RoleWe are seeking a highly experienced and well-rounded
Security Specialist to support our headquarters location in Santa Clara, California.
Applied Materials is growing at a pace that is driving significant increases in headcount and critical facilities. As a result, we expect over the next five years to have the most exciting and active R&D and manufacturing infrastructure pipeline in our history. The Global Security Operations (GSO) team is responsible for the strategic development, risk oversight, and execution of security operations across all company locations. As a member of the Headquarters Campus team, you will play an exciting and important role in our success.
The
Security Specialist role blends deep physical security and asset protection expertise with strong program management, investigative knowledge, workplace threat assessment and crisis response capabilities to ensure the protection of personnel, intellectual property and physical assets. The ideal candidate will be a successful security practitioner with proven corporate experience and the ability to collaborate across multiple business functions and external response agencies.
This is a new position based in the greater Sunnyvale/Santa Clara area and will be responsible for supporting the greater North America security team as well as the local headquarters location. You will be responsible to partner with external public agencies, local business unit leaders, functional subject-matter-experts (Real Estate, EHS, BCP, IT), Finance, Legal, Employee Relations, Procurement and other stakeholders to align on business requirements and common goals. This role will provide investigative capabilities, audit support, and workplace violence threat assessment, along with a wide variety of analytical and project based deliverables to help deliver operational security plans and objectives.
This position reports to the Sr. Security Manager of California for Global Security Operations and is based in Santa Clara, CA. The role requires travel up to 20%.
Program Components Include- Physical Security
- Investigations
- Workplace Violence Behavioral Threat Assessment & Management (BTAM)
- Lab/Intellectual Property
- SecuritySupply Chain Security
- Business Continuity Planning
- Incident Command/Crisis Response
Key Responsibilities- Support the Global Security Operations team in North American, particularly in Santa Clara to build strong working relationships with senior level stakeholders and key business partners.
- Design and implement security awareness and training programs in partnership with internal stakeholders.
- Partner with peer groups in Compliance, Legal and Employee Relations to effectively manage workplace threats and security investigations.
- Build relationships with business unit partners and technical security project management teams to scope security requirements based on established principles and guidelines.
- Conduct audits and reviews of supply chain processes, manufacturing facilities, labs and warehouses to ensure proper handling of critical intellectual property and security risks.
- Create security marketing, training, awareness and branding for Global Security initiatives
- Establish policy and procedures
Skills, Knowledge, Experience & EducationThe ideal candidate will have the following:
- 5+ years of experience in a corporate security related field.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field required.
- Demonstrated experience in leading and conducting investigations.
- Workplace violence and Behavioral Threat Analysis & Management (BTAM) experience
- Demonstrated collaboration skills across own organization and partner organizations (IT, Legal, Employee Relations, Facilities, Finance, etc.) to drive and deliver exceptional service.
- Ability to influence cross-functional teams.
- Deep knowledge if industry best practices and performance metrics.
- Experience in safety, business continuity, state-of-the-art asset protection systems and emergency management.
- Skilled in strategic planning and global security program management.
- Customer-focused and service-oriented mindset.
- Strong organizational and decision-making skills.
- Excellent presentation and communication abilities.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, AI tools and common security applications.
- Capable of influencing leadership and working in a matrixed environment.
Other Suitability FactorsTo succeed in this role requires a
capacity for complexity and
temperament that includes:
- A very mature individual with the right balance of confidence and humility
- Process oriented while also strongly developing and relying on interpersonal relationships across the company
- Ability to connect equally well upwards, downwards and sideways in the organization
- Self-motivated and driven towards excellence
Additional InformationTime Type:Full time
Employee Type:Assignee / Regular
Travel:Yes, 20% of the Time
Relocation Eligible:No
The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.
For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.
