Director Physical Security - East

At GAF, we cover more than buildings. We cover each other. No matter what role, tenure, or track, under this roof you are empowered to be there for your teammates, your customers, and especially your community. Under this roof, we don’t back down from hard work– we support one another in pursuit of something bigger. We define the future while leading the present. And under this roof, we own our opportunities. Becoming the market leader only happens when everyone feels they have the opportunity, and the support, to thrive. We are GAF. And under this roof, we protect what matters most. Job Summary The Director of Physical Security is responsible for overseeing and managing all aspects of physical security across GAF, GAF Energy, SIPLAST, SGI, and Standard Logistics sites within the eastern United States. This role includes supervising regional security leads, managing security coordinators, and ensuring the implementation of a comprehensive, intelligence-driven, and risk-based corporate security program. The Director is tasked with mitigating systemic security risks, managing an integrated physical security ecosystem, and enforcing standards for prevention, incident response, and recovery. Key responsibilities include conducting security assessments, developing and implementing security policies and training programs, managing guard forces, and leading security enhancement projects. Additionally, the Director provides strategic guidance to plant managers, coordinates security operations during heightened risk periods, and ensures the development of contingency plans and security awareness programs. This role also involves investigating security incidents, analyzing risk trends, and maintaining communication with the Global Head of Security to ensure the safety and security of all personnel, facilities, and operations. Essential Duties Directs all facets of physical security across GAF, GAF Energy, SIPLAST, SGI, and Standard Logistics sites within the eastern United States. Supervises the Regional Physical Security Lead in Dallas, TX, maintaining direct responsibility for their activities and providing high-level oversight for all western region plants. Manages the GAF Headquarters Security Coordinator located in Parsippany, NJ and has direct oversight of the responsibilities of this position, Guard Force Management, Access Control, collaboration with Executives, and VIP visitations. Provide strategic governance and oversight for the enterprise-wide, intelligence-driven, and risk-based corporate security program. This role is accountable for executing the strategy to proactively mitigate systemic security risks—including Terrorism, Violent/Property Crime, Political Instability, and Civil Disorder—across all personnel, critical processes, technology, facilities, and operational footprints. The primary focus is to manage the enterprise security resilience framework to reduce the Total Cost of Risk (TCoR) by enforcing standards for prevention, incident response, crisis management, and recovery capabilities across all Company Companies and sites. Manage an integrated corporate physical security ecosystem, ensuring that risk, vulnerability, and threat management, security technology, and operational processes function collaboratively to deliver intelligence-led, risk-managed security operations, and apply effective controls across all company facilities to minimize the impact of security events. Direct and oversee the OpCo’s Physical Security Assessment and Audit Program. This includes defining and enforcing adherence to the physical security assessment methodology, which focuses on perimeter protection, access control, CCTV systems, and security culture. The Director is responsible for tracking the development and ensuring the timely implementation of site-specific security improvement plans derived from audit findings, in coordination with Plant and site leaders. Apply access control measures based on risk and consistent with the principle that all employees, visitors, and guests have the right to be safe in their work environment. As directed by the Global Head of Security, provide guidance and direction relating to physical security to Plant Managers and site leaders in accordance with the physical security plan. Develops Physical Security policies and SOPs for all locations in harmony with the strategy set by the Global Head of Security. For plants having a contracted guard force, provide the Regional Physical Security Lead and the Plant Managers with guidance and direction relating to guard force duties, access control, post orders, guard SOPs, and uniform standards. Review and adjust the guard post orders as needed. As needed, train the contracted guard force on all