Festival/Event SIA Licenced Security

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We are looking for SIA Event/Festival Security to join our expanding team at major events & festivals across the Midlands and UK wide for our summer season 2024.

Benefits of working for us:

• Plenty of shifts available at some of the UKs biggest Events & Festivals
• Flexibility to choose your own shifts and work around your existing commitments
• 24/7 access to our online scheduling system to plan your shifts
• A fantastic team/ company culture
• Company provided transport

Midlands Protection Services work on some of the UKs largest events/festivals. As a company we pride ourselves on delivering excellence in this field and do this by ensuring those that work for us give our customers and their customers the best possible experience.

People are at the heart of everything we do and that starts with those that work for us.

Duties whilst on shift:

• Checking a person’s suitability to enter an event/festival and refusing those that don’t meet the entry criteria
• Ticket validation, physical body and bag searches
• Controlling access points/ exit gates and site perimeter patrolling
• Responding & reporting to incidents as they occur, on occasion ejecting unsuitable individuals
• Supporting customers by utilising effective customer service skills
• Crowd control – directing foot traffic, queue management, maintaining order, reporting anti-social behaviour.
• Maintaining security by guarding property and/ or equipment

About you, what we require:

• A valid in-date SIA Door Supervisor licence
• Have strong verbal communication skills
• Excellent timekeeping
• An approachable manner with superb customer facing skills
• The ability to handle confrontational situations whilst remaining calm & professional at all times
• Smart & Presentable
• Confident
• Team Player

Important, please note:

All applicants will be screened in accordance with BS7858 standards. Security screening is a requirement of the post and applicants must provide a full checkable 5-year work/ school history. You must also hold a valid SIA licence.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Temporary contract, Freelance, Zero hours contract

Salary: £11.00-£13.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Discounted or free food
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Night shift
• Overtime
• Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

• Performance bonus

Experience:

• security: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• SIA Door Supervisor Licence (required)
• Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: In person