Senior Regional Security Strategist - Corporate Security (Kansas City, MO)

Description The Senior Regional Security Strategist (Americas West) is responsible for day-to-day company security operations at Burns & McDonnell's Americas West regional office facilities, project offices, and job sites. This position will provide and coordinate physical security support for large meetings, company-sponsored events and symposiums and will manage security awareness activities, workplace violence mitigation and travel security programs. The Senior Regional Security Strategist will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and local stakeholders to promote corporate security and business continuity initiatives, mitigate risk, respond to incidents, and maintain a secure environment for our employees, assets, and operations.


• Partner with regional office leadership and conduct as-needed security threat, risk and vulnerability assessments at regional headquarter offices and Americas West office and project sites.


• Serve as program lead and key resource with the organization's enterprise crisis/mass communication, travel security and critical event management (CEM) platform.


• Identify physical security risks and work with local office management and corporate security teams to formulate risk mitigation and security enhancement plans.


• Develop, implement, and support corporate security initiatives and implement department policies, procedures, and guidance documents for assigned regional offices and sites.


• Develop, implement, and maintain the organization's project/construction site security, international travel security, event security, executive protection, insider threat, and intelligence analysis programs.


• Create comprehensive intelligence and travel security briefs for international office business partners and international travelers.


• Conduct security and crisis management awareness training for regional office management and administrative teams.


• Support enterprise business continuity team with regional office crisis management and disaster recovery planning and incident response.


• Establish and maintain relationships with local property management, law enforcement, first responders and security networking organizations within assigned region.


• Research, Implement and maintain compliance for existing and new local, state, federal, and international security regulations.


• Support emergency response through first responder actions when physically present at an office.


• Oversee regional office physical security investigations. Resolve, document, and track all regional security related incidents. Support Human Resources with employee relations issues and investigations as applicable.


• Partner with the Integrated Electronic Security Team to support the maintenance and ongoing system testing of all integrated security systems at assigned regional office facilities and sites. Work with corporate facilities teams and consult on the design and installation of company facility enhancement projects.


• Manage third-party vendor relationships and liaison with corporate vendor managers within assigned region to support the compliance of company standards.


• Serve as a trusted advisor and business partner with Global Practice Divisions and Corporate Services departments, to include Facilities, Human Resources, Accounting, Risk Management, Corporate Communications, Events, Marketing, Public Relations, and Legal.


• Establish and foster relationships with regional leadership and corporate support teams.


• Lead and support department objectives and key results (OKRs)


• Provide leadership, guidance, and instruction to junior staff and contract embedded resources.


• Responsible for QA/QC process adherence.


• Responsible for compliance with company and site safety policies.


• Performs other duties as assigned


• Comply with all policies and standards


Qualifications Qualifications:


• Bachelor Degree in Criminal Justice, Security Management or related field and 8 years experience in a corporate security environment, physical security, military service, or related field


• Working knowledge and direct experience conducting threat risk and vulnerability assessments for corporate facilities, commercial buildings, and project and construction sites


• Working knowledge and direct experience conducting physical security analysis pertaining to current events, geopolitics, and international affairs and applying security mitigations to protect persons and property.


• Strong organizational and prioritization skills to interact with multiple customers with differing needs based on business impacts


• Must have advanced knowledge in the use of basic computer software (i.e., Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint)


• Strong project management skills and demonstrated experience with managing large complex projects and developing thorough business cases preferred.


• Strong leadership skills including effective oral and written communication, issue resolution, negotiation, motivating others, collaborative, team player, ability to deal with obstacles and partner with senior management to identify and solve problems


• Demonstrated ability to effectively work autonomously and generate relationships preferred.


• Must have demonstrated technology proficiency and ability to learn company specific integrated security systems at an operator level (Access Control, CCTV, Intrusion Detection)


• Demonstrated proficiency and direct experience working with mass notification, travel security risk management, and critical event management (CEM) platforms (Everbridge) preferred.


• Hold one or more of the following ASIS Board Certification as a Physical Security Professional (PSP), Professional Certified Investigator (PCI) or Certified Protection Professional (CPP) - Or ability to obtain within first twelve months of employment.


This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled.


EEO/Disabled/Veterans


Job Administrative/Office Support


Primary Location US-MO-Kansas City


Schedule: Full-time


Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time


Req ID: 261628


Job Hire Type Experienced #LI-KD #COR N/A