Lead Consultant – Physical Security Design & Consulting

Central Florida
 

• Do you have at least 7 years’s experience working in a consulting and/or design capacity in the physical security industry?

• Do you have a thorough understanding of low voltage engineering, engineering principles, and electronic theory?

• Are you located in Florida?

Join a growing company of talented design and engineering professionals with a passion for excellence!

Send your resume, compensation requirements, and a completed application to Careers@TRUSYS.com.

The Lead Consultant is responsible for:

Management & Leadership 

• Leads team members by providing direction, support, and training to ensure work is being performed correctly.
• Oversees and reviews the work of assigned team members.
• Responsible for organizing the project efforts with other stakeholders and acts as a single point of contact to administrate the work.
• Manages and continually develops, maintains and supports internal standards and practices. This includes contributing ideas, sharing lessons learned and updating standards regularly and in periodic review meetings.

General

• Ensures projects are delivered on time and within budget, while exceeding client’s quality standards.
• Interfaces and communicates with internal and external stakeholders including clients, architects, engineers, consultants and designers.
• Works with a team to complete assigned work.
• Logs time allocated to projects in time management system.
• Updates and maintains project statuses using project management system.
• Maintains all client and project data on company servers organized in project folders.
• Maintains certifications, training, and stays current on industry best practices.
• Assists with developing cost estimates for the development of sales proposals, scopes of work, change orders and conceptual planning.
• Supports others to ensure the best techniques and practices are being followed to prepare the deliverables.
• Responsible for customer satisfaction on projects.
• Implements quality assurance program to continuously improve customer satisfaction.
• Follows company processes and methodologies when preparing reports, designs and other documents.
• Responsible for the quality output of the reports and recommendations.

Consulting

• Perform site assessments for threat analysis, electronic security applications, emergency planning and CPTED.
• Prepare reports and diagrams to communicate the findings of site visits and assessments.
• Recommend appropriate countermeasures for a client’s physical security operation. This may include operational, physical, and electronic countermeasures at their facility or international sites.
• Manage all communication to clients and stakeholders to ensure projects and services are carried out professionally.
• Travel to client site locations and consults, attend meetings, and gathers data about sites for the development of security remediation plans and designs.
• Assist in the development of standards and protocols for security operations.

Design

• Develops conceptual designs including physical and electronic countermeasures.
• Supports consultants, engineers and project managers with identifying and communicating technical requirements in the design documents. This may include various plan views, sections, representations, renderings, modeling, and diagrams.
• Prepares lists and matrices of technical and operational requirements gathered from site visits and incorporates into design documents
• Works with various design and construction documents to make informed and accurate engineering decisions.
• Respond to project related activities, such as changes or variations in the design, answering requests for information, and generally supporting the design and construction process from start to finish.
• Works with complex documentation, drawings and specifications to complete projects.

Required Education & Experience

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience working in a consulting and/or design capacity in the physical security industry.
• Associates degree in a related technical capacity or a bachelor’s degree in sciences is preferred. Engineering degree is a plus.
• Industry certifications such as PSP, CPP, RCDD and ESS, are preferred but not required.

Required Knowledge & Skills

• Proficient with Microsoft products including: Word, Excel, OneNote, Power Point, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Planner and Skype.
• Able to support and work well with teams of people, as well as independently.
• Thorough understanding and working knowledge of low voltage engineering and engineering principles, as well as electronic theory, principles and industry practices.
• Maintains professional level of design and engineering skills.
• Studies industry literature and attends seminars to keep current in products, processes and materials.
• Able to implement QA/QC programs to continuously improve customer satisfaction.
• Working knowledge of AutoCAD, Revit and Bluebeam are preferred, but not required.
• Able to work from home with limited supervision.
• Able to work varied hours to accommodate clients and colleagues in different time zones, including nights and weekends.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills and able to present and demonstrate work effectively.
• Able to consistently present a professional image when interacting with customers, as well as when interfacing with colleagues.
• Fluent in reading, writing, and speaking English.
• Able to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Able to write professional reports and professional correspondence.
• Able to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Able to compute rates, ratios, and percentages, and draw and interpret bar charts.

Job Type: Full-time, Exempt