Head of Security

Babcock

Babcock is a leading provider of critical, complex engineering services which support national defence, save lives and protect communities.

Job Title: Head of Security
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF60496

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 Head of Security at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Head of Security, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be responsible for ensuring Babcock is effective in supporting and delivering defence outputs, achieving and maintaining security arrangements across the Defence Nuclear Enterprise (DNE).

Day-to-day, you’ll provide leadership, management and control in the planning, conduct and review of nuclear security plans, processes and procedures to deliver, test and provide assurance against the security strategy, the security statement and the security management arrangements.

• Lead security focused transformational programs/projects, managing the change landscape and supporting outcome realisation.
• Develop and undertake procedures for inspection, maintenance and testing of the security system in order to provide confidence that security system delivery is being effectively managed and the ability to deliver the required security effect is achieved.
• Develop and improve the management of security delivery during normal operations, incidents and emergencies, producing a logical and hierarchical set of documents that describe in detail the processes for managing documentation, operations, and ensuring effective communication within nuclear security.
• Develop and improve the security arrangements, ensuring that documentation, guides, templates, process instructions and plans are under appropriate configuration control.
• Working with others including nuclear safety, lead on security baseline management, competence management, assurance processes and independently assessed exercises and tests.

This role is full time 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Head of Security

• An accomplished leader with experience in leading large diverse teams to deliver complex projects and implement change through continuous improvement.
• Proven experience as a security manager or in another similar role, with experience in security risk analysis and management, including defining and developing organisational governance and oversight arrangements is essential.
• Great external/internal stakeholder management to influence and gain agreement from all parties where objectives may compete to maintain alignment.
• Experience in the nuclear industry is certainly helpful, it is not essential, you may have worked in another highly regulated/high hazard/high-risk industry such as defence, energy or aviation or within the wider security arena.
• Experience of successfully managing complex portfolios within a highly regulated environment.

Qualifications for the Head of Security

• Membership of a professional body such as the Register of Chartered Security Professional, the Security Institute or the Institute of Leadership and Management.
• Relevant ISO 27001 qualifications or equivalent with experience - Desirable.
• Certified Nuclear Security Professional - Desirable.

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.

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
• 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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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.