Senior Consultant (Design)

We are working with a leading global security engineering consultancy who are expanding their Design team and looking for one or more Senior Consultants. You can be based anywhere in the UK for this role as long as you are prepared to travel as required (expenses covered).

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic/technical security design service to the group, acting as Project Manager responsible for the technical and commercial delivery of projects.
• Provide a professional security strategy design service to clients on projects as directed by Senior Management.
• Act as Project Manager to ensure service and project work are carried out within agreed deadlines and within budget.
• Work competently on an independent basis.
• Work collaboratively in a multidiscipline design team.
• Communicate directly with clients and be able to lead meetings and present when required.
• Prepare technical and financial proposals for new work.
• Manage the workload of junior engineers and technicians (including verification of quality).
• Prepare and take responsibility for concept and preliminary strategy solutions for detail 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 ensure 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, British Standards and Codes of Practice etc.

What we’re looking for:

• Business development minded competent individual who can generate potential revenue streams alongside project management.
• An individual who can produce related articles for industrial journals and social media.
• Commercially minded individuals who can scope new projects putting together delivery methodology as directed.
• Financially sound individuals who manage project finances monthly, preparing fee proposals terms and conditions for approval.
• Formalised security design qualification (desirable).
• Experience of implementation for security management procedures.
• Experienced in Counter Terrorist design (desirable).
• Experienced in Secure by Design practices (desirable).
• Experienced in design risk management methodology.
• Adequate experience in a security consultancy (desirable).
• Ability to identify and meet project deadlines and deliverables to support other disciplines.
• Experience with producing technical reports.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must.

Essential:

Experience

• Implementation of Security Management procedures.
• Production of technical reports.
• ELV system design.
• Witnessing.
• Security system base build.
• Coordination with architects and MEP Engineers.

Knowledge and Skills

• BEng or Meng.
• High level or written and verbal communication skills.
• Previous experience of dealing with high profile clients from the built environment.
• Electronic security system design.

Desirable:

• Counter Terrorism Design.
• Formalised Security design qualification.
• Secure by Design practices.
• RIBA Design stages.
• Adequate experience within a security consultancy or similar.

Package:

• Up to £75K basic DOE
• Private Healthcare
• Healthcare cashback scheme
• Pension
• Travel Insurance
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Group Life Insurance
• Annual pay reviews
• Season Ticket Loan