Armoury Manager

**REGIONAL ARMOURY MANAGER**

**REPORTING TO: NATIONAL ARMOURY MANAGER**

The Regional Armoury Manager is responsible for ensuring all Armoury operations on a Regional level are in compliance with the Firearm control act as well as driving the strategic objectives of the Armoury in achieving business goals.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- 5years experience in Middle management position
- 10 years experience in security industry
- Proven management role on a national level preferable
- PSIRA A registered
- Management NQF 5

**Key Performance Areas: (not totally inclusive)**:

- Manage all firearm expenses on a Regional level also ensuring cost effectiveness
- Daily recon of all regional SAPS licenses
- Management reports with regards to FAMS
- Managing and overseeing the physical verification of firearms in the region
- Writing and submitting of motivation letters to SAPS when required
- Compile and submit firearm incident reports for region
- Investigate any incidents that occur
- Reporting of all incidents to National Armory
- Escalating of all incidents as required
- Recommend disciplinary actions to incidents
- Maintain all regional firearms
- Destroy any confidential information safely and securely
- Distribution of all RF tags in the region
- Attend hearings as and when needed
- Set up and sign off duty roster for branch armoury controllers
- Conduct training and presentations for all branches as and when required
- Maintaining FAMS
- Ammunition control in region branches
- Capture and update FAMS system everyday with regards to armed employee details including: New firearm allocation, firearm movement, firearm training, firearm incidents, firearm licenses (renewed and new)
- Compile and distribute FAMS weekly reports and send to branches
- Compile and distribute FAMS monthly report to regional executive management
- Continuously seek to improve and streamline various processes of the Armoury
- Comply with group firearms policies and limits of authority.
- Conduct weekly/monthly site inspections
- Conduct weekly/monthly site audits
- Conduct regular monthly meetings
- Ensure all firearms and armoured/war vehicles comply with necessary legislation and regulations when firearms are transported
- Ensure compliance of all firearm custodians
- Check and ensure compliance of asset exception report
- Conduct Risk Assessment on all branches armed sites on a weekly/monthly basis, also new sites
- Create individual and team ownership for decisions, plans and strategies by collaborating with and empowering team members.
- Integrate and assign resources across the payroll function through effective workforce planning, to ensure efficient work streams.
- Effectively manage performance and discipline within the team in order to ensure business objectives are achieved.
- Provide clear leadership, promote and foster a team culture consistent with group values.
- Motivate, coach, mentor and develop direct reports, ensuring the continuous development of team, creating an organization-wide learning enabled environment.
- Embrace diversity and drive the Employment Equity strategy within functional area.
- Engage with various stakeholders across the business to drive communication and collaboration.
- Manage the succession planning process within area of responsibility.
- Represent FSG at all supplier meetings
- Ensure FSG offers the best partnerships with suppliers
- Maintain excellent supplier relationships
- Liase with SAPS on a daily basis and build good relationships with South African authorities
- Represent FSG in court in the case of incident hearings
- Write motivations for the SAPS for any new requirements
- Liase with SAPS for stolen/Robbed firearms
- Liase with SAPS regarding found firearms
- Liase with gunsmiths for the ordering of new firearms, cleaning, ammunition requirements as well as collecting firearms from police stations.
- Correspond with SAPS when any incident occurs and work together with legal department to ensure the assets of the business stays protected
- Supervise and manage branch personnel deliverables and drive performance to reach business objectives
- Conduct quarterly polygraph tests for firearms controllers in region
- Send out reminders of best practice to all branches Firearm scanning and
- Act as contact person for all queries that needs to be escalated to Executive management
- Any Ad Hoc duties as requested by Executive Management

**Other personality attributes**:

- Providing Leadership
- Driving Success
- Giving Support
- Structuring Tasks
- Adjusting to Change
- Communicating Information
- Building Relationships
- Showing Resilience
- Evaluating Problems
- Investigating Issues
- Creating Innovation
- Processing details

**Core Competencies**:

- Self-development
- Communication skills
- Customer focus
- Teamwork

**_Fidelity Services Group (Pty) Ltd supports global fair practice and business ethics on continuous development of our human capital as the key resource to our success