Principal Security Design Engineer

AECOM · Manchester, England ·

Last confirmed by our partners on 20 Oct 2026.

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Overview

As Principal Designer in the Security & Technology Engineering team, you lead high-level security engineering on complex builds and fit-outs, guiding risk-based decisions from planning through delivery. You will shape master plans for city-scale and mixed-use developments while designing physical and electronic security solutions.

Your work supports safer, smarter buildings across major projects worldwide, contributing to a mission of delivering a better world. This role offers strategic impact, collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams, and opportunities to influence security design standards.

Pay / Benefits

  • hybrid working model
  • career development opportunities
  • AECOM University
  • volunteering days
  • well-being programs
  • flexible benefits

Responsibilities

  • Manage high-level security engineering services on new builds and fit-outs across RIBA stages
  • Conduct risk assessments, develop mitigation strategies, and write operational requirements
  • Lead master planning from city-level to mixed-use developments
  • Design physical security solutions (locking, walls, glazing, doors, barriers, fencing)
  • Create electronic security designs (video surveillance, access control, intruder detection, intercom)
  • Provide counter-terrorism guidance including Hostile Vehicle Mitigation, bomb blast, and ballistics in partnership with specialists

Key requirements

  • Prior experience in Security Engineering
  • RSES, CSyP, MSyI or PSP with CPD commitment
  • Business development experience
  • Relevant qualification in a security or engineering related discipline
  • Well-established expertise in Security Consultancy
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic thinking
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Security engineering
  • Physical security design
  • Electronic security systems (video surveillance, access control, intruder detection, intercom)
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