Job Title: Project Security Officer
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £44, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Protect what matters most on nationally significant defence programmes
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 Project Security Officer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Project Security Officer, you’ll be responsible for ensuring that protective security is embedded, coordinated and assured across major defence infrastructure projects. Acting as the focal point for project security, you’ll provide leadership and oversight across personnel, physical, information and cyber security domains.
Day-to-day, you’ll help project teams interpret and apply security requirements proportionately, support informed risk‑based decision‑making, and ensure statutory, regulatory and contractual obligations are met. In return, you’ll gain exposure to complex, high‑profile programmes and develop a deep understanding of security across the full project lifecycle, strengthening your long‑term career in defence and security.
1. Coordinating protective security across personnel, physical, information and cyber security domains
2. Ensuring compliance with MOD, contractual and corporate security policies and standards
3. Supporting project teams with secure access arrangements for people, assets and information
4. Maintaining security documentation, registers and supporting risk‑based decision‑making
5. Promoting a positive security culture through engagement, guidance and awareness activity
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Project Security Officer
6. Experience working in a security‑focused role within the UK Defence industry
7. Understanding of personnel, physical, information and cyber security principles
8. Experience working with MOD security documentation such as DEFSTAN, DEFCON and ISNs
9. Knowledge of security risk management within project or operational environments
10. Membership of a professional security body would be advantageous
Qualifications for the Project Security Officer
11. Completion of a recognised Security Controller or equivalent security training (desirable)
12. A Level 5 qualification in Security Risk Management or similar would be advantageous
13. Relevant professional experience may be considered in place of formal qualifications
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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 Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.
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