Chief of Security
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Job overview
CoreCivic seeks a Chief of Security to coordinate and monitor facility security operations, ensure appropriate staffing across shifts and posts, and maintain the safety and security of staff and inmates. The role promotes compliance with applicable policies, procedures, rules, regulations, and standards. A bachelor's degree is required, though qualifying full-time correctional supervisory experience may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis.
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Full job description
At CoreCivic, our employees are driven by a deep sense of service, high standards of professionalism and a responsibility to better the public good.
CoreCivic is currently seeking a Chief of Security who has a passion for providing the highest quality care in an institutional, secure setting. Come join a team that is dedicated to making an impact for the people and communities we serve.
Job Description:
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The Chief of Security coordinates and monitors the overall security operations of the facility, ensuring proper staffing levels for all shifts and posts, and maintaining safety and security of staff and inmates.
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Promotes compliance with all applicable policies, procedures, rules, regulations and standards.
Qualifications:
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Graduate from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's degree is required, preferably in Social or Behavioral Science or a related field.
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Four (4) years of correctional work experience, including two (2) years of experience as a Shift Supervisor, Unit Manager and/or CoreCivic department head, or equivalent, is required.
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Correctional work experience must include three (3) years supervisory experience of correctional employees.
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Additional qualifying full-time correctional supervisory experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.
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Must demonstrate knowledge of correctional custody methods and techniques, pertinent facility rules, regulations and standards, principles and practices of supervision and training.
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Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications is required.
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A valid driver's license is required.
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Minimum age requirement: Must be at least 21 years of age.
CoreCivicis a Drug-Free Workplace and EOE – including Disability/Veteran
How this job compares
Set against the 2,790 open Security jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$133–221K/yr63 salary ranges
- US median$18–19/hr694 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 286 open Security jobs in Texas and 2,790 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Security postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,491 postings).
- Education
- 674 of the 2,790 open Security jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 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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