Incident Responder

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Ledsham; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension & life assurance

Digital GP & health checks

Shopping portal

Professional fees paid

Reservist leave

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock’s Incident Responder role is based at Capenhurst near Chester, with a 4 on, 4 off, 42-hour week. You’ll patrol, manage access, and coordinate with emergency services to protect people and assets.

The role emphasises emergency response, security control, and reporting, with clear progression and a strong public-safety mission within a national security context.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in Military, Police, Fire Service or Security
• Good health and fitness
• Flexibility to adapt to normal and emergency shift patterns
• Conflict management and incident response experience
• Strong report writing and intelligence handling skills

Responsibilities

• Conducting foot and vehicle patrols, perimeter checks, and building inspections
• Supporting emergency response, including initial command duties and coordination with emergency services
• Maintaining fitness, completing training exercises, and upholding safety and compliance standards
• Managing access control, vehicle searches, and key registers at the main gate
• Operating control room systems, monitoring CCTV, and responding to emergency calls

Skills

Patrols

Emergency response

Reporting

Intelligence handling

Driving licence

Education

UK Driving Licence

SIA licence desirable

Job description

Select how often (in days) to receive an alert:

Location: Chester, GB, CH1 6ER

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Incident Responder

Location: Capenhurst, Cheshire

Compensation: £38,641.05 rising to £42,223 after 6-month probation + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72089

Be the First Line of Defence in a Role That Truly Matters

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Incident Responder at Capenhurst, near Chester, Cheshire.

The role

As an Incident Responder, you’ll be at the forefront of protecting people, assets and operations. This is a dynamic and high-impact role where your actions directly contribute to national security and public safety. You’ll respond to medical, fire and safety incidents, manage site security, and ensure operational integrity through proactive patrols and emergency response.

It’s a career that builds resilience, sharpens leadership, and offers real purpose.

Day-to-day you’ll be:

• Conducting foot and vehicle patrols, perimeter checks, and building inspections


• Supporting emergency response, including initial command duties and coordination with emergency services


• Maintaining fitness, completing training exercises, and upholding safety and compliance standards


• Managing access control, vehicle searches, and key registers at the main gate


• Operating control room systems, monitoring CCTV, and responding to emergency calls

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.

The role is based onsite at Capenhurst, and the set working times are 4 on 4 off (2 days, 2 nights – 12-hour shifts), totalling 42 hours per week.

Essential experience of the Incident Responder

• Previous experience in Military, Police, Fire Service or Security


• Good standard of health and fitness


• Flexibility to adapt to normal and emergency shift patterns


• Conflict management and incident response experience


• Strong report writing and intelligence handling skills

Qualifications for the Incident Responder

• Full UK Driving Licence


• Security Industry Authority Accredited (SIA) is desirable

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

• 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 [e-mail] 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.