Physical Security

IN553 Guidehouse India Pvt Ltd; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidehouse India Pvt Ltd is seeking a security professionals to support physical security programs and business continuity across offices in India. The role focuses on access control, incident reporting, and collaboration with internal teams and external agencies.

The candidate will assist with BIAs, continuity plans, and crisis management alignment, ensuring compliance with policies and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Strong documentation, communication, and coordination skills
• Understanding of corporate security policies, regulatory requirements, and BCM concepts
• Delivers assigned operational objectives with direct contribution to team outcomes

Responsibilities

• Supports physical security programs and components of business continuity to address operational security needs
• Contributes to protecting employees, visitors, facilities, and information
• Performs day-to-day security activities including access control, incident reporting, and loss prevention
• Ensures compliance with company policies, legal requirements, and regulations
• Supports execution of physical security operations across sites or functions
• Contributes to achieving targets related to safety, access control, incident management, and loss prevention
• Escalates security incidents and non-compliance appropriately
• Communicates with internal stakeholders and external parties such as security vendors and local authorities
• Maintains security records, logs, and documentation
• Assists with BIAs, continuity plans, and crisis management alignment

Skills

Documentation

Communication

Coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Security/BCM or related

Job description

Job Family: Corporate Services General (India) Travel Required: None Clearance Required: None

What You Will Do:

Supports physical security programs (PSP) and key components of our business continuity programs (BCP) to holistically address the company's operational security and continuity of business operation's needs.

Contributes to providing for the physical protection of employees, visitors, facilities, and information..

Contributes to conducting business impact analysis (BIA) to ensure consistency of compliance across the physical security enterprise.

Assists with day-to-day security activities including access control, incident reporting, loss prevention, and coordination with internal teams and external agencies.

Ensures compliance with company policies, legal requirements, and applicable regulations.

Supports execution of physical security operations across assigned sites or functions.

Contributes to achieving operational targets related to safety, access control, incident management, and loss prevention.

Escalates security incidents, risks, and non-compliance issues appropriately.

Communicates with internal stakeholders and external parties such as security vendors, building management, and local authorities.

Maintains accurate reports, logs, and security documentation.

Support day-to-day PSP operations across office locations and facilities.

Ensuring company alignment Crisis Management and BCP protocols.

Assist with access control management - including badge issuance, visitor management, access reviews, and ensuring continuity of access during disruptions or emergencies.

Monitor, document, and report security incidents, safety events, and continuity-related impacts in support of PSP and BCM reporting standards.

Compile data for incident, accident, loss control, and business continuity impact reports to support trend analysis and risk mitigation.

Coordinate with police, emergency services, crisis response teams, and external agencies as required to support both physical security and crisis management needs.

Support security audits.

Maintain security records, manuals, continuity plans, and documentation to ensure audit readiness and program accuracy.

Assist with conducting BIAs across business units to identify critical processes, recovery requirements (RTO/RPO), and operational dependencies.

Assist in maintaining and updating Business Continuity Plans (BCPs), documentation, templates, and continuity dashboards.

Support continuity risk assessments and identify operational vulnerabilities or single points of failure.

Assist with continuity exercises, plan validations, and lessons-learned tracking.

Prepare summaries and reporting for leadership, ensuring audit-ready documentation.

Supports moderately complex projects, processes, or operations within the physical security function.

Assist in maintaining and updating Business Continuity Plans (BCPs), documentation, templates, and continuity dashboards.

Support continuity risk assessments and identify operational vulnerabilities or single points of failure.

Assist with continuity exercises, plan validations, and lessons-learned tracking.

Prepare summaries and reporting for leadership, ensuring audit-ready documentation.

Supports execution of physical security operations across assigned sites or functions.

Contributes to achieving operational targets related to safety, access control, incident management, and loss prevention.

Escalates security incidents, risks, and non-compliance issues appropriately.

Communicates with internal stakeholders and external parties such as security vendors, building management, and local authorities.

Maintains accurate reports, logs, and security documentation.

Apply standard security procedures and practices to resolve routine and moderately complex issues.

Identifies operational risks or gaps and recommends improvements within established guidelines.

Escalates non-standard or higher-risk issues.

Uses judgment based on experience to support effective incident response.

Supports moderately complex projects, processes, or operations within the physical security function.

Delivers assigned operational objectives with direct contribution to team outcomes.

Works under general supervision, following defined policies, standards, and procedures.

Assist with conducting BIAs across business units to identify critical processes, recovery requirements (RTO/RPO), and operational dependencies.

What You Will Need:

University degree or equivalent relevant qualification in fields such as Security Management, Business Continuity, Emergency Management, Risk Management, or a related discipline.

Understanding of corporate security policies, regulatory requirements, and foundational BCM/BIA concepts, including recovery objectives, risk identification, and continuity planning expectations.

Strong documentation, communication, and coordination skills, including the ability to clearly capture incident details, continuity impacts, BIA findings, and crisis response actions for both operational teams and leadership.

Delivers assigned operational objectives with direct contribution to team outcomes.

Works under general supervision, following defined policies, standards, and procedures.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

Willingness to take up challenging role, enthusiastic, proactive Collaborative approach and work well with team members Must be a keen learner

Apply standard security procedures and practices to resolve routine and moderately complex issues.

Identifies operational risks or gaps and recommends improvements within established guidelines.

Escalates non-standard or higher-risk issues.

Uses judgment based on experience to support effective incident response.

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

About Guidehouse:

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer-Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.

All communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or [e-mail].

Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse.