Senior Design Consultant

• Provide a professional security strategy design service to clients on projects
• Lead security design input on commercial developments, with particular focus on financial institutions, cash centres, and other high-security occupier environments
• Act as project managerfor assigned projects, ensuring scope, programme,qualityand budgetare controlled throughput delivery
• Take ownership of project commercial performance, including budget management, forecasting, actuals tracking, andidentifyingvariances early.
• Lead and manage junior staff and project teams directly, including delegation, review, mentoring, and performance support whererequired.
• Work independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary design teams, coordinating with architects, MEP, fire, and specialist consultants.
• Communicate directly with clients,lead meetings,presentdesignproposalsand represent the business intechnical and commercial discussions.
• Prepare technical and financial proposals for new workwhere necessary.

Develop concept and preliminary security strategies through to detailed 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 theobjectivesof the client and the company are achieved.
• Represent the Company at meetings with the client, otherprofessionalsand suppliers.
• Continually ensuring that practices, policies,strategyand servicesrepresentthe client’s and the Company’s best interests and that Company policy is in keeping with current legislation, Standards and Codes of Practice etc.
• Check the scope of professional services agreed with the client for continued presence of the design team members as members of the project team.
• Convene and chair site progress meetings or attend progress meetings chaired by the contractor. Keepaccurateminutes of meetings, and record discussions, progressstatementsand decisions.
• Carry out site inspections and progress checks, recording observations and tracking contractor performance.
• Produceaccurateestimates of costs arising from contract administrator’s instructions, including variations.
• Check expenditure against the job cost allocation foralldesign stagesand monitor fee income againstbudget

Business Development

• Support business development through contributions to bids, capability statements, project case studies, and targeted marketing material.
• Maintain an up-to-date CV and project experience profile for use in submissions and client engagement.
• Contribute thought leadership content and sector-facing articles where relevant.
• Support networking and client relationship developmentwhererequestedby senior management.

Commercial

• Prepare fee proposals,termsand conditions for approval
• Define deliverymethodologyfor new projects, including programme, resource assumptions, and commercial risks.
• Manage project financeson a monthly basis

What we are looking for

• Formalised Security design qualificationisdesriable
• Experiencedevelopingsecuritysrategyanddetaileddesignsacross core physical security systems in the commercial sector
• Experience working on commercial developments, ideally including financial institutions and cash centre projects.
• Awareness of hostile vehicle mitigation design and how it integrates with wider physical security strategy.
• Experienced in design risk managementmethodology
• Experience producing clear technical reports, design notes, and clientfacing documentation.
• Previousexperience in a security consultancy
• Ability toidentifyand meet project deadlines and deliverables to support other disciplines
• Demonstrable commercial awareness, including ownership of project budgets, tracking budget vs actuals, and supporting fee control.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills area must

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