Operational Resilience & Security Manager

You will work closely with other departments to ensure our annual SEMD RAG assessment is submitted on time.

You will also work closely with other departments to ensure our annual SEMD RAG assessment is suitably detailed and completed to the required standard.

It will be required to identify any areas that are not meeting the standard, identify the appropriate action required and implement.

The emergency plan is reviewed annually as a minimum.

There will responsibility for ensuring the plan is updated, following any recommendations from incident reviews.

Ensuring we have a planned programme of test incident scenarios.

You will be expected to undertake internal post incident reviews for all level 3 and 4 events.

Producing reports for all level 3 and 4 incident reviews and provide recommendations where appropriate.

Tracking incident recommendations and where relevant implementation.

Ensuring we have the appropriate contracts in place to maintain our physical security infrastructure.

Ensuring our security contractors are providing the right level of service and it represents good value for South East Water.

Ensure capital projects are compliant with the latest security guidance and SEMD:

Advising security requirements for all Engineering schemes.

Making sure an appropriate audit process is in place for all construction sites.

Ensure our Security Risk Assessments are reflective of current risk level and maintained:

You will be responsible for undertaking planned site security audits and undertaking reactive site security audits (following suspicious activity or confirmed intrusions).

There will be a need for completing 3 day and 20 day reports for the DWI following confirmed site intrusions.

Skills / Qualifications / Experience

NVQ Level 3 / 4 (or equivalent) within a security or emergency planning discipline, preferably water industry specific.

Ability to develop, motivate and lead a multi-disciplinary team.

Highly organised, methodical, and adept at managing time effectively.

Demonstrates thoroughness and a strong attention to detail.

Problem-solving skills, capable of rapid and sound decision-making in high-pressure scenarios, often with incomplete or ambiguous information, utilising strong logical reasoning.

Ability to influence stakeholders, using sound logic and reasoning.

Proven track record in managing teams, projects, or large-scale programmes.

Demonstrable experience creating new teams, projects or workstreams.

Experience navigating regulated industries and interfacing with bodies such as the DWI.

Significant experience working within a security or emergency planning discipline.

Extensive knowledge of SEMD, Emergency Planning Guidance for the Water Industry, Protective Security Guidance for the Water Industry and the Civils Contingencies Act 2004.

Employees are required to be flexible and to be prepared to perform duties and other tasks within their capabilities. The nature of our business is such that the contents of any job profile are subject to change from time to time.

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