Security Administrator

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 Administrator at our Ashton Vale, Bristol site.

The Role

As a Security Administrator, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. In this role you will be key in providing professional security support to all business functions across Mission Systems and will collaborate on wider security matters across Babcock Group. Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for the effective delivery of all day-to-day business security related matters ensuring key support functions are delivered in a smart, flexible and holistic manner to ensure the business continues to operate safely and securely.

• First point of contact for all new hire candidates, delivering all aspects of Security onboarding.
• Ensuring that all security requirements are met by the business and are compliant with Babcock Policy and other internal requirements as well as all external contractual obligations, legal requirements and policy frameworks.
• Acting as the key point of contact to both internal and external stakeholders to enable an open and transparent working relationship focused on resolving issues as they arise.
• Responsibility for regulating, monitoring and reporting on the secure operating processes of all electronic security systems.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Ashton Vale, Bristol. However, this can be flexible where the business allows to work from home (typically one day a week).

Essential experience of the Security Administrator:

• Demonstrable experience of working in an administrative role.
• A baseline working knowledge of relevant Government Security Standards.
• Possess well developed IT skills.
• Good practical understanding of the general requirements necessary to maintain compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
• Demonstration of good communication skills both verbal and written.

Qualifications for the Security Administrator:

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 a SOLE UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. However, the successful candidate will be eligible to start on Standard (BPSS) security clearance. 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:

• 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: 20/02/2026