Senior Security Risk Consultant

BARC SOLUTIONS; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Security Risk Consultant to join their dynamic engineering team in Dubai. This role offers the chance to lead security risk consulting projects, develop comprehensive assessments, and engage with clients to establish security requirements. The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of security risk management principles and excellent communication skills, thriving in a fast-paced environment. Join a team that values innovation and collaboration, contributing to prestigious projects across the Middle East and Africa. This position is perfect for those looking to make a significant impact in the security consulting field.

Qualifications

• In-depth understanding of security risk management principles.
• Experience in project planning and managing teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead on security risk consulting projects and develop assessments.
• Communicate security strategies to clients and design teams.

Skills

Security Risk Management

Communication Skills

Project Planning

Understanding of CPTED and SBD Principles

Client Engagement

Education

Degree in Security or Built Environment Discipline

Membership of an Industry Association

Tools

Electronic Security Systems

Job description

BARC SOLUTIONS has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Security Risk Consultant to join our rapidly growing engineering team based in Dubai, UAE.

BARC SOLUTIONS engineering team includes chartered engineers and professionally registered security professionals with an incredible wealth of experience across a broad range of industry sectors. We work on many prestigious built environment projects and programmes throughout the Middle East and Africa, both as part of multi-disciplinary BARC Solutions teams, and independently.

The role:

• Assist and lead on security risk consulting projects.
• Support the security risk consultancy lead.
• Develop security threat, vulnerability, and risk assessments for projects.
• Develop security operational requirements that support the development of technical security designs.
• Develop security strategies and production of reports.
• Lead client and stakeholder engagement to establish project security requirements.
• Communicate security strategies to clients and design teams.
• Support the technical design teams in understanding and maintaining security strategy requirements throughout the technical design.
• Attend client meetings and delivering presentations when required.
• Set-up and manage project administrative processes, including monitoring job resourcing and expenditure (and adjusting as necessary).
• Proactively participate as part of the BARC Solutions engineering team in developing approaches to project delivery to support continued team growth.
• Implement review and governance procedures across all projects.
• Report commercial delivery to the team leader.
• Attend regular group meetings and participate in achieving group targets.
• Develop personal skills and support the development of others.
• Work towards developing the subject matter expertise to act as a future sector lead.
• Develop strong relationships with other disciplines and offices.

Requirements:

• Appropriate degree in security or built environment discipline (preferable).
• Membership of an industry association.
• An in-depth understanding of security risk management principles.
• An understanding of the RIBA plan of work and security design's place within this.
• A knowledge of designing out crime using CPTED and SBD principles.
• An understanding of current initiatives within the industry, such as SABRE.
• A good understanding of security policies and procedures.
• A detailed understanding of the development of operational requirements.
• Experience of project planning.
• Ability to work with, manage and develop junior members of the team.
• Basic technical understanding of electronic security systems.
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral).
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and demanding environment with tight deadlines.