Security Guarding Lead in Plymouth

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.

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.
• ‘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: 12/06/2026