Regional Security Manager

We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced Regional Security Manager to join our team. This role involves regular travel to construction sites across the Midlands and North of England, with ad-hoc visits to our Head Office in Dartford. While we are open to applicants from other regions, frequent travel to project sites is a key part of the role.

About the Role:

You will be responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing security strategies across sensitive and non‑sensitive construction projects. This includes ensuring the protection of people, assets, information, and operations in line with legal, regulatory, and client requirements

• Conduct site security risk assessments, manage security controls throughout construction phases, and respond to incidents and conduct investigations concerning  theft, vandalism, unauthorised access, and security breaches.
• Confidently carry out security risk assessments and demonstrate how these have been effectively applied in previous roles to inform decision‑making and strengthen project security.
• Maintain compliance with legislation, industry standards, and client security frameworks; support audits; lead incident investigations; maintain logs and lessons learned; and contribute to emergency and crisis response planning.
• Act as the primary point of contact for client security teams, overseeing access management, vetting compliance, contractor controls, and delivering security inductions, toolbox talks, and awareness training to promote a strong onsite security culture.
• Implement and monitor information security controls, ensuring secure handling of physical and digital information, enforcing classification and protective marking processes, and supporting IT with secure system and device use, including responding to data or cyber incidents.
• Serve as the regional security subject‑matter expert, building strong relationships with project teams, senior management, clients, police, regulators, local authorities, and specialist partners.
• Liaise with internal business units, contribute to tender submissions, and support client and design review meetings.
• Develop and deliver proportionate, project‑specific physical security strategies, including CCTV, access control, perimeter protection, lighting, and crime‑reduction measures.

Essential Requirements:

• Proven experience within the security industry, ideally in a construction/commercial
• Stakeholder management 
• Strong knowledge of physical, personnel, and information security principles, including risk assessment and threat modelling.
• Excellent communication, organisational, and analytical skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Strong IT capability, including experience with Microsoft Power BI.

Desirable:

• Level 4 Security Risk Management qualification or equivalent.
• Experience of working within Government sectors/frameworks such as the MOD, MoJ etc
• Knowledge of GovS 007, DEFCON, ONR SyAPs, ISO 27001, and ISO 19650‑5.