# Global Director, Physical Security **Company**: WSP **Location**: Chicago, IL **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $133,400-$223,600 **Category**: Physical Security **Industry**: Consulting **Apply**: https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/98367?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_037f7c45-0fd ## Description The Global Director, Physical Security is a senior leader responsible for developing and translating WSP's global physical security policy, frameworks, standards, and technology roadmap into consistent, scalable execution across the global portfolio of offices, laboratories, and warehouses. **Key Accountabilities:** **Global Strategy, Policy and Governance** - Implement the global physical security strategy and operating model - Drive adoption of global physical security policies, standards, control frameworks, procedures, and governance requirements - Create implementation plans, tools, guidance, and reporting - Maintain a structured exception and escalation process - Prepare program updates, risk insights, and recommendations **Security Operations** - Provide global oversight of day-to-day physical security operations - Establish consistent operating requirements for guarding, access management, visitor management, alarm response, incident escalation, key management, and other site security services - Define service expectations, performance measures, and escalation paths - Monitor operational performance and recurring issues - Support the development and maintenance of local site security plans **Security Risk Assessments and Control Assurance** - Lead the rollout and ongoing management of the global physical security risk assessment program - Ensure sites are assessed using the approved tiering model, controls matrix, and risk-scoring methodology - Oversee the prioritization, tracking, and closure of identified security gaps and remediation actions - Maintain a consolidated view of portfolio risk, control maturity, exceptions, and improvement priorities **Security Technology and Implementation** - Lead execution of the global physical security technology roadmap - Oversee global and regional implementation initiatives - Promote consistent use of approved technology standards - Partner with Information Technology, cybersecurity, privacy, procurement, and project teams **Real Estate and Capital Project Integration** - Embed physical security requirements into new builds, relocations, renovations, lease events, and major restacks - Provide or coordinate security input during site selection, due diligence, programming, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover - Review project designs for alignment with the approved building tier, controls matrix, design standards, technology standards, and local risk profile **Vendor, Budget and Performance Management** - Oversee the performance of security integrators, guarding providers, monitoring providers, and other physical security vendors - Contribute to sourcing strategies, scopes of work, service-level requirements, evaluation criteria, and contract governance - Develop operational and capital forecasts for physical security programs, technology, and remediation initiatives - Track cost, service, risk, and implementation performance **Stakeholder and Team Leadership** - Act as a trusted physical security partner to global and regional Workplace leaders and key corporate functions - Lead through a matrixed global structure - Build security awareness and capability through guidance, communications, training, and communities of practice - Develop direct reports and extended team members **Success Measures** - Consistent adoption of global physical security policies, standards, tiering, and control requirements - Improved visibility of portfolio risk, control gaps, remediation status, and operational performance - Timely completion of security assessments and risk-based remediation plans - On-time, controlled delivery of security technology and capital initiatives - Reliable security operations with clear service expectations, escalation paths, and vendor accountability **Who You Are** **Required Qualifications** - Bachelor's degree in Security Management, Criminal Justice, Risk Management, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline - Typically 12 or more years of progressive corporate physical security experience - Demonstrated experience implementing enterprise physical security programs, policies, standards, risk assessments, and control frameworks - Strong operational experience overseeing security services and physical security technology **Knowledge and Capabilities** - Strong knowledge of access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, visitor management, alarm monitoring, guarding, and associated operating practices - Practical knowledge of physical security risk assessment, site tiering, control assurance, incident escalation, and remediation planning - Ability to convert strategy and policy into scalable processes, implementation plans, tools, and measurable outcomes - Strong program and project leadership skills - Commercial capability in vendor governance, sourcing, contract performance, budgeting, and business-case development - Excellent stakeholder management, written communication, and executive presentation skills **Leadership Profile** - Execution-focused and able to move global frameworks from design into sustained operation - Comfortable balancing global consistency with justified regional and site-level flexibility - Data-driven, structured, and focused on measurable risk reduction and service improvement - Collaborative and able to build credibility across Workplace, business, technical, and corporate functions ## Skills ### Required - Security Management - Criminal Justice - Risk Management - Business - Engineering - access control - video surveillance - intrusion detection - visitor management - alarm monitoring - guarding ### Nice to have - CPP - PSP - PMP --- Source: [Apply at emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com](https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/98367?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)