Job Purpose:

The Project Security Manager (PSM) provides security consultancy, management, and quality assurance to all key stakeholders on this client contract in Basra. The PSM is the primary interface between the client and the company.

The PSM will be responsible for the maintenance of a high level of standards and disciplines within the armed protection team, ensuring that all conduct is in line with Control Risks SOP’s

Rotation 6/6 weeks

Role tasks and responsibilities 

Security Management

• Conduct full threat and vulnerability assessment of operations in close coordination with the client and Control Risks personnel.
• Producing and maintaining the project specific SOP’s, ensuring they remain current and in line with changes to the operating environment.
• Lead on the mobilisation of additional armed protection teams, ensuring that they are compliant with the client minimum operating security standards.
• In conjunction with client security, maintain evacuation and medical plans.
• Maintaining responsibility of managing security within the client operations and identification of threats.
• Review existing contingency plans and, where appropriate, develop and exercise these under direction and guidance of the client.
• Monitors local security threat conditions and advises of issues likely to impact the project’s movements and operations.
• Oversees the armed protection teams, to ensure the effective provision of security to our client in line with our SOP’s.
• Provide a weekly and end of month summary to the client of the project’s manning and vehicle (MAV) usage.
• Production of documentation to support billing in line with the MAV summary.
• Production of a client monthly report detailing a summary of the previous month’s activities and project statistics.
• Incident management, ensuring that all relevant information is communicated to the business and client within report timelines.
• Maintain high standards of customer service.

Operations Management

• Ensuring that armed protection team tasks are conducted in line with the client produced Daily Tasking Sheet.
• Oversee the collection of weekly statistics relating to mileage of the projects vehicles to ensure compliance to vehicle servicing schedules.
• Coordinate the movement of armed protection teams for administrative tasks outside of the Daily Tasking Sheet.
• Participate in and coordinate the response to emergency security calls.
• Oversight and quality control, including reporting of contract manning levels to the client.
• Liaise and engage with all stakeholders within client operation to help ease relationships and understanding
• Assist and manage the security implications.
• Develop and maintain contract Quality Assurance and Quality Capability on client operations.
• Comply with all client reporting requirements.