Facilities Operative - Security Guard

As Facilities Operative, you'll be working alongside our Property Services team to create a warm welcome and secure environment for all our colleagues and their visitors and carrying out the key roles and responsibilities we've included below.

This role is part of Business Services, in the Resilience & Agility Community, which is responsible for our other properties, employee facing services that support the day to day running of our operations, our workplace strategy and delivery service and regulatory communications to our members.

This is a new role in our Property Services team to deliver security services and front of house customer experience at our building at Threadneedle Street, London.

12 hour shifts across a 7 day rota

4 days on ( 7am to 7pm ) 4 days off

4 Nights on ( 7pm to 7am ) 4 nights off

What you'll be doing

You'll be responsible for maintaining a professional, visible presence in the building, managing and monitoring our access points and working alongside our other Property Services team colleagues to manage entry and security as appropriate. You'll be welcoming colleagues and visitors and issuing visitor or access badges using the right security processes and security systems.

You'll need to monitor our surveillance equipment, report and record observations, undertake regular patrols and be a point of escalation to assist with any incidents. You'll make sure that all colleagues adhere to our health, safety and security guidelines and report any issues to the relevant channels while being there to help colleagues and visitors who need support.

About you

As a minimum you'll need to have or be:

• Recent experience in a physical security based role
• Surveillance, communication, and reporting experience
• An understanding of the security requirements and processes within buildings
• Attentive and friendly nature, customer focused with an ability to relate at all levels when communicating with employees and visitors
• Punctual, reliable and trustworthy
• Deals with uncertainty using judgement and objectivity
• Basic computer knowledge
• Security Institute accreditation and training (SIA)

We're also interested in who you are as a person. Why? Because our membership is made up of so many different kinds of people, so we want our employees to be just as diverse. We'd love to hear about:

• Your values, and what makes you who you are
• How you'd make a difference to our members in this role

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you're sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it's a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

Lorien Internal is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.