Business Support Officer in Chester

As a Business Support Officer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a key role in maintaining the safety, security and smooth operation of a highly regulated nuclear site. This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to become the first point of contact for staff, contractors and visitors, ensuring that everyone entering the site does so safely, securely and in line with strict procedures. You will help to keep people safe, support emergency response arrangements and contribute to essential operational activities. It is a role with real purpose where your actions directly support national security and site resilience.

Day to day you’ll be required to:

• Manage visitor and contractor bookings, complete access checks and confirm that all individuals meet site security and induction requirements
• Monitor access points, support CCTV activities and challenge unauthorised access
• Act as a trained First Aider and Fire Marshal, supporting emergency response when required
• Carry out security walkabouts, building checks and facilities tasks while keeping accurate records and reports
• Provide reception, meet and greet and general administrative support across Urenco buildings

The starting salary for this role is £31,500.00, increasing to £32,945.55 upon successful completion of training to achieve the required skill level, sign off probation and obtain SC vetting. This role is full time, 42 hours per week and is based on site at Capenhurst. The working hours cover 5 days a week, Monday to Friday. Flexibility is required around start and finish times to ensure we meet the customers’ demands. Standard hours of work are 0800 to 1630, however timings may change to facilitate training during Site silent hours.

Essential experience

• Experience in an administrative or business support role
• Experience in a reception, front of house or other customer facing environment
• Experience managing visitors, contractors or access control processes
• Ability to follow procedures accurately in a regulated environment
• Strong communication and organisational skills

Qualifications

• First Aid at Work certification or willingness to obtain
• Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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.

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.
• ‘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

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: 12/02/2026