Security Lead; Physical Security Domain

Air Nav Ireland Headquarters, Dublin 2
Closing date: 13/03/2026

Security Lead(Physical Security Domain) is responsible for leading the delivery, implementation, and oversight of all physical security requirements across Air Nav Ireland’s operational and critical national infrastructure facilities. The postholder ensures full compliance with the NCASP and all relevant aviation security regulations, leads enterprise-wide threat and risk functions, leads major incident investigations, and drives security resilience and continuous improvement in alignment with national and international best practices.

The post holder will be responsible for the implementation of a fully compliant Security Management System (SeMS) within the physical domain across a large company portfolio of critical national infrastructure sites, facilities, assets and amongst all staff, contractors and visitors
. The post holder must ensure that all security activities within the physical security domain are carried out within the scope of the security management system and comply fully with the requirements as defined by related International, European and National regulations.

• Ensure the compliant implementation of all relevant legal, regulatory, and business/quality standards and ensure compliance is measured, assessed, and continuously improved
• Ensure end-to-end implementation of and compliance with the National Civil Aviation Security Programme (NCASP) in consultation with the Security Manager, identify & communicate changes and establish appropriate processes, policies, and procedures
• Ensure the compliance of the company’s Security Management System (SeMS) Programme, identify gaps & improvement opportunities, and proactively mitigate against potential non-compliances
• Interpret emerging International, European and National regulatory changes and develop implementation plans
• Act as a security advisor to the Security Manager on physical security risk and lead organisational alignment with critical national infrastructure protection frameworks

• Conduct comprehensive security surveys, inspections, tests, audits and contingency exercises of the company’s facilities, processes, security services and security posture
• Lead the integration of aviation threat intelligence feeds and conduct Threat analysis and Risk Assessments (TARA’s) across the company’s portfolio of sites, facilities and assets
• Ensure effective threat and risk management processes and procedures are implemented and applied in a consistent manner
• Ensure that vulnerability mapping is undertaken, regularly assessed with appropriate mitigations and action plans delivered to eliminate vulnerabilities in so far as is reasonably practicable
• Ensure the delivery of both the insider threat strategy & plan and the rolling overall security strategy & plan, provide informed inputs to the future plans and ensure the deliverables are achieved with effective measurement tools applied
• Ensure that all facilities, assets and people are protected from acts of unlawful interference and lead key projects focused on enhancing the company’s security infrastructure and posture to an appropriate level
• As Lead Threat and Risk Assessor, ensure that all security occurrences are analysed, processed, investigated and reported in a compliant manner with lessons learned identified and effectively communicated
• Ensure the full risk assessment programme is completed on an annual basis across all main centres and relevant remote sites with detailed reports, analysis, and risk treatment plans
• Conduct regular reviews of the security risk register, ensure the risk profile is managed and ensure communication and alignment with the enterprise risk register
• Ensure that appropriate reporting systems and processes are in place including voluntary & confidential reporting systems

• Enhance the security operational efficiency standards and overall compliance level through appropriate and achievable objectives
• Identify appropriate security systems, equipment and solutions which deliver improved security performance, reliability,…