Security Project Coordinator - Senior Associate

Location: Dallas, Birmingham, Rogers, Des Moines, Chicago, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Nashville, Memphis, Austin, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Milwaukee, Jackson

About the role

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The Senior Associate, Security Project Coordinator will support the planning, coordination, execution, and reporting of physical security projects across the firm’s office portfolio. This role is being added to strengthen project delivery capacity in response to a significant increase in FY27 security project demand, including End-of-Life security infrastructure replacements, card reader upgrades, and future real estate construction and office projects. The position will work closely with internal stakeholders, vendors, procurement, facilities, technology, and project delivery teams to ensure physical security projects are planned, scheduled, installed, commissioned, and handed off effectively. The role will help reduce delivery risk, improve project oversight, support stakeholder communications, and create additional resiliency within the physical security project team.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate physical security projects involving DVR systems, CCTV camera systems, security panels, access control infrastructure, and related security technology replacements.
• Support delivery of the FY27 End-of-Life security project portfolio, including coordination activities across vendors, procurement, budgeting, scheduling, stakeholder communications, installation oversight, and project reporting.
• Assist with the execution and tracking of card reader upgrade work planned for FY27.
• Coordinate security planning and implementation activities for new real estate construction and office projects through 2030, including access control, CCTV deployment, commissioning, and operational handoff.
• Maintain project schedules, status updates, issue logs, and reporting materials to support visibility across multiple concurrent security projects.
• Serve as a coordination point between physical security, vendors, procurement, workplace/facilities teams, technology teams, and business stakeholders to keep project activities aligned and moving forward.
• Support installation oversight, commissioning activities, and operational handoff to ensure completed security projects are ready for steady-state support.
• Help identify project risks, schedule constraints, resource conflicts, and delivery issues early so they can be escalated and addressed.
• Contribute to knowledge transfer, succession planning, and team continuity by documenting project information, lessons learned, and repeatable processes.

Requirements

• Experience coordinating projects, preferably in physical security, workplace technology, facilities, construction, real estate, or infrastructure environments.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams, schedules, vendors, and project dependencies.
• Experience supporting stakeholder communications, project reporting, meeting coordination, and issue tracking.
• Ability to work with internal business partners, vendors, procurement teams, technology teams, and facilities or workplace stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to summarize project status, risks, decisions, and next steps clearly.
• Working knowledge of security systems such as access control, CCTV, DVR/NVR systems, card readers, or security panels is preferred.
• Ability to operate in a high-volume project environment with competing priorities and changing timelines.
• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• Approximately 4-6 years of related experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting End-of-Life technology replacement, refresh, or modernization programs.
• Familiarity with office construction, renovation, workplace transformation, or real estate project delivery.
• Experience coordinating external vendors, installation partners, or contractors.
• Familiarity with project management tools, reporting dashboards, procurement processes, budgeting coordination, or project documentation.
• Understanding of physical security operations, including access control implementation, CCTV deployment, commissioning, and operational handoff.

Benefits

At EY, we offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.

• Flexible vacation policy where you decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances.
• Time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

Pay

The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $64,200 to $116,400. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $77,000 to $132,300. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.

Schedule

Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.