Job Title: Security Officer
Location: Ashchurch, Tewkesbury
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70164
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 Officer at our Ashchurch site.
The role
As a Security Officer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. As a Security Officer, you’ll join a growing business unit within Mission Systems to help provide around the clock security cover at our Tewkesbury site.
- Securing premises with regular patrolling of property; monitoring surveillance equipment; inspecting buildings, equipment, and access points; permitting entry if required
- Obtaining help by sounding alarms including marshalling
- Preventing losses and damage by reporting irregularities, informing staff and visitors of policy and procedures; deterring trespassers
- Compiling reports by recording observations, information, incidents, and surveillance activities
- Ensuring the security, safety and well-being of all personnel, visitors, and the premises
- Maintaining environment by monitoring and setting building and equipment controls
This role is full time, 42 hours per week and is based on site at Ashchurch working a shift pattern; 4 working days, 4 days off, 4 working nights, 4 days off.
Essential experience of the Security Officer
- Ideally you will have previous security experience, but this is not essential.
Qualifications for the Security Officer
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 able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) 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 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. 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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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: 16/12/2025
