Personnel Security Coordinator

Position Overview

• Ongoing I Full Time | $86k - $97k +15.4% super | Salary sacrificing available 
• Onsite Childcare for Employees | Cafe on site  | generous leave provisions
• Sutherland Shire location I Health & Wellbeing Programs I bus from Sutherland Station
• A unique opportunity to contribute towards security within a leading scientific and technological organisation.

About the Opportunity

The Personnel Security Coordinator plays a key role in maintaining secure and efficient site access, supporting essential administrative functions and front desk operations, and upholding ANSTO's robust security protocols. This position reflects the organisation's commitment to operational excellence and regulatory compliance, while serving as a central point of contact for both internal and external stakeholders.

About You

"We're looking for a highly organised and detail-orientated professional with strong judgement and integrity, who is self-driven and confident managing competing priorities, and who can build positive relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders in a fast-paced security environment" - Melissa Heggie - Manager, Personnel Security 

Your Duties and Responsibilities

• Security Suitability Assessment Processing: Check applications for completeness, ensuring all required information has been provided. Identify and resolve missing, incomplete, ineligible, or unclear information, and follow up promptly with applicants as required. Perform external checks with a high degree of precision, maintaining 100% accuracy to uphold compliance obligations, security integrity, and agreed KPI timeframes. Ensure all records are maintained in strict accordance with privacy and confidentiality requirements.
• Front Desk and Stakeholder Management: Manage front desk operations to deliver professional, efficient and welcoming reception services. Act as the central point of contact for external visitors and incoming enquiries, ensuring a high-quality stakeholder experience and timely resolution of issues whilst maintaining the integrity of ANSTO’s safety and security standards.
• Building Access Management: Administer and facilitate access across more than 70 buildings within the Lucas Heights campus, each with complex internal access requirements. Manage and maintain the Electronic Access Control System (EACS), Visitor Management System (VMS), and Application Service Management (ASM) to ensure secure and efficient access control.
• Pass issuance: Independently manage the issuance, tracking and retrieval of access passes for personnel and visitors to the secure Lucas Heights facility. Verify identities and applicable security suitability levels, ensuring compliance with protocols, including escort and supervision requirements. Maintain accurate records and liaise with security teams to prevent unauthorised access. 
• SAP Administration: Administer SAP for all security suitability assessment holders, ensuring information is accurate and up to date, including assessment levels and relevant validity dates. Maintain associated HR data for non-employees as required, ensuring integrity across all records for all individuals accessing ANSTO information, assets and infrastructure. 

These responsibilities ensure the effective and efficient operation of ANSTO's security functions, contributing to the overall safety and security of the organisation.

Please view the full Position Description or click Apply to view.

Note:  A requirement of this role will be to obtain a Negative Vetting 1 national security clearance after the probationary period.

About Us

ANSTO leverages great science to deliver big outcomes.  We partner with scientists and engineers and apply new technologies to provide real-world benefits.  Our work improves human health, saves lives, builds our industries and protects the environment.  ANSTO is the home of Australia's most significant landmark and national infrastructure for research.  Thousands of scientists from industry and academia benefit from gaining access to state-of-the-art instruments every year.
 

Working with us you will enjoy

ANSTO offers training and development, performance-based salary increases and an extensive range of leave provisions to help employees balance work and personal commitments.

• 18 days personal/carers leave for each year of service
• 3 days paid leave between Christmas and New Year
• Generous parental leave provisions:
  • 18 weeks Parental leave for primary caregiver
  • 14 weeks Parental leave for secondary caregiver (with incremental increase to a maximum of 18 weeks effective 01/03/2027)
• Annual flu vaccinations
• Cultural, Naidoc and First Nations ceremonial leave

If you want to join a world class organisation that's making a difference in the lives of Australians, apply now!

How to Apply

For further technical information relating to this position please refer to the Position Description or contact Melissa Heggie on (02) 9717 3002.  For all other queries please contact Talent Acquisition on +61 (02) 9717 9361.

To be eligible for appointment, applicants will require a security and pre-employment medical assessment.

Application closing date:  11:59pm 14 June 2026

All applicants must be Australian citizens.

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In order to solve great challenges, we need great minds and great teams. At ANSTO, we understand that diverse teams produce better outcomes and we value the merit that a diverse perspective can bring to our team. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, primary carers, those with a disability, and women in STEM. ANSTO is a charter member of the Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) initiative and is proudly taking action to create a gender-inclusive workforce.