Role & responsibilities

Roles & Responsibilities

Access Control & Campus Entry Management

- Manage all campus entry/exit points; define and enforce access protocols for students, staff, faculty, visitors, vendors, and contractors with documented registers and identity verification.
- Implement and enforce campus vehicle access and parking zone policies for two-wheelers, four-wheelers, buses, and delivery vehicles.
- Manage internal traffic flow, deploy traffic marshals at peak hours, and prevent congestion at entry/exit points.
- Maintain accurate gate registers (vehicle, visitor, contractor/vendor, after-hours) and enforce no-entry zone protocols for labs, server rooms, examination halls, and hostel areas.

Student Safety & Daily Security Operations

- Ensure student safety through anti-ragging watch, hostel perimeter monitoring, and coverage of canteen, library, and sports areas.
- Manage 24x7 guard deployment with shift-wise rostering and zero unguarded posts.
- Submit a Daily Security Report to Dean Admin and Admin Manager covering deployment, incidents, gate activity, and CCTV status.
- Oversee CCTV surveillance uptime, footage retention (minimum 30 days), and biometric verification of security agency staff against billed headcount.
- Maintain lost-and-found, incident, and FIR registers with defined follow-up SLAs.

Event Security & Crowd Management

- Plan and execute security deployment for campus events fests, sports meets, convocations, Chairman visits, and industry summits with a written Event Security Plan for each event.
- Manage crowd control, barricading, queue management, and segregated entry/exit flows for large gatherings.




- Coordinate event power supply safety with the Campus Engineer and conduct pre-event security sweeps.
- Manage VIP security during high-profile visits and submit a Post-Event Security Report within 48 hours of event closure.

Contractor Management & Cost Controls

- Verify monthly security agency billing against actual deployment; reject billing for undeployed posts and apply penalty clauses.
- Maintain a Security Agency Billing Verification Register and ensure agency staff meet contractual standards (uniform, fitness, police verification, training).
- Track security equipment inventory and manage AMC for boom barriers, CCTV, access control panels, and intercom systems.

Desired Candidate Profile

- 15+ years of experience in campus, institutional, hospital, or industrial security, including guard force and contractor management.
- Working knowledge of PSARA 2005, Tamil Nadu Private Security Agencies Rules, Occupational Safety Health & Working Conditions Code 2020, and POSH obligations relating to campus safety.
- Demonstrated experience in CCTV/electronic security systems oversight, event security planning, and crisis/emergency response coordination.
- Solid MIS and reporting discipline, with the ability to present daily, weekly, and monthly security data to senior management.
- Ex-Services / Ex-Police background preferred; strong stakeholder coordination skills across administration, facilities, IT, and transport functions.

Reporting Structure

- Reports To: Dean – Administration / Chairman's Office
- Peer Coordination: IT Head (CCTV), Campus Engineer, Transport Head, AO – Business Units, Estate Officer, Admin Manager
- Supervises: Security Supervisors, Security Guards (own cadre and contractual agency personnel)

📌 Chief Security Officer (Chennai)
🏢 SRM Institute of Science and Technology
📍 Chennai