Senior Physical Security Engineer

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Senior Physical Security Engineer – HS2</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Location: London OR Birmingham (Hybrid Working – c.3 Days Office / 2 Days Home)</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Salary: Up to £83,672 (London) Up to £77,500 (Brum )</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Progression Lead Security Engineer £90,000 – 100,000 + pkg</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Benefits: 12% Pension, Healthcare, 25 Hols + Flexible Benefits</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Programme: HS2 Phase One – Programme length (Apply online only)</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Shape the Physical Security Systems of HS2</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Are you an experienced Physical Security professional with strong technical knowledge and proven experience delivering security projects?</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Do you understand how systems such as access control, CCTV and intruder detection are designed, integrated and delivered within complex buildings or infrastructure?</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">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.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">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.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">You will work closely with project teams, contractors, designers, security specialists and operational stakeholders to ensure the systems ultimately provide the required security capability.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">The Opportunity</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">The HS2 security portfolio includes a wide range of physical and electronic security systems, including:</p>

<ul class="list-unstyled job-desc-list mb-3">

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Access Control Systems</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>CCTV and Video Management Systems</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Intruder Detection Systems</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Physical Security Information Management</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Integrated security and communications infrastructure</span></li>

</ul>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">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.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">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.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">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.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">What You Will Do</p>

<ul class="list-unstyled job-desc-list mb-3">

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Provide technical assurance and engineering support for physical and electronic security systems.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Review contractor designs, technical submissions and delivery proposals.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Manage security system interfaces with buildings, communications networks and wider railway infrastructure.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Identify and manage project risks, maintaining risk registers and developing appropriate mitigation strategies.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Manage technical interfaces and ensure agreed Interface Control Documents are maintained and understood.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Support technical change management, assessing the impact of proposed changes on cost, programme, technical performance and security</span></li>

</ul>

<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">requirements.</h5>

<ul class="list-unstyled job-desc-list mb-3">

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Provide technical guidance during design, construction, testing and commissioning.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Challenge proposals where they do not meet the required technical or operational outcome.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Work with suppliers, contractors and HS2 Subject Matter Experts to resolve technical and integration issues.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Support audits, assurance reviews and construction stage inspections.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Provide clear technical advice and reporting to project and engineering stakeholders.</span></li>

</ul>

<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">About You</h5>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">We are looking for a technically capable Physical Security professional who has real project delivery experience.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">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 facilities, large mixed use developments or other complex buildings and infrastructure.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">What matters is that you understand the technology well enough to review and challenge the technical solution, understand how systems integrate and have experience managing the project controls required to deliver successfully.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">You will be comfortable working with contractors, designers, suppliers and internal stakeholders and be confident taking ownership of technical issues through to resolution.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Essential Experience</p>

<ul class="list-unstyled job-desc-list mb-3">

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Experience delivering physical and electronic security systems on major projects.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Strong technical understanding of systems such as access control, CCTV, intruder detection and associated security infrastructure.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Experience reviewing designs, technical submissions and contractor deliverables.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Proven experience of project delivery within a complex multidisciplinary environment.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Experience managing project risks, including risk registers and mitigation actions.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Experience managing technical interfaces and coordinating information between different systems and disciplines.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Experience of technical change management and understanding the impact of change on cost, programme and delivery.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Ability to understand system integration and IP based security infrastructure.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Knowledge of relevant British Standards and security industry</span></li>

</ul>

<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">requirements.</h5>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Desirable Experience</p>

<ul class="list-unstyled job-desc-list mb-3">

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Critical National Infrastructure - Rail, aviation, defence, nuclear, utilities or other regulated infrastructure.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Major shopping centres, hospitals, stadia or other complex public and commercial developments.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Experience with VMS, PSIM or integrated security platforms.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Experience working within a Design and Build environment.</span></li>

<li class="d-flex align-items-start mb-2"><i class="mdi mdi-circle-medium text-success fs-15 me-2 mt-1"></i><span>Experience of testing, commissioning and handover of security systems.</span></li>

</ul>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Why Join HS2?</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">This is an opportunity to take your physical security experience into one of the UK's most significant infrastructure programmes and work at a scale that few security projects can match.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">You will gain exposure to multiple security technologies, complex system interfaces and major infrastructure delivery, while working alongside experienced engineering, security and project professionals.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">The role offers the opportunity to broaden your experience beyond a single building or project and develop your career within a long term client organisation.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">You will also be working directly for High Speed Two Ltd, providing genuine client side experience across the design, delivery, integration and commissioning of the future high speed railway.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">For an experienced physical security professional who combines strong technical knowledge with genuine project delivery experience,</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">this is an opportunity to build a long term career within one of the UK's largest infrastructure programmes</p>