Security Operations Manager
Swansea, ILJob$47K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
Allied Universal is hiring for a security role serving clients across industries including commercial real estate, healthcare, education, and government. The role provides customer service while carrying out safety and security procedures, responding to incidents, and conducting patrols. Applicants must meet age and education or experience criteria and may be subject to background and drug screening.
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Company Overview:
Allied Universal®, North America’s leading security and facility services company, offers rewarding careers that provide you a sense of purpose. While working in a dynamic, welcoming, and collaborative workplace, you will be part of a team that contributes to a culture that positively impacts the communities and customers we serve.
Salary: $47,483.08 Annually
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As a Security Officer, you will serve and safeguard clients in a range of industries such as Commercial Real Estate, Healthcare, Education, Government and more.
Responsibilities:
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Provide customer service to our clients by carrying out safety and security procedures, site-specific policies and when appropriate, emergency response activities
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Respond to incidents and critical situations in a calm, problem solving manner
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Conduct regular and random patrols around the business and perimeter. Working environments and conditions may vary by client site.
Minimum Requirements:
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Be at least 18 years of age for unarmed roles; 21+ years of age for armed roles
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Possess a high school diploma or equivalent, or 5 years of verifiable experience
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As a condition of employment, applicants will be subject to a background investigation in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws. Allied Universal will consider qualified applications with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable laws.
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As a condition of employment, applicants will be subject to a drug screen to the extent permitted by law.
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Licensing requirements are subject to state and/or local laws and regulations and may be required prior to employment.*A valid driver’s license will be required for driving positions only
Benefits:
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Medical, dental, vision, basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance
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Company's retirement plans
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Seven holidays annually paid at time and a half, if worked
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40 hours of vacation after one year of employment at eligible work assignments; unused vacation is only paid out where required by law
Allied Universal® is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, age, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or relationship/association with a protected veteran, or any other basis or characteristic protected by law. For more information: www.aus.com
If you have difficulty using the online system and require an alternate method to apply or require an accommodation, please contact our local Human Resources department. To find an office near you, please visit: www.aus.com/offices .
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Job ID: 2026-1714586
Location: United States-Illinois-Swansea
Job Category: Security Officer
How this job compares
Set against the 2,393 open Security Officer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$47K/yr
- US median$60–96K/yr127 salary ranges
This rate, $47K, is 38% below the US median midpoint ($77K) — in the lowest quarter of Security Officer salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 61 open Security Officer jobs in Illinois and 2,393 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Experience
- Security Officer postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (617 postings).
- Education
- 27 of the 2,393 open Security Officer jobs (1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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