Job Specifications
Job Title: Security Manager
Location: Rotational – 6 weeks Europe / 2 weeks off
Compensation: Up to £60,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71673
Protect our people. Support international operations. Make a global impact.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Security Manager, supporting our overseas rotational programme.
The role
As a Security Manager, you’ll play a vital role in safeguarding Babcock personnel, contractors and country‑based staff while they work overseas. Working closely with the Principal Security Specialist and Contract Manager, you’ll ensure the right protective measures are in place and that operational sites remain safe, compliant and secure.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
Ensuring effective security measures are implemented and maintained across your main site and any additional sites you may support.
Responding to security‑related issues and working proactively to keep personnel safe.
Providing professional, high‑quality security support, adapting flexibly to changing operational needs.
Assisting with site security administration, documentation and incident reporting.
Supporting colleagues, covering tasks as needed, and responding appropriately to emergencies.
This is a full time, permanent role delivered on a 6-week European deployment / 2-week off-rotation basis.
Essential experience of the Security Manager:
Strong administrative and IT skills, including confidence using Teams, SharePoint, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
A proactive and calm approach to managing security situations.
Strong people skills and a customer‑focused mindset.
A genuine interest in developing security experience within defence‑related environments.
Qualifications for the Security Manager:
Full, valid UK driving licence.
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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .
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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
‘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.
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: 26/02/2026
About the Company
Babcock is an international defence company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to additional markets.
Our Purpose, to create a safe and secure world, together, defines our strategy. We support and enhance our customers’ defence and security capabilities and critical assets through a range of product and service solutions. We meet our customers’ requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.
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