Job title: Security Manager
Company: Accor
Job description: Company Description
A luxury five-star hotel located in Jumeirah Beach Residence, Sofitel Dubai Jumeirah Beach opens directly onto Dubai’s most popular recreation promenade The Walk as well as the new beachfront low-rise leisure and retail destination The Beach.
Luxury stays and culinary excellence are the hotel’s cornerstones. All 444 rooms and suites overlook the azure waters of the Arabian Gulf and Ain Dubai. Guests can indulge in exquisite international flavours at A.O.C International Buffet and Plantation Brasserie, Bar and Terrace as well as Infini Pool Lounge and Café Concierge.
Job Description
Administration
- Prepares the daily schedule requirements and to issue post-patrol assignments to Security Officers for the duration of their shifts.
- Ensure maintained legible and accurate records of all control centre documents to include General Security Log, Key Control, Lost and Found and Visitor Passes.
- Ensure rosters are posted and timesheets are submitted on time.
Financial and Revenue Responsibilities
- To ensure that the department operational budget is strictly adhered to, all costs are controlled and expenditures are approved.
Training and Human Resources
- To complete the annual performance appraisal forms, provided by the HR department, for all employees under his/her responsibility, and to deliver them to the Director of Operations for reviewing.
- To assist in building an efficient team of employees by taking active interest in their welfare, safety and development. Ensuring and encouraging them to maintain good relationships with their colleagues and all other departments.
- Ensure wherever possible that employees are provided with a work place free of discrimination, harassment and victimisation.
- Treat complaints of harassment and discrimination promptly and confidentially.
- Treat customers and colleagues from all cultural groups with respect and sensitivity.
- Identify and deal with issues which may cause cross cultural conflict or misunderstanding.
Guest Service Responsibilities
- To review scheduled functions, group, or VIP arrivals and special events and to discuss special instructions with relevant departments.
Security Responsibilities
- Supervise all aspects of key distribution and control according to policies and procedures of the hotel and to report any discrepancy immediately to superiors.
- To continuously maintain and service all equipment related, or assigned, to the department, as specified in equipment manuals.
- To ensure that all hotel vehicles are properly maintained. To control the car log books, distribution of car keys, damages and kilometres driven per day.
- To be flexible with work hours, regardless of time, during day, or night, in order to personally facilitate security arrangements of cases that require special treatment and handling.
- To liaise with local authorities in order to identify activities that may affect the operation of the hotel such as seasonal events, current community crime trends, political activism and other, and to share any such concerns with superiors.
- To provide access to high-risk areas when required, exercise vigilance for the protection of assets and to secure the area when access is no longer required.
- To report guest complaints or problems to superiors if no immediate solution can be found and assure follow up with guests.
- To control access to crime/natural disaster scenes in order to preserve evidence while awaiting the arrival of authorities.
- To attend to reports and to follow-up on all reported guest disturbances, or alleged theft incidents ensuring that the established policies and procedures are adhered to. To conduct special investigation on high profile security matters and to prepare reports for managements review.
- To supervise the maintenance of the security log entries and to track all security officer patrol reports and subsequent security activities.
- Oversee the intervention of all guest room safes and to maintain a logbook where all occurrences are recorded.
- To review all occurrence reports prepared by security officers ensuring that they have complete, relevant and accurate information and to follow up.
- To be fully involved in the fire safety protection program in collaboration with the Engineering department, and all other concerned departments, as per hotel policy.
- To ensure that all new staff members are briefed and / or trained in Fire Prevention / Fire Fighting Procedures relevant to their position.
- To schedule quarterly fire evacuation drills, on collaboration with the HR, engineering and all other hotel departments.
- Execute employee bag/parcel inspections, as directed by the hotel policy.
- To control and ensure that the arrival and departure of employee at the back entrance of the hotel is done in a orderly and secure manner.
- To conduct physical spot-check on employee’s transportation and verifying the vehicle’s general condition to ensure employees safety.
- To oversee all security aspect linked with the employee housing and its facilities.
Miscellaneous
- To ensure that all employees report for duty punctually, wearing the correct uniform/attire and nametag, at all times. To ensure they maintain a high standard of personal appearance and hygiene and adhere to the hotel and department appearance standards.
- To supervise the employees within the department, ensuring that the correct standards and methods of service are maintained as stated in the Hotel and Department Operations Manual.
- To ensure that all the employees read the hotel’s Employee Handbook and have an understanding of and adhere to the hotel’s rules and regulations and in particular, the policies and procedures relating to Fire, Hygiene, Health and Safety.
- To be flexible and extend the job duties in order to carry out any other reasonable duties and responsibilities within the job capability as assigned, including redeployment to alternative departments / areas, if required, to meet business demands and guest service needs.
- To attend training and meetings, as and when required.
- To conduct and/or contribute to regular Departmental Communication Meetings.
- To undertake the duties of Duty Manager, as dictated by the Hotel’s Duty Managers Roster (If applicable).
- All ambassadors are required to comply with every reasonable request from their hierarchical supervisor(s) within an amount of time that it takes to comply under normal circumstances.
- All ambassadors may be assigned to other duties in the hotel as and when required by business levels.
GENERAL DUTIES:
Health and Safety
- Ensure that all potential and real Hazards are reported immediately and rectified
- Be fully conversant with all departmental Fire, Emergency and Bomb procedures
- Ensure that all emergency procedures are rehearsed, implemented and enforced to provide for the security and safety of guests and employees
- Ensure the safety of the persons and the property of all within the premises by fairly applying Hotel Regulations by strict adherence to existing laws, statutes etc.
- Ensure all staff within the department work in a manner which is safe and unlikely to give risk of harm or injury to selves or others
- Use safe manual handling techniques and practise safe work habits following Accor Health, Safety and Environment policies, maintain procedures to minimise our impact on the environment and prevent pollution.
Confidentiality
- Ensure confidentiality and secure storage of all intellectual property and data bases, both hard copy and electronic. Adhere to Accor Internet and Email policy
- Ensure Hotel, Customer and Staff information or transactions are kept confidential during or after employment with the company.
To be fully conversant with:
- Hotel fire procedures
- Hotel security procedures
- Hotel Health and Safety policy and procedures
- Hotel Facilities and attractions
- Hotel standards of operation and departmental procedures
- Sofitel Keys of Luxury and Appearance guidelines
- Sofitel “BE Magnifique” vision and its corresponding strategies
- Methods of accepted payment of the company
- Short and long term company marketing promotions
Expected salary:
Location: Dubai
Job date: Fri, 26 May 2023 01:48:33 GMT
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