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Security Guarding Lead

Babcock International -
Plymouth

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Job details

Permanent | Full-time
£33,900 - £42,400 a year
6 days ago

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension
Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

Driving Licence
Customer service
Continuous improvement
SIA
Leadership

Full job description

Security Guarding Lead

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL2 2BG

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Security Guarding Lead

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £33,900 - £42,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73816

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 Guarding Lead at our Plymouth, Devon site.

The role

As a Security Guarding Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a vital role in protecting one of the United Kingdom’s most important defence sites. Leading a dedicated security team, you’ll help deliver safe, secure, and effective operations that support national security and critical infrastructure.

This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of security operations in a complex environment. You’ll influence best practice, develop high-performing teams, and contribute to continuous improvement—while building your own leadership skills in a dynamic defence, aerospace, and engineering environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

Lead, develop and manage a team of security professionals and contractors
Manage security resources and equipment to ensure operational effectiveness
Support on-call requirements to maintain minimum security staffing levels
Develop and improve security procedures, safe working practices and operational guidance
Promote a strong security culture by role modelling best practice and company values

This is a full-time role working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based on site at Devonport Dockyard.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential experience of the Security Guarding Lead

Demonstrating strong experience leading and developing teams, ideally within a security environment
Delivering excellent customer service and communicating effectively across all organisational levels
Providing workplace coaching, training, and performance support
Handling conflict and applying effective de-escalation techniques
Applying sound knowledge of security best practice, systems, and relevant legislation

Qualifications for the Security Guarding Lead

Level 3 qualification (or higher) in Leadership, Management, Security, Customer Service or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
IOSH Managing Safely (or equivalent)
Formal security training, ideally including National Protective Security Authority courses
Full UK Driving Licence
Frontline Security Industry Authority Security Officer and/or CCTV Operator licence

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Standard (BPSS) 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 [email protected] 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: 12/06/2026

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