Senior Security Consultant
Role Overview
Lead the planning, design, and implementation of comprehensive physical, electronic, and operational security solutions for large-scale built-environment projects in the Middle East.
Provide technical leadership from pre-concept through tender documentation, construction support, and commissioning.
Embed security-by-design principles into multidisciplinary design and ensure security measures meet regulatory and international best-practice requirements.
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Company Overview
The employer describes itself as a specialist consultancy, engineering, and advisory firm operating across the Middle East, Europe, and Asia.
Its service areas include building engineering, planning and infrastructure, strategy and advisory, and commissioning, handover, and asset management.
Job Purpose
Lead the planning, design, and implementation of comprehensive physical, electronic, and operational security solutions for large-scale built-environment projects in the Middle East.
Provide technical leadership from pre-concept through tender documentation, construction support, and commissioning.
Embed security-by-design principles into multidisciplinary design and ensure security measures meet regulatory and international best-practice requirements.
Qualification and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in security engineering, security risk management, or a related field.
- 5–10 years of experience in security design engineering or security risk management.
- Experience delivering large-scale built-environment projects in the Middle East region.
- Familiarity with regional security regulations and authority approval processes such as SIRA, HCIS, and MOI.
- Strong knowledge of security risk management methodologies, security-by-design principles, and multidisciplinary design integration.
- Excellent communication, client engagement, and technical report writing skills.
Security Strategy and Masterplanning
- Develop holistic security strategies for mixed-use communities, transport hubs, critical infrastructure, and public realm projects.
- Conduct security risk assessments aligned with regional and international standards.
- Advise clients and design teams on security-by-design principles from concept through operation.
Technical Security Design
- Prepare concept, schematic, and detailed designs for video surveillance, access control, intrusion detection, perimeter protection, security lighting, and integrated command and control.
- Develop technical specifications, drawings, and documentation with architecture, MEP, ICT, and landscape teams.
- Ensure designs align with applicable codes, standards, and local authority requirements.
Physical Security Design
- Prepare physical security designs for perimeter protection, walls, doors, gates, turnstiles, and vehicle security barriers.
- Coordinate physical security specifications, drawings, and documentation with architectural and engineering disciplines.
- Integrate structural and architectural security measures without compromising design intent or operational efficiency.
Client Engagement and Compliance
- Advise clients and stakeholders on physical and technical security matters.
- Support local authority approvals for security designs.
- Deliver presentations, reports, and workshops explaining security design rationale and compliance.
Project Delivery
- Manage multiple projects and ensure timely, coordinated, high-quality deliverables.
- Review contractor submittals, conduct site inspections, and oversee construction and commissioning of security systems and structural security elements.
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