Purpose of the Role

The Security Area Manager Leeds will play a crucial role in ensuring the effective management and coordination of security operations across sites within the Savills UK portfolio across Leeds and the surrounding areas. This role is responsible for maintaining a safe and secure environment for clients, tenants, and staff through strategic planning, onsite presence, and close collaboration with security teams and stakeholders.

The role will include the general management, compliance, site support and management of the security services teams within your designated area.

Ensuring that every member of the team within this area is operating within the regulations of the Savills Quality Management System.

Conducting site assurance visits to ensure the sites are supported in delivering both central and site-based objectives, ensuring high levels of service delivery through subject matter expertise, training guidance and action planning and sites are delivering against the Security Operations strategy.

Key Responsibilities

GENERAL

• To produce regular update reports to the Security Lead on the security functions and related issues at sites.
• Monitor vacancies and support sites in recruitment where required.
• Work with our support agency service partners and other suppliers to conduct regular KPI reviews, ensuring services delivery to sites is maintained and improved where required.

EXPECT

• Conduct site assurance and support visits, ensuring compliance with all internal procedures, Security ISO9001 standard operating procedures, forms, local site processes, including site Assignment Instructions are completed on each property on a regular basis and any action points are raised with the appropriate manager.
• Ensure compliance with all external bodies including enforcement agencies and auditory bodies.
• Supporting the developing and implementation of any additional security policies, protocols and procedures.
• Ensure the overall effective and efficient delivery of security services, including a focus on delivery a exceptional customer experience for our visitors and stakeholders.
• Support sites in their security requirements, which may include developing rotas ensuring all shifts are covered and service delivery is not impacted by absence.
• Ensure time sheets are correctly compiled, on schedule, for audit, invoicing and pay purposes for any directly managed sites.
• Create reports for site and central management on security services where applicable.
• Support with the recruitment, training and supervision of Security Operatives.
• Ensure all Security staff are trained in line with statutory and internal requirements, ensuring a training matrix is kept up to date with all training delivered and scheduled, helping to identify any skills gaps within the team.
• Ensure all staff undertake thorough inductions into their positions in accordance with local site induction plans and central induction policies.
• To review and process all incidents using the site incident reporting system, to conduct investigations and to produce regular incident reporting information as required on the security workstream.
• Report any significant incidents, [Environmental or Health & Safety] to the relevant central team [FM+ / Safety + / People +]
• Ensure all regulations both statutory and site led in relation to Health & Safety; Environmental and Quality Procedures are followed.
• To ensure all work is carried out in a safe manner and in accordance with the relevant H&S regulations, carrying out any necessary training and tool box talks to ensure that your teams are fully compliant.
• Co-ordinate and assist in any emergency responses, i.e. evacuation, incident management where required.
• Investigate and resolve issues as per the Site Assignment instructions and Company Employee Handbook.
• Effectively support and manage employment relations issues including absence management, performance development reviews (PDRs), disciplinary issues, etc., in accordance with Company personnel procedures and in collaboration with the regional HR Advisor/HR Business Partners.