Yep walking with an engineer to the Airbus.
I go through the screening and get ETD screening, hand luggage screening, full metal detectors, body scanning.
He is waiting in the flight deck when I get there after walking airside and up the aerobridge stairs.
When I worked for a smaller airline I'd give the caterers my lunch and water bottle for international flights and they'd take it and place it on my aeroplane so it wasn't confiscated through security.
Silly system we work in.....