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The role partners with regional Workplace teams and corporate functions to strengthen governance, improve risk visibility, standardize controls, and support safe, resilient workplace operations while allowing for documented regional and site-specific requirements.\nYour Impact\nKey Accountabilities\nGlobal Strategy, Policy and Governance\nImplement the global physical security strategy and operating model under the direction of the Head of Global Facilities and Physical Security.\nDrive adoption of global physical security policies, standards, control frameworks, procedures, and governance requirements across regions and sites.\nCreate implementation plans, tools, guidance, and reporting that translate global requirements into clear regional and local actions.\nMaintain a structured exception and escalation process for local legal, regulatory, operational, or building-specific requirements.\nPrepare program updates, risk insights, and recommendations for Workplace and senior leadership.\nSecurity Operations\nProvide global oversight of day-to-day physical security operations across offices, laboratories, and warehouses.\nEstablish consistent operating requirements for guarding, access management, visitor management, alarm response, incident escalation, key management, and other site security services.\nDefine service expectations, performance measures, and escalation paths for regional teams, local site teams, and security service providers.\nMonitor operational performance and recurring issues, identify root causes, and lead corrective and continuous-improvement actions.\nSupport the development and maintenance of local site security plans, post orders, response procedures, and operational playbooks.\nCoordinate the physical security response to workplace incidents in accordance with WSP’s global and regional crisis management and business continuity procedures.\nSecurity Risk Assessments and Control Assurance\nLead the rollout and ongoing management of the global physical security risk assessment program.\nEnsure sites are assessed using the approved tiering model, controls matrix, and risk-scoring methodology.\nOversee the prioritization, tracking, and closure of identified security gaps and remediation actions.\nMaintain a consolidated view of portfolio risk, control maturity, exceptions, and improvement priorities.\nUse assessment results and operational data to inform capital planning, technology deployment, and resource decisions.\nSecurity Technology and Implementation\nLead execution of the global physical security technology roadmap for access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, visitor management, and related platforms.\nOversee global and regional implementation initiatives, including requirements definition, design review, deployment governance, testing, commissioning, handover, and operational stabilization.\nPromote consistent use of approved technology standards while managing documented regional constraints and integration requirements.\nPartner with Information Technology, cybersecurity, privacy, procurement, and project teams to address system architecture, connectivity, data protection, support, and lifecycle requirements.\nEstablish asset, configuration, maintenance, support, and replacement-planning requirements for the security technology estate.\nDevelop and govern the responsible use of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics within the physical security program, identifying practical use cases that improve risk visibility, event detection, operational efficiency, and decision support while addressing privacy, cybersecurity, legal, ethical, data-quality, and human-oversight requirements.\nReal Estate and Capital Project Integration\nEmbed physical security requirements into new builds, relocations, renovations, lease events, and major restacks.\nProvide or coordinate security input during site selection, due diligence, programming, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.\nReview project designs for alignment with the approved building tier, controls matrix, design standards, technology standards, and local risk profile.\nWork with Corporate Real Estate, Project Services, Facilities Management, Information Technology, and external design and construction partners to resolve requirements early and reduce redesign.\nVendor, Budget and Performance Management\nOversee the performance of security integrators, guarding providers, monitoring providers, and other physical security vendors supporting the global portfolio.\nContribute to sourcing strategies, scopes of work, service-level requirements, evaluation criteria, and contract governance.\nDevelop operational and capital forecasts for physical security programs, technology, and remediation initiatives.\nTrack cost, service, risk, and implementation performance through clear metrics and dashboards.\nIdentify opportunities to standardize services, simplify the vendor landscape, improve value, and strengthen accountability.\nStakeholder and Team Leadership\nAct as a trusted physical security partner to global and regional Workplace leaders and key corporate functions.\nLead through a matrixed global structure, providing clear direction, implementation support, and accountability to regional and local stakeholders.\nBuild security awareness and capability through guidance, communications, training, and communities of practice.\nDevelop direct reports and extended team members, where applicable, with clear objectives, roles, and performance expectations.\nRepresent physical security in relevant Workplace governance forums, project reviews, and cross-functional working groups.\nSuccess Measures\nConsistent adoption of global physical security policies, standards, tiering, and control requirements.\nImproved visibility of portfolio risk, control gaps, remediation status, and operational performance.\nTimely completion of security assessments and risk-based remediation plans.\nOn-time, controlled delivery of security technology and capital initiatives.\nReliable security operations with clear service expectations, escalation paths, and vendor accountability.\nReduced design rework through earlier integration of security requirements into real estate projects.\nPractical regional flexibility managed through documented governance rather than inconsistent local practices.\nWho You Are\nRequired Qualifications\nEducation and Experience\nBachelor’s degree in Security Management, Criminal Justice, Risk Management, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.\nTypically 12 or more years of progressive corporate physical security experience, including leadership responsibility across multiple countries or regions.\nDemonstrated experience implementing enterprise physical security programs, policies, standards, risk assessments, and control frameworks.\nStrong operational experience overseeing security services and physical security technology across a geographically dispersed portfolio.\nExperience supporting offices and complex operational environments such as laboratories and warehouses.\nExperience integrating physical security requirements into real estate, design, construction, and facilities management processes.\nExperience managing vendors, budgets, capital programs, and measurable service performance.\nKnowledge and Capabilities\nStrong knowledge of access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, visitor management, alarm monitoring, guarding, and associated operating practices.\nPractical knowledge of physical security risk assessment, site tiering, control assurance, incident escalation, and remediation planning.\nAbility to convert strategy and policy into scalable processes, implementation plans, tools, and measurable outcomes.\nStrong program and project leadership skills, including the ability to manage multiple global workstreams and dependencies.\nCommercial capability in vendor governance, sourcing, contract performance, budgeting, and business-case development.\nExcellent stakeholder management, written communication, and executive presentation skills.\nAbility to influence and deliver results in a global, matrixed organization while respecting regional legal, cultural, and operational differences.\nProfessional certifications such as CPP, PSP, or PMP are desirable.\nLeadership Profile\nExecution-focused and able to move global frameworks from design into sustained operation.\nComfortable balancing global consistency with justified regional and site-level flexibility.\nData-driven, structured, and focused on measurable risk reduction and service improvement.\nCollaborative and able to build credibility across Workplace, business, technical, and corporate functions.\nCalm, practical, and decisive when managing complex operational issues and competing priorities.\nRole Scope and Travel\nThis is a global role 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The position requires collaboration across time zones and periodic domestic and international travel based on business, project, assessment, and incident-response needs.\nOrganizational Impact\nThe Global Director, Physical Security enables WSP to move from policy and framework development to consistent global execution. The role strengthens security operations, improves control assurance, guides\nWSP Benefits: \nWSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.\nCompensation:\nExpected Salary (all locations): $133,400-$223,600\nWSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. 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