🛡️ Director, Industrial Security

📍 Salt Lake City, UT | 100% On-Site

🔐 Active DoD TS/SCI Clearance Required

💼 Director-Level Leadership | Aerospace & Defense

Lead Security Strategy for a Mission-Critical Defense Organization

We’re looking for an experienced Director of Industrial Security to lead and coordinate security operations across a complex aerospace and defense organization.

This is a highly visible leadership role responsible for developing and overseeing a comprehensive, risk-based security program that protects personnel, classified information, facilities, technology, and corporate assets while ensuring compliance with government and customer requirements.

You’ll partner directly with senior business and functional leaders across IT, HR, Legal, Facilities, Communications, and Operations while serving as a key interface with U.S. Government security, intelligence, investigative, and law enforcement organizations.

🔥 What You’ll Lead

Develop and implement enterprise security policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines
Provide strategic direction for industrial and corporate security programs
Identify and mitigate security risks involving personnel, facilities, classified information, foreign travel, and corporate assets
Oversee programs protecting classified, proprietary, and sensitive information
Advise senior leadership on security requirements, risk mitigation, and compliance
Interpret government security regulations and work directly with U.S. Government representatives
Serve as a primary liaison with DoD, intelligence agencies, law enforcement, investigative agencies, and other government stakeholders
Lead investigations involving security violations, threats, fraud, theft, and ethical concerns
Support security requirements associated with M&A, divestitures, and organizational transitions
Coordinate executive protection and security support for senior executives and high-profile visitors
Support crisis management and emergency response planning
Develop and conduct security audits, inspections, assessments, and continuous-improvement initiatives
Provide risk analysis and oversight for travel to high- and extreme-risk countries
Serve as the primary security interface with broader Segment Security leadership

🎯 What We're Looking For

15+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree
or 13+ years with a Graduate degree
or 19+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree
Active DoD TS/SCI security clearance
5+ years of people-management experience
Strong background in industrial security and classified environments
Experience supporting government and/or defense security programs
Strong understanding of government security compliance requirements
Excellent judgment, risk-analysis, communication, and leadership skills
Ability to work effectively with senior executives and government stakeholders

⭐ Preferred Experience

Experience with several of the following is highly desirable:

ITAR
NATO
SCI
SAP
Foreign Government Information (FGI)
Emergency management
Security policy development
Enterprise risk analysis
DoD and U.S. intelligence agency interactions
Federal, state, and local investigative/law enforcement organizations

🚀 Why This Role?

This is much more than a traditional facility security position.

You'll have the opportunity to shape security strategy across a major defense organization, influence executive decision-making, lead a talented security team, and work directly with government stakeholders on complex national-security matters.

Your leadership will directly impact the protection of:

🔐 Classified information

👥 Personnel

🏢 Critical facilities

💻 Sensitive technology

🌎 International operations

🛡️ Corporate and government assets

If you're a seasoned industrial security leader with an active TS/SCI clearance and the experience to operate at the executive level, this is an opportunity to make a significant impact in the defense industry.

📩 Interested? Message me directly or apply to learn more.

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