Security Risk and Compliance Lead in Bristol

Location: Bristol, GB, BS11 0YA

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72171

Bring Your Commercial Skills to Projects That Help Create A Safer World

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 Risk and Compliance Lead at our Stoke Gifford, Bristol site.

The role

As a Security Risk and Compliance Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a vital, high‑profile part in strengthening the security posture of a major national defence programme. Working in an exciting, influential role, you’ll help shape how security risks are identified, assessed, and managed across a complex, high‑visibility environment. Day-to-day, you’ll shape how risks are identified, assessed, and mitigated across a high‑visibility environment directly contributing to the safety, resilience, and operational readiness of the organisation.

• Assess, record, report and action risks across Personnel Security and Nuclear Operations.
• Establish and maintain policies, processes and capabilities to manage risks relating to people, information, services and assets.
• Manage reporting platforms to investigate security breaches and recommend corrective actions.
• Develop and deliver training to enhance security culture and awareness across the function.
• Provide continuity and resilience across the security team, supporting workstreams and colleagues.

You’ll work 35 hours per week, based at our Babcock Technology Centre in Stoke Gifford Bristol. Travel to other Babcock and customer sites will be expected.

Essential experience of the Security Risk and Compliance Lead:

• Experience working in a security role within a Defence, List N or FSC environment.
• Knowledge of UK security vetting, government classifications, secure information handling and IT systems.
• Strong attention to detail with excellent communication skills.
• Flexible, adaptable, and collaborative, with strong customer‑service focus.
• Skilled in time management, workload organisation and use of digital tools/technology.

Qualifications for the Security Risk and Compliance Lead:

• English GCSE (C or above) or NVQ equivalent.
• Security Risk Management qualification or equivalent experience.

Security Clearance: The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance. There may also be a requirement to achieve Developed Vetting (DV) clearance once in post. 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:

• 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.
• ‘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.