Are you an experienced and motivated Organisational Resilience professional with a track record in developing, maintaining and testing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans?

Do you have excellent interpersonal, leadership, investigative and problem solving skills?

Are you considering what's next for your career?

Then we would love to hear from you!!!

The Opportunity:

We are looking for an Organisational Resilience Lead to join the Security function at Laing O'Rourke, reporting to the Europe Hub Head of Security.  This role could be based from our corporate offices in Dartford, Sale or our manufacturing facility in Worksop, Nottinghamshire.

As the Organisational Resilience Lead you will be responsible for implementing and overseeing Business Continuity and Crisis Management policies and standards across the business.  You will serve as the primary contact for Business Continuity and Crisis Management planning and response, working closely with stakeholders and the wider security team. This role is crucial in safeguarding the company's operations and reputation.

What will the role look like?

• Leading the ongoing development, management and embedding of LOR's Organisational Resilience Framework and meeting the needs of relevant regulations.
• Driving LOR's business continuity and crisis management exercise programmes.
• Reviewing and refining resilience controls/metrics used to assess vulnerability of mapped assets.
• Coordinating and overseeing regular completion of resilience assessments across business areas.
• Leading on the identification and implementation of continuous improvement strategies across resilience processes and procedures.
• Managing the crisis management response and coordination to protect essential outcomes and effectively restore services.
• Driving lessons learnt and support the implementation of identified actions to improve the incident response plan and improve business continuity.
• Managing and maintaining compliance at all times regarding relevant governance, accreditation and resilience policies.
• Building strong relationships across LOR's business areas and particularly IT in relation to the Disaster Recovery Strategy.
• Maintaining a dynamic and engaging approach to resilience management through the delivery of an embedding programme, ensuring that resilience and best practice is embedded at all levels within the organisation.
• Reporting key metrics and improvement areas to senior security management
• Partnering with the security team to support the secure by design process, ISO accreditations and wider security portfolio.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

Essential:

• Proven experience 5 years+ in an Organisational Resilience role, preferably in a corporate or industrial setting.
• Proven track record in developing, maintaining and testing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans
• Audit, assurance and review experience
• Strong IT capability – Microsoft PowerBi
• Self-motivated individual with an effective time management skill set

Desired:

• Experience of conducting investigations
• Experience of working with ISO 27001 standards
• Knowledge and application of physical security principles, methodologies, risk assessments and industry standards
• Understanding of security compliance

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com