Railway Security Expert

Job description / Role

Overview

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration - through conceptualization - to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years we've led with vision, contributing to many of the world's most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 57th largest global architecture firm and the #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2023 WA100 Survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you'll discover more than just a job - you'll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics.

You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams and beach clean ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, employee referral rewards, mentoring and coaching programs and extensive in-house on demand learning courses.

Responsibilities

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Railway Security Expert to join our team, based in Doha, Qatar. This position is responsible for development of security, stakeholder engagement and tender development covering the scope of the project.

We envisage success in this role to include;

- Develop strategies and concepts to secure the railway corridor (national and / or international routes), stations, freight facilities, depots and critical infrastructure.
- Develop strategies and concepts for securing origin (O) to a destination (D) concept for international travel without the need to stop at the border for inspection (for passenger and freight transport).
- Develop strategies and concepts for securing facilities in both operational and construction phases.
- Develop and provide strategic advice to inform negotiations for Intergovernmental agreements as pertaining to cross border operations.
- Support preparation of tender documents or any other documents required for the procurement of cross border operations and enabling activities.
- Developing innovative and state-of-the-art security solutions to secure the railway network, making use of latest industry best practice.
- Evaluation of pilot studies and assessment to inform reporting to the executive.

To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include minimum 10 years with railway security. Preferably with background in strategic military operations and government security interface. Background in providing expert advice into the security elements as pertaining to the design and build of greenfield / brownfield railway networks in the Arabian Gulf, partnered with a relevant security qualifications.

- Extensive knowledge of GCC government security and emergency services infrastructure.
- Extensive knowledge in all fields of transport security planning, physical security, security integration and frameworks.
- Extensive knowledge of security, emergency response and crisis requirements for designing and building greenfield railway networks.
- Knowledge of cross border security, immigration, and regulatory processes.
- Extensive knowledge and experience with Arabian Gulf Stakeholder engagement.
- Extensive experience in railway Security Threat and Risk assessments and mitigation solutions.
- Excellent skills MS Office.

KEO's performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. We embrace diversity and recognise its' contribution to client success wherever we work.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.

About the Company

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 57 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is ranked by ENR in the Top 225 International Design Firms; in the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms; and by World Architecture as 50th largest global architecture firm and #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2021 WAS 100 Survey.

We invite you to join us.