Security Vetting Coordinator

Job Title:                     Security Vetting Coordinator

Location:                     Devonport, Plymouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF73633

Help Protect What Matters Most

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Security Vetting Coordinator at our Devonport, near Plymouth site.

The role

As a Security Vetting Coordinator, you will play a vital role in safeguarding our people, projects, and national security commitments. You will deliver accurate and compliant security vetting processes, ensuring colleagues and contractors can safely access the environments where critical defence and engineering work takes place.

Day-to-day, you will be responsible for:

• Processing Baseline Personnel Security Standard checks and national security clearances accurately and efficiently
• Managing vetting applications and renewals in line with government standards and company policies
• Liaising with internal teams and external stakeholders to resolve queries and ensure timely onboarding
• Maintaining secure and accurate records while handling sensitive information in line with data protection requirements
• Supporting continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance vetting processes

This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week, based at Devonport Royal Dockyard.  Hybrid working arrangements with two/three days based on-site.

Essential experience of the Security Vetting Coordinator:

• Demonstrating strong administrative and organisational skills with clear communication
• Using Microsoft Office tools, including Excel and Word, with confidence
• Providing excellent customer service in a fast-paced environment
• Applying high levels of accuracy and attention to detail
• Understanding data protection principles and handling sensitive information responsibly

Qualifications for the Security Vetting Coordinator:

• We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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. 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 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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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

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: 14/06/2026

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