Senior Physical Security Consultant

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Are you curious, client-focused, and motivated by complex security challenges? Join our dynamic team in Ottawa, Toronto, or remotely as a Senior Physical Security Consultant.

In this role, you will help clients protect people, assets, operations, and communities across the defense, justice, government, industrial, critical infrastructure, transportation, health care, commercial, and institutional sectors. You will lead client engagements, provide strategic guidance, conduct threat and risk assessments, develop security strategies and requirements, support project delivery, mentor team members, and contribute to business development initiatives.

You’ll do this as part of Stantec, a global firm of 34,000 employees working in more than 450 offices across six continents.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in physical security consulting, security planning, threat and risk assessment, security operations, or security program advisory.

• Demonstrated experience leading complex consulting assignments, facilitating stakeholder workshops, and advising multidisciplinary project teams.

• Strong knowledge of physical security principles, including access control strategy, video surveillance intent, intrusion detection concepts, perimeter protection, hostile vehicle mitigation planning, protective design coordination, and security operations.

• Knowledge of ASIS, ULC, CSA, ASTM, Government of Canada security guidance, and other applicable physical security standards, guidelines, and established principles.

• Excellent report-writing, facilitation, presentation, executive communication, and client relationship skills.

• Ethics, honesty, diligence, professionalism, and discretion.

• Be eligible to obtain a federal government security clearance (required).

Preferred Qualifications

• ASIS PSP, CPP, CPTED, P.Eng. or equivalent professional designation is preferred.

• Experience with Government of Canada, DND, PSPC, RCMP, justice, transportation, critical infrastructure, or other high-security clients.

• Knowledge of HTRA, NDSOD, federal security requirements, security planning frameworks, and security governance documentation.

• Bilingualism in English and French is an asset.