Nikhil Francis
Assistant Manager - Corporate Security
Koikkara House, C.P Nagar 54, Edappally North PO,Ernakulam
Summary
A self-motivated corporate Security and Safety professional with more than 6 years’ expertise in crisis and incident management, ISO, OHSAS audit, Projects, Corporate security, Health and safety, Environmental safety, risk and compliance, electronic security and emergency management.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
4
4
Languages
Work History
Assistant Manager
Barclays Global Services
Chennai
12.2018 - Current
- Single point of contact for the implementation of the security controls as per the security standards and policies
- Conducting internal audit in view to the ISO and OHSAS standards
- Managing the ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and OHSAS 18001 audits
- Conducting the SRA audit, security risk assessment proposals and recommendation and initiate the necessary action for closure in case of any deviation.
- Single point of contact to handle the monthly invoice pertaining to the site
- Managing the Physical Security and the Security Control Room staff
- Vital role in the Chief Security Officer team in the event of audits and incidents
- Handling the department budget based on the various proposals for CAPEX and OPEX requirements
- Recruitment of new staffs
- Representing for the weekly and monthly reviews in the country level calls
- Handling various incidents pertaining to security and initiating the appropriate corrective and preventive actions.
- Handling the expansion projects in coordination with vendor relating to e-security and safety requirements.
- Single point of contact for various client and statutory audits. Handling various client visits and meeting and brief them on the security and safety requirements
- Providing various training to the stakeholders and the internal team by conducting the town hall session.
- Handling annual shutdown activity and ensure security and safety protocols are met
- Preparing monthly team roaster
- Have good coordination with vendor and landlord to have safe and secured environment for the site
- Ensuring incompliance with the statutory requirements and BGV
Safety and Security Officer
G4S Facilities
Thiruvananthapuram
05.2018 - 12.2018
- Facilitating the implementation of the Integrated Environment and Occupational Health & Safety, Management Systems as per ISO 14001:2004 & OHSAS18001:2007
- Conducting the hazard and risk assessment/aspect and impact to the sites and applying the appropriate controls to mitigate those risk as well as impact before and after any event/match and also ensure meeting of statutory compliance in coordination with fire and police department
- Acted as a safety in-charge for the India vs West Indies ODI match, 2018
- Reviewing the work permits for the event, expansion and maintenance projects
- Review of all the applicable legal and statutory requirement and taking the appropriate action in case of any deviations
- Preparing and conducting the monthly review of the site safety score cards and develop the ratings.
- Leading the health and safety committee meeting on weekly basis including all the stakeholders to highlights the health and safety related incidents, near miss, unsafe condition etc
- Doing the investigation on various safety incidents to understand the root cause and taking the appropriate corrective as well as preventive action
- Providing various safety training to the various stakeholders to inculcate the safety culture in the organization
- Created and managed audit process utilizing third party auditors as well internal audit process & handled correction process internally and acted as a representative during outside party audits
- Providing the information to the leadership team to assist in terms of the emergency situations
- Conducting the scenario based drill for the facility
- Conducting tool box section on daily basis to the contractors
Senior Specialist
Sutherland Global Services
Ernakulam
04.2015 - 06.2017
- Responsible for the implementation of the security and safety controls within Kerala, review of company security and safety equipment standards and compliance adherence for the new and existing clients and global security and safety standards for projects and audits.
- Acting as a location safety officer for the health and safety management team and leading health and safety committee meetings across India facilities (19 Sites).
- Preparation of security and Safety schematics for new sites/projects /expansion and coordination /monitoring till project completion across Kerala region.
- Leading the department management MIS, reports and returns including security and safety site scorecards, employee surveys and risk assessment ratings for Kerala.
- Conducting internal audits based on client SOW for the Department during various client and external agency audits .Conducting the security and safety client compliances audits for critical accounts and ensuring the adherence to any updated requirement within the agreed timelines.
- Implementation and management of the information security management system and Quality management system as per the ISO standards.
- Conducting risk and vulnerability assessment of the sites and applying the appropriate controls to mitigate those risk as well as impact.
- Projection and management of CAPEX and OPEX budgets as per the site requirements
- Recruitment of new staffs for the team
- Providing the update to the Leadership team on various alerts, incident and events across Kerala by monitoring various security related events.
- Preparing and conducting quarterly reviews of site security and safety scorecards and risk assessment ratings for all sites with analysis on the areas of improvement for Kerala region. Review and submission of monthly/quarterly/half yearly/yearly department management reports capturing incidents, violations equipment downtime, audits, projects, budgets, training, etc.
- Review meetings with service providers and internal stakeholders to ensure compliance in line with the SLAs within the contracts.
- Handling the annual shutdown activity for multiple sites at Kerala
- Supporting the Department with critical investigations / frauds/ accidents for identifying the root cause to eliminate/mitigate and preparing the incident reports along with the recommendations.
- Providing the training to the New Hire orientation training to the new employees, conducting the security and safety session to the employees via town halls, floor briefing sessions etc. on security and safety.
- Conducting the scenario based drill for the facility and handling the BCP (Business continuity protocol) calls.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
HKBK College of Engineering
Bangalore 05.2009 - 03.2014
Diploma - Fire Prevention And Safety Technology
TUV Reinhard
Ernakulam 09.2014 - 03.2015
Skills
Crisis and Risk Management
Incident Management
ISO and OHSAS Management
Access Control and CCTV
Alarm Monitoring
Corporate Security
Team Management
Safety and Security Managements
Projects
Budgets
Certification
NEBOSH
Timeline
Assistant Manager
Barclays Global Services
12.2018 - Current
Safety and Security Officer
G4S Facilities
05.2018 - 12.2018
NEBOSH
04-2018
IOSH
04-2018
Senior Specialist
Sutherland Global Services
04.2015 - 06.2017
Diploma - Fire Prevention And Safety Technology
TUV Reinhard
09.2014 - 03.2015
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
HKBK College of Engineering
05.2009 - 03.2014