About the Role
Commissionaires Great Lakes (CGL) is a private, not-for-profit organization providing meaningful employment for veterans and others committed to the well-being of Canadians, primarily in security guard and related services. This role involves ensuring client property is secured, monitoring surveillance, and providing assistance to employees, clients, and visitors.
Responsibilities
- Ensure access control policies and procedures are followed and client property is secured
- Monitor CCTV cameras
- Maintain positive attitude and professional working relationships with employees, visitors and clients
- Complete site reporting requirements, daily logs and written reports
- Maintain high standards of personal appearance and deportment
- Maintain effective communication
- Respond to alarms and calls for assistance
- Provide assistance to employees, clients and visitors
- Perform regular interior and exterior foot patrols
- Monitoring and foot patrolling of parking lot
- Enforce the Trespass to Property Act when required
- Complete patrol and incident reports utilizing reporting software, and paper reports as required
- Sign visitors in and out along with ID checks
- Report concerns or complaints received to Supervisor or Manager
- Perform 'stand downs' at client locations to ensure continuity of guard service, as requested by supervisor or manager
- Be available to adjust schedule as required to accommodate the needs of the team
- Undertake all training assigned to you in a timely fashion
- Maintain professionalism at all times, during all interactions
- Liaise with Police, Fire, EMS as appropriate during incidents
- Other duties as may be required by the client or site supervisor
Requirements
- Ability to stand/sit/walk for long periods of time
- Ability to complete frequent patrols
- Must wear safety boots at all times on site
- Ability to lift up-to 25 lbs
- Must be highly reliable
- Must work well under pressure
- Must be able to work with minimal supervision
- Must have the ability to multitask
- Must be a professional who takes pride in your dress, deportment and performance at all times
Skills
- Strong computer skills
- Knowledge of usage of tablet/ipad
Location
- 1127 Sheppard Ave W, North York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Existing vacancy
Education Level
- Ontario Security Guard License
- Valid First Aid and CPR certificate
- Ability to obtain Level II Secret Clearance (resident in Canada 10 years or longer, clean record, clean credit history)
Salary/Compensations
- $22.00 per hour
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Employee assistance program
- Family Assistance program
- Coaching and counselling support
About the Company
- Commissionaires Great Lakes (CGL) is a private, not-for-profit organization founded in 1925 on a mandate that prioritizes providing meaningful employment for veterans and others committed to the well being of Canadians primarily in security guard and related services.
- Spanning Central and Southwestern Ontario, our services are customized to respond to the dynamic and evolving security needs of both private and public sector clients.
- These include uniformed guard, mobile response and support services, by-law enforcement and identification services.
Equal Opportunity
- Commissionaires Great Lakes (CGL) is fully committed to abiding by all equal opportunity employment standards.
- Our employment policies strictly prohibit all forms of discrimination on any of the grounds in relevant laws.
- All our employment practices are solely based on individual merit and our organization's needs at the time.
