The Senior Regional Security Strategist (Americas South) is responsible for day-to-day company security operations at our Houston, TX regional headquarters office, and Americas South regional office facilities, project offices, and job sites. This position will provide and/or coordinate 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 of regional headquarter offices and Americas South office and project sites.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 at assigned regional offices and sites.Conduct security and crisis management 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 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.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.Partner with Corporate Services departments, to include Human Resources, Accounting and Legal to support employee relations issues and investigations as applicable.Establish and foster relationships with regional leadership and corporate support teams. Lead and support the development of the organization’s job/construction site security program.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 assignedComply with all policies and standards