Physical Security

About the role

Supports physical security programs (PSP) and key components of our business continuity programs (BCP) to holistically address the company’s operational security and continuity of business operation’s needs.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to providing for the physical protection of employees, visitors, facilities, and information.
• Contributes to conducting business impact analysis (BIA) to ensure consistency of compliance across the physical security enterprise.
• Aids in day-to-day security activities including access control, incident reporting, loss prevention, and coordination with internal teams and external agencies.
• Ensures compliance with company policies, legal requirements, and applicable regulations.
• Supports execution of physical security operations across assigned sites or functions.
• Contributes to achieving operational targets related to safety, access control, incident management, and loss prevention.
• Escalates security incidents, risks, and non-compliance issues appropriately.
• Communicates with internal stakeholders and external parties such as security vendors, building management, and local authorities.
• Maintains accurate reports, logs, and security documentation.
• Supports moderately complex projects, processes, or operations within the physical security function.
• Delivers assigned operational objectives with direct contribution to team outcomes.
• Works under general supervision, following defined policies, standards, and procedures.
• Assists with conducting BIAs across business units to identify critical processes, recovery requirements (RTO/RPO), and operational dependencies.
• Supports continuity risk assessments and identify operational vulnerabilities or single points of failure.
• Affords support to continuity exercises, plan validations, and lessons-learned tracking.
• Prepares summaries and reporting for leadership, ensuring audit-ready documentation.

Requirements

• University degree or equivalent relevant qualification in fields such as Security Management, Business Continuity, Emergency Management, Risk Management, or a related discipline.
• Understanding of corporate security policies, regulatory requirements, and foundational BCM/BIA concepts, including recovery objectives, risk identification, and continuity planning expectations.
• Strong documentation, communication, and coordination skills, including the ability to clearly capture incident details, continuity impacts, BIA findings, and crisis response actions for both operational teams and leadership.

Qualifications

• Willingness to take up challenging role, enthusiastic, proactive.
• Collaborative approach and work well with team members.

Skills

• Apply standard security procedures and practices to resolve routine and moderately complex issues.
• Identifies operational risks or gaps and recommends improvements within established guidelines.
• Escalates non-standard or higher-risk issues.
• Uses judgment based on experience to support effective incident response.

Benefits

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.