Job Title: Security Specialist
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56871
At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Security Specialist at our Ashton House site.
The role
As a Security Specialist, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This is a challenging role where you will be responsible for providing a high level of professional security support to a focused part of the Missions Systems business unit.
Day-to-day, you'll support the delivery of all security requirements, ensuring they are compliant with our policy and other internal requirements as well as all external contractual obligations and legal requirements.
- Responsible for authoring key security documentation, including plans, policy and processes to ensure they meet the requirements of the business and are compliant with the customers expectations
- Provide support and ensure compliance to prime contract obligations in accordance with delegated authority approval and security process requirements
- Work collaboratively with the project team to provide timely support and accurate interpretations of security conditions associated with contracting authority security requirements. In addition, you'll support Commercial, Supply Chain and Bid work activities ensuring such security conditions are properly flowed down and accurately implemented
This position may involve occasional travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites.
This role is full time, 37-hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3-4 days in the office/onsite and 1-2 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Security Specialist
- A thorough working knowledge of all aspects of the Security Policy Framework / GOV S007as well as JSP 440
- Well developed IT skills
- Strong communication/interpersonal skills
- Ability to develop and maintain relationships at all levels
- Confident and self-motivated individual displaying effective entrepreneurial development techniques, whilst acting as a key part of the team
Qualifications for the Security Specialist
- Qualified to Degree level or equivalent in a related subject
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 29/04/2024
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