Apr 7, 2013

Security Manager - North Sea HQ and Offshore Assets

Employer: International Energy Company
Location: EMEA - Aberdeen - United Kingdom
Qualification
Working for this globally recognised energy form, the duties for this position include –
• The identification, assessment, monitoring and review of security risks to sites.
• Providing security advice to offshore and onshore operations.

• Guiding and supporting site managers to meet requirements of Security Standards.
• Advising management on protective security measures required by HMG at those sites identified by Government as Critical National Infrastructure.
• Making sure that security is taken into account during planning and implementation of new projects or business expansion, as part of Major Projects Common Process.
• Providing security consultancy and support to site management.
• Supporting management in handling of security incidents.
• Conducting security audits and advising on action plans to mitigate threats and vulnerabilities and assist with audits where required, in order to meet the identified key performance Indicators.
• Liaise with police, CPNI and DfT (Transec).
• Liaise with, and provide security advice to partners and suppliers.
• Audit security measures in place at partners and suppliers e.g. Heliports, Airports and Marine Bases providing support to Offshore Installations.
• Undertake the role of Access & Control Manager for North Sea Headquarters

Key accountabilities
• Identify and assess security risks within the businesses and develop plans to mitigate key exposures to people, operations, assets, information, intellectual property, and reputation ensuring these are recorded and implemented as part of the annual Security Risk Assessment process.
• Develop site security plans in order to meet key security exposures.
• Conduct and coordinate day-to-day security operational activities.
• Guide and support management to meet requirements of the Security Standards
• Support management to conduct and manage the risk assessment process. Includes networking with disciplines from Digital Security, Business Continuity Planning and Crisis Management.
• Support management in handling of security incident/crisis responses.
• Develop, maintain, and implement security procedures and plans (includes civil crisis and terrorist threat/attack management plans).
• Develop and implement security awareness programs.
• Advise on or investigate acts of criminality or fraud against the Company within the guidelines of the Fraud Framework and Escalated Cases
• Supervise executive protection if appropriate.
• Networking with Regional Security Managers and Business Security Representatives.
• Maintain and reviews contingency plans for bomb threat evaluation, search and evacuation.
• Maintain and reviews contingency plans for demonstrations or protestor activity.
• Ensures that sites understand the alert states and HMG threat and response levels and provide guidance on implementation.
• Produce and implements security awareness training programmes for staff and contractors.
• Work with the Crisis Continuity Management (CCM) team to assist with the development and delivery of exercises.
• Maintain and demonstrate that the Security requirements for the region are fully incorporated into the CCM exercise schedule for the Region

Experience required
You will ideally be an experienced professional with prior experience in the police, intelligence, security services or other law enforcement agencies, or have a background as a professional security manager with commercial experience. In addition, you will have –
• Significant experience of leading operational security and risk assessment processes.
• Knowledge of and experience in the implementation of, physical, personal and technical surveillance commensurate with large secure sites and events.
• Investigative experience.
• Experience of the handling and actioning of intelligence and information relating to security matters.
• A sound knowledge of the security pertaining to the UK critical national infrastructure and CNI and ISPS sites.
• Ideally, experience of the UK Offshore Oil & Gas Industry.
• Be able to evidence previous personal success in developing and implementing KPI metrics and review methods.

Desirable
• Successfully attended training courses sponsored by Centre for Protection of National.
• Infrastructure (CPNI) at Home Office Centre for Applied Science and Technology (CAST) or equivalent.
• UK Government vetted to Counter-Terrorism Check (CTC) level or above.
• ISPS trained.
• Experience of managing a manned guarding contract.