Site officers, gatehouse and access control, supervisors and site security managers, appointed for the duration of a scheme or permanently to a contractor’s establishment.
A construction site is a security problem from the day the hoarding goes up and remains one until handover. There is plant worth tens of thousands of pounds standing idle overnight, materials that can be resold within hours of leaving the gate, a workforce that changes week by week, and a perimeter that has to stay permeable enough for deliveries while staying closed to everyone else.
We recruit the people who hold that line. Principal contractors, developers and the security contractors engaged by them instruct us to find officers, supervisors and managers who can be trusted around a live site, and who understand that a construction environment answers to a health and safety regime as much as to a security one.
The scale of the scheme does not change how the search is run. Whether the requirement is a single officer on a gatehouse or a full security establishment across a multi-phase development, we take a written brief, work the market directly, and present only candidates whose screening is complete.
The roles a construction or infrastructure scheme most often needs filled are set out below. Where a requirement falls outside them, we will tell you whether we are able to assist rather than take the instruction regardless.
A construction post is not a static guarding post. The officer is managing deliveries, contractors, plant movements and visitors against a programme that changes weekly, and doing it inside somebody else’s safety regime.
We screen for judgement under that pressure as much as for the licence. An officer who cannot hold a line with a frustrated delivery driver, or who will not challenge a contractor without a permit, is of no use to a principal contractor however clean their paperwork is.
Where the scheme sits within critical national infrastructure, or where the client operates a clearance requirement above the standard commercial position, tell us at the brief stage. It changes the pool materially and it is far cheaper to know at the outset.
Several conditions are pressing on construction security at once, and each of them raises the standard expected of the people in post.
Data centres, energy generation and distribution schemes, transport works and the physical infrastructure underpinning the Government’s technology programmes are proceeding at the same time. They draw on the same pool of screened, licensed officers, and that pool is finite.
Site theft is frequently organised rather than opportunistic: approaches are timed around shift patterns and goods can be away within hours. An officer who records registration numbers properly and challenges an unfamiliar vehicle is worth considerably more than one who does not.
Regulation 13(4)(b) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 requires a principal contractor to ensure that the necessary steps are taken to prevent access by unauthorised persons to the construction site. Insurance terms commonly assume a competent security presence as well. The person in post is part of how both are discharged.
An appointment for the life of a scheme attracts the same screening as a permanent one. A candidate who will hold the gatehouse for eighteen months is screened to BS 7858:2019 exactly as a candidate appointed indefinitely would be.
Tell us the scheme, its location, the phase it has reached and the establishment you need to stand up. We will tell you what is realistic on the timescale you have, and say so plainly if it is not.
Every enquiry is read and answered personally.