Security Officer
Posted on September 5th, 2025
Edinburgh
£ per hour
Type of Job: Permanent
G4S are looking for a Security Officer to work at a busy corporate site with a high standard of security in Edinburgh where you will be required to carry out duties in a busy environment and carve out a career with the biggest name in security.
SIA license essential.
We are looking for security personnel who who are passionate about creating a safe and secure environment and demonstrate honesty and integrity all whilst delivering customer service to the highest level.
Position: Security Officer
Location: Edinburgh
Pay Rate: £ per hour
Hours: 36 hours per week
Shifts: Late shifts mainly finishing at 11pm, with flexibility to work later if required
Your Time at Work
Your duties will include:
- Clear understanding of delivering high class reception service
- Excellent communicator and good listener
- Greeting staff and visitors and ensuring they adhere to the required security protocols
- Access control and signing visitors in and out of site
- Well organised and conscientious
- Ability to work alone and as part of a team
- Excellent telephone manner and face to face client liaison skills
- Basic level of competence of Microsoft Packages inc: Outlook/Word/Excel
- Willingness to train and learn new tasks as required by the business in order to meet Client and role specific requirements
Our Perfect Worker
It is crucial to have great communication and customer service skills. All our admin is digital and paperless, so you'll need to be tech-savvy enough to use our digital devices.
Our perfect Security Officer will need to be aged 18 or over, a confident communicator who is a team player with the drive to always provide a friendly and professional service. Join G4S and you can also enjoy real career progression with a large international company - as the world's leading provider of security solutions, we offer loads of training and support. You'll be in safe hands from our induction and on-site training to regular reviews and welfare checks with our managers.
Key Information and Benefits
- weeks holiday per year (8 of these will be in lieu of bank holidays, worked or not worked)
- Workplace Pension Scheme
- Progression training and development opportunities
- Life assurance benefit
- Contributory Healthcare Scheme
- Eyecare vouchers
- Employee Discount Schemes
- Refer a friend scheme
- Free uniform provided
Job Ref: 1G4S (G522)
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About Staffline
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