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Hiring Agency:
State Patrol - Agency 64
Location:
Lincoln, NE
Hiring Rate:
$35.500
Job Posting:
JR2026-00030082 Capitol Security Officer Supervisor (Open)
Applications No Longer Accepted On (If no date is displayed, job is posted as open until closed):
11-09-2026
Job Description:
Our Capitol Security Officer Supervisor has the responsibility of protecting our beautiful State Capitol building and surrounding state buildings while leading a team of Security Officers. You'll have the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of people in a calm, compassionate manner.
Job Duties:
• Plan, organize, assign and direct the work activities of assigned staff to ensure adherence to established security protocols.
• Reviews and compares work performance of assigned staff with established standards to determine employee production levels, training needs, and recommendations to management concerning personnel actions such as promotions, disciplinary actions, status changes, and separations.
• Supervises and participates in the operation and oversight of screening checkpoints using x-ray, metal detection, and other screening tools to verify credentials, inspect bags, and identify prohibited items such as weapons or explosives.
• Provide professional customer service to employees and visitors, enforcing rules and de-escalating tense situations.
• Ability to interact professionally with diverse individuals from the community.
• Supervises and participates in conducting regular patrols of the interior of the building to detect suspicious activity.
• Responds promptly to Security incidents, alarms, disturbances, or emergencies, providing first response and coordinating with law enforcement or emergency services.
• Reports suspicious activities to local authorities.
• Reasonably detains persons suspected of criminal activity until law enforcement arrives.
• Escorts discharged staff, trespassers, and other unwelcome parties off the premises.
• Writes and submits reports to provide an accurate record of activities and occurrences such as unlawful acts, unusual incidents, bomb threats, or disruptive or noncomplying citizens.
• Operates audio/visual monitoring devices, as needed.
• Occasional travel to other state buildings to provide requested security services.
• Complete annual range certification.
• Other duties as assigned.
Requirements/Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications: Possess previous supervisory experience and must either (1) possess current law-enforcement certification recognized by the State of Nebraska, or (2) be a qualified retired law-enforcement officer meeting the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 926C, including current firearms qualification. Must be able to meet minimum qualification requirement with agency issued firearms. Must meet physical demands, such as, ability to stand for extended periods (often entire shift), capable of responding quickly to potential threats, ability to perform repetitive screening tasks, ability to climb several flights of stairs.
Legal Requirements: Background check resulting in no serious misdemeanors and no felony convictions. Must possess a valid driver’s license.
Other: Regular and reliable attendance is expected. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to your applicant information. Failure to complete all areas of your employment application may result in your application being disqualified from our selection process. Applicants will be screened for a record of criminal activity and criminal history using a fingerprint-based check, and before a final offer of employment is made. Applicants must be free of felony convictions. Applicants cannot maintain a continuous association or dealings with persons, groups, or organizations that they know, or should know are persons or groups or organizations under criminal investigation or indictment or who have a reputation for present, ongoing involvement in felonious or criminal behavior. Applicant must successfully complete an extensive background screening prior to being employed, which includes completion of a Personal History Questionnaire. Selection process will include an interview.
Knowledge of:
- Agency and state security policies, procedures, and guidelines
- Agency and state security equipment and alarm systems
Ability to:
- Plan, assign, direct, evaluate, and supervise assigned staff
- Operate basic and advanced personal computers
- Communicate in person, by telephone, radio, computer, email, and correspondence with state employees, government officials, visitors, and the public to exchange information
- Follow instructions
- Apply work guidelines without the immediate presence of the supervisor
- Read and understand labels, signs, guidelines, and instructions
- Explain technical rules and standards to coworkers and others; examine the components or elements of equipment, instruments, data, or situations
- Pay attention to remember and record details of incidents, people, places, and things
- Summarize facts and/or figures into reports
- Select and recommend a course of action from alternatives
- Apply first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) procedures
- Learn State and employing agency safety/security policies, procedures, and guidelines
- Learn electronic monitoring devices and their operations used by the employing agency
- Operate equipment and vehicles used to perform assigned duties
- Make decisions in emergency situations under pressure while remaining calm and in control of the situation
- Handle more than one situation at a time.
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Benefits
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Equal Opportunity Statement
The State of Nebraska values our teammates as well as a supportive environment that strives to promote diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We recruit, hire, train, and promote in all job classifications and at all levels without regard to race, color, religion, sex. age, national origin, disability, marital status or genetics.
