Senior Physical Security Engineer

Location:

London OR Birmingham (Hybrid Working - c.3 Days Office / 2 Days Home)

Salary:
Up to £83,672 (London) Up to £77,500 (Brum )

Progression Lead Security Engineer £90, + pkg

Benefits: 12% Pension, Healthcare, 25 Hols + Flexible Benefits

Programme: HS2 Phase One
- Programme length

Are you an experienced Physical Security professional with strong technical knowledge and proven experience delivering security projects?

Do you understand how systems such as access control, CCTV and intruder detection are designed, integrated and delivered within complex buildings or infrastructure?

High Speed Two Ltd is looking for a Senior Security Systems Engineer to provide technical leadership and assurance for physical and electronic security systems across the HS2 programme.

This is a project delivery and engineering role, not an installation position. You will work across major infrastructure packages, helping ensure security systems are properly designed, integrated and delivered while managing the technical risks, interfaces and changes that come with a complex programme.

You will work closely with project teams, contractors, designers, security specialists and operational stakeholders to ensure the systems ultimately provide the required security capability.

The HS2 security portfolio includes a wide range of physical and electronic security systems, including:

• Access Control Systems
• CCTV and Video Management Systems
• Intruder Detection Systems
• Physical Security Information Management
• Integrated security and communications infrastructure

You will work across multiple projects and delivery organisations, reviewing contractor designs and technical submissions, resolving technical issues and ensuring security systems integrate effectively with wider infrastructure and communications networks.

A major part of the role is project controls. You will need to understand how technical risks are identified and managed, how interfaces are controlled and how changes are assessed and implemented throughout the project lifecycle.

You will also help ensure that contractors and delivery teams maintain the required technical standards and provide appropriate evidence that systems have been designed and delivered correctly.

• Provide technical assurance and engineering support for physical and electronic security systems.
• Review contractor designs, technical submissions and delivery proposals.
• Manage security system interfaces with buildings, communications networks and wider railway infrastructure.
• Identify and manage project risks, maintaining risk registers and developing appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Manage technical interfaces and ensure agreed Interface Control Documents are maintained and understood.
• Support technical change management, assessing the impact of proposed changes on cost, programme, technical performance and security requirements.
• Provide technical guidance during design, construction, testing and commissioning.
• Challenge proposals where they do not meet the required technical or operational outcome.
• Work with suppliers, contractors and HS2 Subject Matter Experts to resolve technical and integration issues.
• Support audits, assurance reviews and construction stage inspections.
• Provide clear technical advice and reporting to project and engineering stakeholders.

We are looking for a technically capable Physical Security professional who has real project delivery experience.

You do not need to come from Critical National Infrastructure. Your experience could have been gained delivering physical security systems on major shopping centres, hospitals, stadia, commercial developments, transport…