Security Programs Manager

The job

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Job description

Company Overview

Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables.

Job Summary

Kairos Power is seeking a Security Manager to lead and oversee physical security operations across the company’s facilities.  This position is responsible for developing and implementing a consistent, risk-based physical security program that protects employees, visitors, the public, facilities, information, and company assets.  The Security Manager will manage security operations, contract security providers, access control, video surveillance, visitor management.  They will participate in incident response, investigations, and emergency preparedness activities. The ideal candidate is a trusted security professional with strong leadership, communication, customer service, and vendor-management skills. The Security Manager will collaborate with Facilities, Construction, Environment, Health and Safety (EHS), Information Technology (IT), Human Resources, Legal, Office Administration, site leadership, and local authorities to support secure and reliable operations aligned with Kairos Power’s mission.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain Kairos Power’s companywide physical security strategy, policies, standards, procedures, and post orders.
• Provide consistent physical security oversight across Kairos Power sites.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of physical security systems and recommend upgrades or improvements based on operational risks, emerging threats, and company growth.
• Manage contract security providers, including scopes of work, staffing requirements, service-level expectations, performance metrics, invoice review, and contract compliance.
• Lead or support investigations involving theft, unauthorized access, property damage, suspicious activity, policy violations, and other security-related incidents.
• Support employee and contractor badging, access authorization, onboarding, offboarding, and periodic access reviews in coordination with Human Resources, EHS, IT, and Facilities.
• Partner with Construction, EHS, Facilities, and IT to incorporate physical security requirements into new construction, facility expansions, renovations, and system upgrades.
• Develop and manage security budgets while identifying opportunities to improve effectiveness and control costs without compromising safety or security.
• Travel periodically to Kairos Power locations to conduct site assessments, coordinate security activities, support projects, and respond to operational needs.
• Other duties as assigned 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in security management, criminal justice, emergency management, business administration, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• Five or more years of progressively responsible experience in physical security management, corporate security, law enforcement, military security, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing physical security policies, procedures, standards, and programs.
• Experience managing physical security operations across multiple facilities, preferably within an office, laboratory, R&D, industrial, manufacturing, critical infrastructure, or other high-consequence environment.
• Experience managing contract security providers, vendor relationships, budgets, and service-level performance.
• Experience administering or overseeing access control, video surveillance, alarm monitoring, and visitor management systems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead security personnel and coordinate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with emergency response planning, incident management, and crisis coordination.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Working knowledge of access control, credential management, video surveillance, alarm monitoring, visitor management, and incident management technologies.
• Knowledge of contract security operations, guard-force management, post orders, staffing models, and vendor-performance management.
• Knowledge of emergency preparedness, incident command principles, crisis management, workplace violence prevention, and business continuity practices.
• Ability to evaluate security threats and vulnerabilities and translate findings into practical, risk-based corrective actions.
• Ability to develop clear, scalable security policies, procedures, standards, post orders, and training materials.
• Strong leadership and decision-making skills, including the ability to remain composed and act effectively during emergencies or high-pressure situations.
• Strong investigation, interviewing, documentation, and report-writing skills.
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and executive-briefing skills.
• Strong interpersonal and customer-service skills with the ability to build trusted relationships across multiple departments and locations.
• Ability to handle sensitive, confidential, and investigative information with discretion and integrity.
• Strong organizational, project-management, and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative, and mission-driven environment.

Physical Demands

• Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, scissor lifts, articulated boom lifts and the like
• Setting up and transferring temporary structures (e.g. scaffolding, ladders)
• Moving self in different positions to accomplish tasks in various environments including tight and confined spaces
• Remaining in a stationary position, often standing, or sitting for prolonged periods
• Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another
• Adjusting, moving, transporting, installing, positioning, or removing objects up to 50 pounds in all directions
• Communicating with others to exchange information
• Operating motor vehicles, heavy equipment or machinery
• Use hand tools
• Repetitive assembly operations of manufacturing test fixtures and test setups in collaboration with engineering and manufacturing teams 

Environmental Conditions

• General office environment
• Low temperatures
• High temperatures
• Outdoor environment or elements such as precipitation and wind
• Noisy environments
• Small and/or enclosed spaces
• Odors or fumes from chemicals or chemical reactions
• Elevated heights
• High-concentration, demanding and fast-paced

Safety and PPE

• Reading and interpreting hazardous warning signs
• Reporting issues with equipment or unsafe conditions
• Color identification: detecting, distinguishing, recognizing and identifying colors
• Wearing proper PPE, to include face mask, face shields, gloves, safety shoes, etc.

