Senior Physical Security Lead — Facilities & Research

UL Solutions; Evanston (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

UL Solutions (UL Research Institutes and UL Standards & Engagement) in Evanston, IL, seeks a Physical Security Manager to develop and maintain our physical security program across facilities. You will oversee access control, CCTV, intrusion detection, visitor management, and risk assessments to protect people and assets.

You'll collaborate with facilities, design teams, and internal stakeholders through planning, construction, and occupancy of new and renovated spaces, driving security standards

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve physical security standards, policies, procedures, and programs across the organization.
• Manage physical security systems and technologies, including access control, badge and credential administration, CCTV, intrusion detection, alarms, visitor management, and key control.
• Conduct physical security risk assessments for new and existing facilities, identify threats and vulnerabilities, and develop appropriate risk mitigation recommendations.
• Establish physical security requirements for office, laboratory, and testing environments.
• Lead physical security incident response and investigations involving unauthorized access, theft, workplace violence concerns, vandalism, and other security-related events, coordinating with internal and external partners as appropriate.
• Manage physical security infrastructure projects, including access control upgrades, CCTV deployments, visitor management implementations, security command center enhancements, and new facility security installations.
• Partner with project management, design teams, and internal stakeholders to establish and implement physical security requirements throughout the planning, design, construction, commissioning, and occupancy of new and renovated facilities.
• Manage security vendors, integrators, monitoring providers, contractors, and equipment manufacturers, including scopes of work, service-level performance, budgets, maintenance, and system upgrades.
• Support emergency preparedness, crisis management, business continuity, evacuation planning, and security response activities during facility emergencies and other significant events.
• Develop and monitor security metrics, dashboards, access audits, incident trends, system performance, and compliance activities; prepare leadership reporting and support internal and external audits and regulatory inspections.

Skills

Access control

CCTV

Risk assessment

Incident response

Security policy

Job description

UL Solutions (UL Research Institutes and UL Standards & Engagement) in Evanston, IL, seeks a Physical Security Manager to develop and maintain our physical security program across facilities. You will oversee access control, CCTV, intrusion detection, visitor management, and risk assessments to protect people and assets.

You'll collaborate with facilities, design teams, and internal stakeholders through planning, construction, and occupancy of new and renovated spaces, driving security standards