Job Description
The job of a security guard in an armored money transporting car is to drive the armored van with transport money and valuables, to guard the cash and other valuables during the transport.
He is also supposed to load and carry the bags full of coins and cash into and from the armored van at banks and other customer establishments.
The security jobs also involve issuing and receiving receipts from clientele to confirm transport of cash and valuables.
Requirements/Skills/Training
For security guard jobs in armored cars the security guard needs to have a further additional training along with the basic armed guard's training that is given in general.
They should be aptly tasked to handle the responsibility of managing sizeable amounts of cash regularly.
The groups of security guards are tasked for driving about in an area and delivering cash to ATM operators, banks and retailers.
Academics
The security guard for an armored money transporting car needs to pass strict tests that check their backgrounds along with their basic behavior and nature.
Career Prospects
Armored car security jobs are more common in the urban areas where there is a lot of traffic on the road. Such security guard jobs often tend to pay more than the normal security guard jobs. These are secured jobs, which are even more secure if the employees can prove their loyalty.
Employment Outlook
Representing a rich combination of liability and accountability by functioning as an armored car security guard may help the individual come face to face with a lot of new opportunities in context of law enforcement and a lot of other security job options of an advanced kind. This can include opportunities like working for banks and casinos and that too at times is one of the more responsible higher positions. At times the armored car companies will collaborate and hence offer health benefits and retirement packages as well.
Salaries
The median annual salary of a security guard who works for an armored money transporting car varies from $29,000 to $46,000. For instances of overtime, extra wages are given in such security guard jobs.
Yearly wage and salary combined earnings of security guards were $21,530 in May 2006. The highest 10% earned more than $35,840, the middle 50% earned from $17,620 to $27,430 and the lowest 10% earned about $15,030.
Conclusion
Such opportunities for security guard jobs along with the counterpart of gaming surveillance jobs are rather favorable. Employment growth has resulted in numerous job openings as the present demands increased levels of security in general. There is also a huge need to replace the ones who leave their existing jobs or retire. So that way there are a lot of options for many who are looking for jobs right now.
