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We believe focus, ownership, and excellence are decisive advantages - and we're building a world-class team to turn bold ideas into real capability. \nThis is a rare opportunity to join at an early stage, where you'll have significant ownership, collaborate with exceptional teammates, and make a direct, measurable impact on our mission and the future of the company - regardless of your function. \nPhysical Security Specialist \nThe Security Specialist on the Physical Security team at Castelion is responsible for protecting personnel, facilities, technology, and controlled information through access control, visitor management, credentialing, and security operations. In this role, you will serve as the primary point of contact for facility entry, support compliance with export control requirements, monitor security systems, and maintain a secure operating environment. This position offers the opportunity to directly support the protection of advanced defense technologies while contributing to the growth of Castelion’s security program.\n\nResponsibilities\nServe as the primary access control authority for employees, visitors, contractors, and vendors entering Castelion facilities.\nProcess visitors, validate access authorizations, coordinate host notifications, and ensure compliance with export control and company security requirements.\nProduce, issue, maintain, and account for employee, contractor, and visitor credentials and badge media.\nMonitor access control, CCTV, intrusion detection, and alarm systems and appropriately document and escalate security incidents.\nMaintain visitor, credential, and security records while supporting audits, compliance activities, and physical security program requirements.\nBasic Qualifications\nHigh school Diploma or GED.\n2+ years of experience in physical security, access control, visitor management, reception, customer service, military, or a related field.\nExperience verifying identities, credentials, and access authorizations.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact professionally with employees, visitors, and senior leaders.\nExperience using computers and standard business software applications to maintain records and documentation.\n\nPreferred Skills and Experience\nExperience in aerospace, defense, manufacturing, technology, critical infrastructure, or government environments.\nExperience operating visitor management systems, access control systems, CCTV platforms, and alarm monitoring systems.\nExperience issuing and managing employee, contractor, and visitor credentials.\nFamiliarity with International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), or export-controlled environments.\nExperience supporting front desk, lobby operations, security operations, or credentialing programs.\n\nAdditional Requirements\nAbility to put in extended hours, including evenings and weekends, when required to meet aggressive timelines.\nThis role is based in Allen, TX and requires full-time onsite presence.\nAbility to maintain professionalism while enforcing security requirements and denying access when necessary.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced operations environment.\nMust be able to pass a background investigation and any required pre=employment screening.\n\nPhysical Demands\nAbility to sit and stand for extended periods of time.\nAbility to occasionally move throughout office, manufacturing, and warehouse environments.\nAbility to occasionally lift and move items up to 40 pounds.\nOther Duties\nPlease note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing\nof activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties,\nresponsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.\nCastelion offers a generous benefits package. Please refer to the bottom of our Careers page for more details. \nOther Duties \nPlease note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. \nAdditional Eligibility Requirements \nThis position may require access to classified information or restricted U.S. Government sites, systems, or information, as determined by the Company and/or applicable U.S. Government requirements. If the position is so designated, your employment in the role may be contingent upon your ability to obtain and maintain the required U.S. Government security clearance or other government authorization, and to satisfy any citizenship or other eligibility requirements imposed by applicable law, regulation, executive order, or government contract requirements. You will be notified if and when such requirements apply. \nAffirmative Action/EEO Statement \nCastelion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. \nCastelion is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and hiring process. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, participate in the interview process, or otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact . Requests for accommodation will be considered on an individual basis and handled in accordance with applicable law. \nCastelion is committed to fostering a workplace where employment decisions are based on qualifications, business needs, and the ability to perform the essential functions of the role, with or without reasonable accommodation. \nEAR/ITAR Requirements \nThis position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6510,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"high_school","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Missiles","Defense Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-06T00:23:58Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":46,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early","comp:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-10T06:52:35Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/castelion-physical-security-specialist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/castelion-physical-security-specialist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T08:50:02Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":20485,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1795053},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1795053"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcastelion-physical-security-specialist"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcastelion-physical-security-specialist"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcastelion-physical-security-specialist"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/castelion-physical-security-specialist\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcastelion-physical-security-specialist"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3844941}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"castelion.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3844941},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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