Security Manager

Security Manager
Location Barrow in Furness, LA14 4QS
Hours Monday Friday, 40 hours per week, variable shift

Company Benefits:

25 days holiday plus BH
Life assurance
Employee discounts via Perkbox
Cycle to work
Access to a virtual GP and access to a health & wellbeing app
Training & Development

Are you dedicated to delivering great service and want to join a growing company that looks after its people? Have you got skills and experience in a security management role with a customer focused mind-set, if so then we have got the role for you.

In this role the Security Manager will be accountable for the management and delivery of security. This will include compliance, statutory, contractual and company regulations and processes. This is an active and visible role requiring excellent customer relationships, commercial, supplier management and people management skills with the ability to influence people across a wide spectrum.

This critical, customer-facing role encompasses the delivery of hands on daily operational management of a high profile key account. You will lead, manage and motivate a team of up to 6 security officers who are based on site, including supervisory staff. You will be an excellent customer service ambassador for the site and ensure the delivery of exceptional standards of safety and security.

In this key role as Security Manager working within the Facilities Management industry, you will produce, implement and manage operational procedures and processes in line with contract and regulatory standards/compliance with enforcement agencies and auditory bodies including health and safety. You will continually drive to enhance operational standards, through sustainability, innovation and best practice by achieving performance targets and other business plan objectives within budget. You will also oversee the incident and accident management, reporting, budgeting and ensuring staff rotas to maximise staff resources.

Our Ideal candidate must have:

Proven knowledge and a track record of successfully delivering strategy
Must have all round experience of managing facilities teams
Expert knowledge and experience of managing in a challenging environment
Able to evidence best practise, implement change, drive continuous improvement
Work well under pressure, handle pressure situations
Experience being the lead on a wide range of events, internal and external
Happy and confident in engagement at Senior levels of the client team
Frontline SIA badge for manned guarding
Demonstrate at least 3 years experience of working in a similar role
Strong leadership skills with a motivational approach
Engage and communicate with a wide range of Senior Client/External staff
Knowledge of delivering security to high profile sites
Highly customer focussed
Able to manage change quickly and efficiently whilst maintaining effective service provision
Flexible approach
Ability to make decisions and bring clarity to difficult situations
Able to deliver results under pressure
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Be able to produce details reports, investigations and action plans
Knowledge of employee relations and employment law
Commitment and direction of people development
Experience of financial and budget management

Well make sure that you have everything you need to do a great job. You will ideally already have current IOSH and first aid qualifications, and ideally a security management qualification or similar. You will also have management experience gained in a similar role, within a fast paced, client led environment, ideally gained within the FM / Corporate / industrial / Manufacturing sector.

You will work 40 hours per week (which may be variable), with access to Apleona employee benefits that will be available to you as soon as you start.

Apleona is an equal opportunities employer who deliver facilities management services to clients all over the UK and with vacancies in your area this is a great time to join our teams.

If this sounds like a job for you then click on the apply button and well start the process and if youre a good match well be in touch to discuss the next steps.

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