Armoury Manager at Fidelity Services Group

Minimum Requirements:

• 5years experience in Middle management position
• 10 years experience in security industry
• Proven management role on a national level preferable
• PSIRA A registered
• Management NQF 5

Key Performance Areas: (not totally inclusive):

• Manage all firearm expenses on a Regional level also ensuring cost effectiveness
• Daily recon of all regional SAPS licenses
• Management reports with regards to FAMS
• Managing and overseeing the physical verification of firearms in the region
• Writing and submitting of motivation letters to SAPS when required
• Compile and submit firearm incident reports for region
• Investigate any incidents that occur
• Reporting of all incidents to National Armory
• Escalating of all incidents as required
• Recommend disciplinary actions to incidents
• Maintain all regional firearms
• Destroy any confidential information safely and securely
• Distribution of all RF tags in the region
• Attend hearings as and when needed
• Set up and sign off duty roster for branch armoury controllers
• Conduct training and presentations for all branches as and when required
• Maintaining FAMS
• Ammunition control in region branches
• Capture and update FAMS system everyday with regards to armed employee details including: New firearm allocation, firearm movement, firearm training, firearm incidents, firearm licenses (renewed and new)
• Compile and distribute FAMS weekly reports and send to branches
• Compile and distribute FAMS monthly report to regional executive management
• Continuously seek to improve and streamline various processes of the Armoury
• Comply with group firearms policies and limits of authority.
• Conduct weekly/monthly site inspections
• Conduct weekly/monthly site audits
• Conduct regular monthly meetings
• Ensure all firearms and armoured/war vehicles comply with necessary legislation and regulations when firearms are transported
• Ensure compliance of all firearm custodians
• Check and ensure compliance of asset exception report
• Conduct Risk Assessment on all branches armed sites on a weekly/monthly basis, also new sites
• Create individual and team ownership for decisions, plans and strategies by collaborating with and empowering team members.
• Integrate and assign resources across the payroll function through effective workforce planning, to ensure efficient work streams.
• Effectively manage performance and discipline within the team in order to ensure business objectives are achieved.
• Provide clear leadership, promote and foster a team culture consistent with group values.
• Motivate, coach, mentor and develop direct reports, ensuring the continuous development of team, creating an organization-wide learning enabled environment.
• Embrace diversity and drive the Employment Equity strategy within functional area.
• Engage with various stakeholders across the business to drive communication and collaboration.
• Manage the succession planning process within area of responsibility.
• Represent FSG at all supplier meetings
• Ensure FSG offers the best partnerships with suppliers
• Maintain excellent supplier relationships
• Liase with SAPS on a daily basis and build good relationships with South African authorities
• Represent FSG in court in the case of incident hearings
• Write motivations for the SAPS for any new requirements
• Liase with SAPS for stolen/Robbed firearms
• Liase with SAPS regarding found firearms
• Liase with gunsmiths for the ordering of new firearms, cleaning, ammunition requirements as well as collecting firearms from police stations.
• Correspond with SAPS when any incident occurs and work together with legal department to ensure the assets of the business stays protected
• Supervise and manage branch personnel deliverables and drive performance to reach business objectives
• Conduct quarterly polygraph tests for firearms controllers in region
• Send out reminders of best practice to all branches Firearm scanning and
• Act as contact person for all queries that needs to be escalated to Executive management
• Any Ad Hoc duties as requested by Executive Management

Other personality attributes:

• Providing Leadership
• Driving Success
• Giving Support
• Structuring Tasks
• Adjusting to Change
• Communicating Information
• Building Relationships
• Showing Resilience
• Evaluating Problems
• Investigating Issues
• Creating Innovation
• Processing details

Core Competencies:

• Self-development
• Communication skills
• Customer focus
• Teamwork