Senior Physical Security Consultant

Stantec Consulting International Ltd.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 103,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Dental plan

Vision plan

Wellness program

RRSP matching

Employee stock purchase program

Life & AD&D insurance

Disability insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

Stantec is hiring a Senior Physical Security Consultant in Canada (Ottawa, Toronto or remote). You will lead threat and risk assessments, develop security strategies, and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams across sectors including government, infrastructure and health care.

You will mentor junior staff, support proposals, and ensure regulatory compliance while engaging with executives and clients to deliver secure, resilient facilities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in physical security consulting.
• Strong knowledge of physical security principles and standards.
• Ability to translate client requirements into security specifications.

Responsibilities

• Lead security design briefs, TRA/HTRA, master plans, CPTED studies, facility security assessments, and gap analyses.
• Develop physical security strategies and roadmaps for complex facilities and campuses.
• Lead multidisciplinary security consulting assignments from planning through implementation.
• Prepare and review security reports, basis-of-design narratives, and functional requirements.
• Mentor junior consultants and support business development in Physical Security Practice.

Skills

Threat & risk assessment

Security planning

Executive communication

Stakeholder workshops

Project leadership

Engineering coordination

Regulatory compliance

Security reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree related field

ASIS PSP/CPP CPTED or equivalent

Job description

Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.

Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.

Join us and design your place with Stantec.

Are you curious, client-focused, and motivated by complex security challenges? Join our dynamic team in Ottawa, Toronto, or remotely as a Senior Physical Security Consultant.

In this role, you will help clients protect people, assets, operations, and communities across the defense, justice, government, industrial, critical infrastructure, transportation, health care, commercial, and institutional sectors. You will lead client engagements, provide strategic guidance, conduct threat and risk assessments, develop security strategies and requirements, support project delivery, mentor team members, and contribute to business development initiatives.

You’ll do this as part of Stantec, a global firm of 34,000 employees working in more than 450 offices across six continents.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead security design briefs, threat and risk assessments (TRA/HTRA), security master plans, CPTED studies, facility security assessments, and security gap analyses.

• Knowledge of designing vehicle ramming mitigation measures.

• Develop physical security strategies, security zoning concepts, operational requirements, performance criteria, and implementation roadmaps for complex facilities and campuses.

• Lead multidisciplinary security consulting assignments from planning through implementation support, coordinating with architectural, engineering, ICT, operations, and client stakeholder teams.

• Prepare and review security reports, basis-of-design narratives, functional requirements, security standards, policy inputs, implementation plans, and advisory documentation.

• Translate client risk, operational, and business requirements into clear physical security requirements for executives, project teams, and technical disciplines.

• Lead client workshops, stakeholder interviews, site reviews, and executive briefings, and present practical recommendations to senior stakeholders.

• Support project delivery through advisory review of security-related RFIs, shop drawings, change orders, commissioning documentation, and implementation issues, coordinating with licensed engineers where engineering content, code compliance, system interfaces, or construction conformance are involved.

• Ensure that physical security deliverables requiring professional engineering responsibility are prepared by, or under the supervision of, an appropriately licensed engineer, in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements..

• Mentor junior consultants, support quality reviews, and provide technical oversight within the candidate’s area of physical security consulting competence.

• Support proposals, fee estimates, client development, thought leadership, and strategic growth initiatives for the Physical Security Practice.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in physical security consulting, security planning, threat and risk assessment, security operations, or security program advisory.

• Demonstrated experience leading complex consulting assignments, facilitating stakeholder workshops, and advising multidisciplinary project teams.

• Strong knowledge of physical security principles, including access control strategy, video surveillance intent, intrusion detection concepts, perimeter protection, hostile vehicle mitigation planning, protective design coordination, and security operations.

• Knowledge of ASIS, ULC, CSA, ASTM, Government of Canada security guidance, and other applicable physical security standards, guidelines, and established principles.

• Excellent report-writing, facilitation, presentation, executive communication, and client relationship skills.

• Ethics, honesty, diligence, professionalism, and discretion.

• Be eligible to obtain a federal government security clearance (required).

Preferred Qualifications

• ASIS PSP, CPP, CPTED, P.Eng. or equivalent professional designation is preferred.

• Experience with Government of Canada, DND, PSPC, RCMP, justice, transportation, critical infrastructure, or other high-security clients.

• Knowledge of HTRA, NDSOD, federal security requirements, security planning frameworks, and security governance documentation.

• Bilingualism in English and French is an asset.

Pay Range:

Locations in Lower Mainland -- BC, GTA & Ottawa Ontario-$103,300.00 - $153,300.00 Annuel

Pay Transparency:

In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary:

Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Primary Location: Canada | ON | Ottawa
Other Locations: Canada | ON | Toronto
Organization: 1586 Buildings-CA Quebec BSS-Ottawa ON
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time