and technical issue resolution.

[ + ] Project Leadership

Complete ability to accept, direct, and perform responsibilities and work assigned tasks as a project team member in support of the overall project. Complete ability to lead and direct the activities and resources of assigned projects and support higher graded employees in large scale and complex projects.

Basic Qualifications For Consideration

Are you willing to travel domestically and internationally 50% of the time each month (duration will vary from 2 to 10 consecutive days each trip)?

Do you have experience in close protection and the personal security of a customer or principal?

Typical Education/Experience

Bachelor’s and typically 6 or more years’ related work experience, a Master’s degree and typically 4 or more years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.


How to Apply

https://jobs.boeing.com/JobSeeker/JobView?reqcode=12-1011878