# Target Security Specialist

**Company**: Target
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $23.00 USD - $34.50 USD per hour
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

As a Target Security Specialist, you will play a crucial role in creating a safe and secure environment for our guests and team members.

You will be part of our Assets Protection team, which focuses on providing a secure environment, responding to crisis events, investigating and resolving theft, and educating team members on operational shortage priorities.

In this role, you will:

- Support sales by welcoming and engaging guests and team members at the front of store and on the sales floor

- Help guests find products they are looking for, both in-store and online

- Lead a physical security culture by assessing and maintaining safe and secure standards throughout the store

- Respond to and accurately document security incidents

- Conduct productive merchandise recoveries and provide apprehension support as needed

- Prevent theft and shortage at the front of store by performing receipt checks for exposed high-dollar merchandise

- Submit documentation in the system for all incidents following AP policy and procedures

- Utilize Target's video surveillance system

- Train team members on operational shortage focus area opportunities and merchandise protection

- Execute shortage action plans set by AP leadership to minimize shortage in focus areas

We are looking for someone with:

- A high school diploma or equivalent

- A minimum age of 18 years old

- A welcoming and helpful attitude towards guests and other team members

- Effective communication skills

- Ability to work both independently and with a team

- Ability to manage workload and prioritize tasks independently

As a Target Security Specialist, you will have the opportunity to gain skills in:

- Intelligence-led tactics to keep team members and guests safe and secure

- Crisis response, safety, and crowd management

- De-escalation techniques

- Recovering stolen merchandise to prevent shortage

- Utilizing Target's video surveillance system

- Properly documenting cases using industry case management systems

We offer competitive benefits, including financial, education, and well-being benefits. You can learn more about our benefits eligibility for this role at https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_A.

## Skills

### Required
- intelligence-led tactics
- crisis response
- safety and crowd management
- de-escalation techniques
- video surveillance system
- case management systems
- effective communication skills

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