Project Security Officer

Job Title:                     Project Security Officer

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:           £44,600 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF73113

Protect what matters most on nationally significant defence programmes

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 Project Security Officer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Project Security Officer, you’ll be responsible for ensuring that protective security is embedded, coordinated and assured across major defence infrastructure projects. Acting as the focal point for project security, you’ll provide leadership and oversight across personnel, physical, information and cyber security domains.

Day-to-day, you’ll help project teams interpret and apply security requirements proportionately, support informed risk‑based decision‑making, and ensure statutory, regulatory and contractual obligations are met. In return, you’ll gain exposure to complex, high‑profile programmes and develop a deep understanding of security across the full project lifecycle, strengthening your long‑term career in defence and security.

• Coordinating protective security across personnel, physical, information and cyber security domains
• Ensuring compliance with MOD, contractual and corporate security policies and standards
• Supporting project teams with secure access arrangements for people, assets and information
• Maintaining security documentation, registers and supporting risk‑based decision‑making
• Promoting a positive security culture through engagement, guidance and awareness activity

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

Essential experience of the Project Security Officer

• Experience working in a security‑focused role within the UK Defence industry
• Understanding of personnel, physical, information and cyber security principles
• Experience working with MOD security documentation such as DEFSTAN, DEFCON and ISNs
• Knowledge of security risk management within project or operational environments
• Membership of a professional security body would be advantageous

Qualifications for the Project Security Officer

• Completion of a recognised Security Controller or equivalent security training (desirable)
• A Level 5 qualification in Security Risk Management or similar would be advantageous
• Relevant professional experience may be considered in place of formal qualifications

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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.

Closing date: 04/05/2026

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