Security Operations Manager

About the job

Job Title: Security Operations Manager

Location: Ashchurch, Tewkesbury

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76402

Lead Security Operations at the Heart of National Defence

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 Operations Manager at Tewkesbury, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

The role

As a Security Operations Manager, you'll lead the delivery of a high-performing security function at one of Babcock’s most secure operational facilities. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategic security operations, build trusted customer relationships and lead a dedicated team responsible for protecting critical facilities, people and assets. You'll work closely with senior stakeholders, customers and project teams, playing a vital role in supporting national security while developing your own leadership and security management career within a growing and innovative business.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Leading the delivery of physical, personnel and contract security operations across the site.
• Managing a team of security professionals, providing leadership, direction and operational oversight.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with strategic customers and key stakeholders.
• Supporting high-priority business and facilities projects by providing security expertise and guidance.
• Ensuring the site maintains the standards required to meet contractual, regulatory and government security obligations.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based at Ashchurch, Tewkesbury.

Essential experience of the Security Operations Manager

• Experience operating within a security, defence, government or similarly regulated environment.
• Experience building trusted relationships with strategic customers and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading and managing multidisciplinary teams in a fast-paced operational environment.
• Direct people management experience alongside leadership within a matrix organisation.
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of contract and business management principles.

Qualifications for the Security Operations Manager

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. Applicants must be a Sole UK National.

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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

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 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: 04/11/2026

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