Senior Design Consultant

QCIC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

QCIC is seeking a Senior Design Consultant in London, UK, to lead security design on commercial developments including financial institutions and cash centres. You will manage projects, control budgets, and mentor junior staff within a multidisciplinary design team.

The role requires strong communication skills, client-facing capability, and experience delivering detailed security strategies from concept to implementation. A permanent, full-time opportunity with a strategic impact.

Qualifications

• Formalised Security design qualification is desirable.
• Experience developing security strategy and detailed designs across core physical security systems in the commercial sector.
• Experience working on commercial developments, ideally including financial institutions and cash centre projects.
• Awareness of hostile vehicle mitigation design and how it integrates with wider physical security strategy.
• Experienced in design risk management methodology.
• Experience producing clear technical reports, design notes, and client facing documentation.
• Previous experience in a security consultancy.
• Ability to identify and meet project deadlines and deliverables to support other disciplines.
• Demonstrable commercial awareness, including ownership of project budgets, tracking budget vs actuals, and supporting fee control.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must.

Responsibilities

• Provide a professional security strategy design service to clients on projects.
• Lead security design input on commercial developments, with focus on financial institutions, cash centres, and other high-security occupier environments.
• Act as project manager for assigned projects, ensuring scope, programme, quality and budget are controlled throughput delivery.
• Take ownership of project commercial performance, including budget management, forecasting, actuals tracking, and identifying variances early.
• Lead and manage junior staff and project teams directly, including delegation, review, mentoring, and performance support where required.
• Work independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary design teams, coordinating with architects, MEP, fire, and specialist consultants.
• Communicate directly with clients, lead meetings, present design proposals and represent the business in technical and commercial discussions.
• Prepare technical and financial proposals for new work where necessary.
• Develop concept and preliminary security strategies through to detailed design.
• Set up and manage job/project administrative systems, including planning and monitoring job resourcing/expenditure.
• Ensure senior management are informed of important decisions and objectives of client and company.
• Represent the Company at client meetings with professionals and suppliers.
• Ensure practices align with legislation, standards, and codes of practice.
• Check scope of professional services with client for continued design team presence.
• Convene and chair site progress meetings and record minutes and decisions.
• Carry out site inspections and track contractor performance.
• Produce accurate estimates of costs arising from contract administrator’s instructions.
• Check expenditure against job cost allocation and monitor fee income.

Skills

Security design

Project management

Client communication

Budget management

Team leadership

Interdisciplinary coordination

Proposal development

Education

Security design qualification

Job description

Careers

Senior Design Consultant

Location:London, UK

Salary:Competitive

Contract:Permanent

Hours:Full-time

What You Will Do

• Provide a professional security strategy design service to clients on projects
• Lead security design input on commercial developments, with particular focus on financial institutions, cash centres, and other high-security occupier environments
• Act as project manager for assigned projects, ensuring scope, programme, quality and budget are controlled throughput delivery
• Take ownership of project commercial performance, including budget management, forecasting, actuals tracking, and identifying variances early.
• Lead and manage junior staff and project teams directly, including delegation, review, mentoring, and performance support where required.
• Work independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary design teams, coordinating with architects, MEP, fire, and specialist consultants.
• Communicate directly with clients, lead meetings, present design proposals and represent the business in technical and commercial discussions.
• Prepare technical and financial proposals for new work where necessary.

Develop concept and preliminary security strategies through to detailed design

• Set up and manage job/project administrative systems, including planning and monitoring job resourcing/expenditure (adjusting these as necessary)
• Ensure the senior management team are kept informed of important and relevant service/design decisions and the objectives of the client and the company are achieved.
• Represent the Company at meetings with the client, other professionals and suppliers.
• Continually ensuring that practices, policies, strategy and services represent the client’s and the Company’s best interests and that Company policy is in keeping with current legislation, Standards and Codes of Practice etc.
• Check the scope of professional services agreed with the client for continued presence of the design team members as members of the project team.
• Convene and chair site progress meetings or attend progress meetings chaired by the contractor. Keep accurate minutes of meetings, and record discussions, progress statements and decisions.
• Carry out site inspections and progress checks, recording observations and tracking contractor performance.
• Produce accurate estimates of costs arising from contract administrator’s instructions, including variations.
• Check expenditure against the job cost allocation for all design stages and monitor fee income against budget

Business Development

• Support business development through contributions to bids, capability statements, project case studies, and targeted marketing material.
• Maintain an up-to-date CV and project experience profile for use in submissions and client engagement.
• Contribute thought leadership content and sector-facing articles where relevant.
• Support networking and client relationship development where requested by senior management.

Commercial

• Prepare fee proposals, terms and conditions for approval
• Define delivery methodology for new projects, including programme, resource assumptions, and commercial risks.
• Manage project finances on a monthly basis

What We Are Looking For

• Formalised Security design qualification is desriable
• Experience developing security srategy and detailed designs across core physical security systems in the commercial sector
• Experience working on commercial developments, ideally including financial institutions and cash centre projects.
• Awareness of hostile vehicle mitigation design and how it integrates with wider physical security strategy.
• Experienced in design risk management methodology
• Experience producing clear technical reports, design notes, and client facing documentation.
• Previous experience in a security consultancy
• Ability to identify and meet project deadlines and deliverables to support other disciplines
• Demonstrable commercial awareness, including ownership of project budgets, tracking budget vs actuals, and supporting fee control.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must