Security Manager

Nuclear Inst; Rosyth, Dunfermline; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP & health check

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for Reservists

Holiday Trading program

Be Kind Day

Disability confident employer – adjust

Flexible working options available

Job summary

Babcock in Rosyth, Scotland, is seeking a Security Manager to safeguard one of the UK's critical defence and marine engineering environments. You will lead physical security, information management and compliance with government requirements, advising senior leaders and shaping security operations across the site.

This high-profile role requires at least five years in security leadership, experience with government standards, and the ability to work with regulated contracts.

Qualifications

• Experience working with Government security standards.
• Experience operating within a highly regulated environment subject to legislation and compliance requirements.
• A minimum of five years' experience within a relevant security management or security leadership role.
• Experience managing physical security operations, personnel or contracted security services.
• Experience interpreting and implementing security policies within defence, government or similarly regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Leading all aspects of physical security across the Rosyth Business Park site.
• Advising management teams on the interpretation and implementation of security requirements for classified contracts.
• Managing systems and processes that protect classified documents, materials and sensitive information.
• Overseeing the Security and Emergency Response Team to ensure an effective and efficient security service.
• Coordinating visitor management services and site-wide security activities while maintaining compliance with government standards.

Skills

Security leadership

Gov't security standards

Regulated environment

Physical security ops

Security policies compliance

Education

Degree-level qualification in Physical Security

Job description

Job Title: Security Manager

Location: Rosyth, Fife

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76290

Lead security excellence at the heart of a critical defence infrastructure programme.

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 at Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife.

The role

As a Security Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in safeguarding one of the UK's most important defence and marine engineering environments. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, you'll ensure that physical security, classified information management and compliance with government security requirements are effectively managed across the site.

This is a high-profile leadership role where your expertise will directly support national security, protect critical infrastructure and enable the successful delivery of defence programmes. You'll work alongside stakeholders at all levels, influence strategic decision-making and lead security operations that make a real difference. In return, you'll have the opportunity to further develop your career within a global organisation committed to investing in its people and creating meaning careers.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Leading all aspects of physical security across the Rosyth Business Park site.
• Advising management teams on the interpretation and implementation of security requirements for classified contracts.
• Managing systems and processes that protect classified documents, materials and sensitive information.
• Overseeing the Security and Emergency Response Team to ensure an effective and efficient security service.
• Coordinating visitor management services and site-wide security activities while maintaining compliance with government standards.

This is a full time role that is based onsite at Rosyth. You’ll work Monday to Friday with a half day on Friday.

Essential experience of the Security Manager:

• Previous experience working with Government security standards.
• Previous experience operating within a highly regulated environment subject to legislation and compliance requirements.
• A minimum of five years' experience within a relevant security management or security leadership role.
• Experience managing physical security operations, personnel or contracted security services.
• Experience interpreting and implementing security policies within defence, government or similarly regulated industries.

Qualifications for the Security Manager:

• Appropriate degree-level qualification in Physical Security.

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 29,000 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 [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.

Closing date: 09/10/2026

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