Job Title: Security Guarding Lead
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £33, - £42, Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
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:
1. Lead, develop and manage a team of security professionals and contractors
2. Manage security resources and equipment to ensure operational effectiveness
3. Support on-call requirements to maintain minimum security staffing levels
4. Develop and improve security procedures, safe working practices and operational guidance
5. 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
6. Demonstrating strong experience leading and developing teams, ideally within a security environment
7. Delivering excellent customer service and communicating effectively across all organisational levels
8. Providing workplace coaching, training, and performance support
9. Handling conflict and applying effective de-escalation techniques
10. Applying sound knowledge of security best practice, systems, and relevant legislation
Qualifications for the Security Guarding Lead
11. Level 3 qualification (or higher) in Leadership, Management, Security, Customer Service or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
12. IOSH Managing Safely (or equivalent)
13. Formal security training, ideally including National Protective Security Authority courses
14. Full UK Driving Licence
15. 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.
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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