JD MEPSS Principal Security Lead at Fortis Engineering Services

Fortis Engineering is a solutions-driven company serving Africa’s energy, oil and gas and mining industries with expertise in civil construction, asset integrity, maintenance, procurement, fabrication, installations, and O&M — delivered with precision, resilience, and safety.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: JD MEPSS Principal Security Lead

Location: Nigeria
Service Type: Security Lead to be deployed by a suitable service provider.

Service Description

• Support in the identification and development of security mitigation plans aimed at managing project security risks to as low as reasonably practicable.
• Support the delivery of security input in cross-discipline integration workshops and functions.
• Support the provision of all security deliverables required as per the opportunity realization standards (ORS) Decision Gates 1-4.
• Apply security technology and industry solutions to enhance security of projects and reduce operating costs.
• Actively participate in all pre-DG4 project cadence meetings and support project package leads to manage project security risks to ALARP.
• Ensure compliance with security policies, procedures and standards as per Group Security Standards and the Group SEAM Framework.
• Support documentation and seamless transfer of security deliverables from pre-DG3 to execution stage team.
• Direct oversight of assurance on the effectiveness of company and contractor security plans.
• Monitor functionality and effectiveness of all physical measures/barriers at project site to deter, deny, detect, delay, and respond to security threats.
• Engage Security Coordinator and Intelligence team daily to gathering and share timely intelligence on security threats and associated risks likely to impact Project activities.
• Interface with Bonga FPSO and Security Operations Centre to maintain common operating picture with all SCiN operations.
• Participation in daily integrated logistics planning to ensure delivery of all project specific movements.
• Collaborate with Project Site Security Coordinator to assure availability and adequacy of GSAs and fit for purpose security vessels at project worksite.
• Collaborate with project security team to coordinate security responses to emergencies.
• Conduct Security LOD1 assurance on all Project activities and movements.
• Drive consistent implementation of security mitigations at offshore worksite, and all project movements in line with approved security plan to manage security risks to ALARP.
• Collaborate with project Security to conduct regular security drills and ensures learnings / recommendations are implemented.
• Collaborate with Contractor security team to provide briefings on Voluntary Principle on Security and Human Rights (VPSHR) for all GSAs supporting Project and report violations.
• Support the development of the pre-startup/ handover security risk assessment.

Requisite Qualifications

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree from a recognized institution. Post graduate qualification in relevant fields will be an advantage.
• Professional certification in industrial security (PFSO, PSP and/or CPP from ASIS or equivalent body) will be an advantage.
• Good knowledge of E&P business, especially in the Niger Delta and Gulf of Guinea.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience with minimum of 5 years industrial security experience in the oil and gas sector.
• Strong project management, analytics, planning, communication and writing skills.
• Ability to work across teams and collaborate with others to deliver results.
• Good computing skills and experience with managing data, creating, and managing simple databases and general use of spreadsheet for activity planning.
• Experience with SharePoint and use of Excel may be an advantage.
• Experience in security fleet management will be an advantage.

Application Closing Date
5th December, 2025.