Senior Manager VCP (Vehicle Control Points) & Screening Operations📣 إعلان

About the Role

Qiddiya Investment Company is seeking a Senior Manager - VCP (Vehicle Control Points) & Screening Operations to lead specialist screening and enhanced-security capabilities. This full-time role encompasses vehicle access control points, pedestrian screening locations, event venues, asset openings, and heightened security operations. The Senior Manager is accountable for the design input, readiness, mobilisation, performance, and assurance of all vehicle scanning, baggage X-ray, metal detection, personal search, vehicle inspection, restricted-item control, and secondary-screening arrangements. The role ensures that all scanning and screening operations are risk-based, regulatorily compliant, operationally efficient, and aligned with QIC’s guest experience, workforce access, and city security objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic development, operational planning, rollout, and assurance of QIC’s scanning and screening capability across various deployments.
• Own the governance, management, and execution of restricted-item controls across permanent and temporary screening operations.
• Develop and implement risk-based screening uplift strategies for major events, VIP/VVIP activity, asset activations, and heightened threat conditions.
• Manage the scanning asset lifecycle, utilizing operational and maintenance data for replacement planning, preventative maintenance, and fleet health.
• Maintain operator authorisations, specialist training, refresher requirements, and equipment competence records.
• Provide operational input into procurement, design changes, and future scanning technology requirements.
• Produce readiness, performance, incident, restricted-item, and improvement reports.

Operational Leadership and Management

• Provide technical and operational leadership for vehicle X-ray scanning, mobile scanning, vehicle inspection, secondary search, and VACP operations.
• Plan and oversee walk-through metal detection, hand-held metal detection, baggage X-ray, bag search, personal search, and secondary-screening arrangements.
• Manage contractor performance against KPIs, SLAs, manpower plans, technical obligations, and readiness requirements.
• Raise, track, and close Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs), corrective actions, and repeated performance failures.
• Lead site inspections, readiness checks, audits, and operational reviews to verify deployment readiness and compliance.
• Identify operational, commercial, and capability gaps, agreeing corrective actions with stakeholders and supporting capability scaling.

Strategic Planning and Coordination

• Plan and coordinate cross-functional readiness across assets, city leadership, operational stakeholders, and delivery partners.
• Coordinate specialist security support requirements, including K9 capabilities, government interfaces, and technology teams.
• Ensure incidents, exercises, audits, and live deployments drive Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) updates and future planning improvements.
• Collaborate with City Operations Verticals, Event Operators, Asset Owners/Operators, and Delivery / Development teams.
• Align scanning operations with workforce access, vehicle access, guest flows, and asset operating requirements.
• Provide expert advice on scanning design, operational constraints, guest impact, and threat-based deployment requirements.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent recognized qualification in Security Management, Security and Risk Management, Aviation Security, Emergency Management Operations Management, or a related discipline.
• Extensive experience planning and leading vehicle and individual screening operations in complex, high-volume, geographically dispersed, or high-risk environments.
• Practical leadership experience with vehicle X-ray scanning, mobile scanning, vehicle inspection, secondary search, fixed VACP operations, and restricted-item controls.
• Experience planning and managing walk-through metal detection, hand-held metal detection, baggage X-ray, bag search, personal search, and secondary screening across permanent and temporary deployments.
• Experience in airports, border security, critical infrastructure, large public venues, giga-projects, government facilities, or national-security operating environments.

Required Skills and Expertise

• Strong experience managing specialist security contractors, including KPI and SLA performance, NCRs, corrective actions, audits, operational readiness, and value-for-money challenge.
• Proven ability to lead live operations during high-attendance periods, major events, VIP/VVIP activity, and elevated threat conditions.
• Demonstrated ability to operate within a complex stakeholder environment, balancing competing priorities and expectations to achieve strategic and operational outcomes.