Travel

• Some travel may be required for training or assistance to other Kairos Power Facilities, up to 20%

Additional Requirements

• Requires overtime occasionally.
• Requires working weekends rarely.
• Requires schedule flexibility frequently.
• Requires extended hours to support on-call responsibilities occasionally

The salary range for this position is $113,791 to $133,872 for employees working onsite at our Alameda, CA headquarters. The range provided in this job posting represents the typical range or starting rate of candidates hired in California. Factors that maybe used to determine your actual salary may include your education, experience, knowledge, skills, ability and the market data for your work location, and a comparison to other employees already in the role.

#LI-Onsite 

About our Benefits

We know that we have some of the most talented and dedicated employees, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, full-time employees (excludes interns) expect to have access to the benefits below:

• Competitive compensation packages
• Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
• Paid Vacation
• 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)

Kairos Power is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the communities where we do business. Kairos Power is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We actively welcome people of different experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

Kairos Power participates in E-Verify.

Candidates only, no recruiters or agencies please.

Note: You are applying for a position that is located in a facility that handles information that is subject to export control restrictions by the Department of Energy under 10 CFR Part 810. To work in this facility, you need to be authorized by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information. Foreign nationals who are citizens of countries that are not on the Department of Energy’s general authorization list (link below) are not permitted to work in our facility unless the Department of Energy issues an export control license to the company to permit that individual to have access to Part 810-controlled information. The following questions are intended to determine the licensing requirements that may apply. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/appendix-A_to_part_810

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California is in the West region (Pacific division) and has 39,287,376 residents (the 1st largest of the 50 states and DC by population), with a median age of 37.9. Its economy produced about $4,438,822 million in the latest four quarters (BEA), 1st among states and DC, equal to $112,983 per resident.

Jobs and the labour market

The unemployment rate was 5.1% in 2026M09, which is 49th lowest of 51 (1st is the lowest). Employers had job openings equal to 3.6% of employment, 37th highest of 51, a measure of how hard it is to hire. The median wage across all occupations is $58,240 a year ($28.00 an hour), 14% above the national median ($58,240 against $50,980).

What people do and what it pays

The occupations with the most jobs in California are Home Health and Personal Care Aides (970,150 jobs, median $34,320); Fast Food and Counter Workers (449,840 jobs, median $42,280); Retail Salespersons (376,460 jobs, median $38,440); Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand (355,500 jobs, median $44,710); Registered Nurses (338,940 jobs, median $140,270). Among occupations with at least 2,000 jobs, the best paid are Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers (median $353,900); Psychiatrists (median $353,500); General Internal Medicine Physicians (median $313,890). Compared with the nation, the state is most specialised in farming, fishing, and forestry (4.1 times the national share of workers) and healthcare support (1.5 times the national share of workers).

Cost of living, taxes and workplace rules

Prices are above the national average in California: the regional price parity is 110.7 against 100 for the whole country (51st lowest of 51). Median gross rent is $2,036 a month and the median household income $99,122, so a year of rent equals 24.6% of income; the median home value is $734,700. The state minimum wage is $16.90 (the higher of state and federal rates applies to most workers). State income tax on wages: Graduated, top rate 13.30%. It is not a right-to-work state, so union contracts can require fees from covered workers. It runs a state paid family and medical leave programme.

People and commuting

27.0% of residents were born abroad and 37.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Among workers, 65.7% drive alone, 2.9% use public transit and 17.2% work from home; 19.4% commute 45 minutes or more.

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