Security Associate; 12 month contract; based at Warton; 37 hours a week; 23.05 per hour PAYE

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as part of a busy Security Team based at BAE Systems, Warton. This is a 12 month contract covering maternity leave. and is an administrative role within Security Operations working in a busy team of 6. The role holder will be a team player, with excellent communication skills and have some awareness of security processes and protocols.

Role description;
- Reporting to the Security Senior Professional, under supervision, execute operational, physical and personnel security responsibilities for Security work streams in order to protect BAE Systems, its people, infrastructure, information and assets, as well as the interests of its shareholders and customers, and to fulfil regulatory and legal obligations.
- Owning, updating and refining the electronic Programme Access Request database.
- Responsible for updating and refining the Security Clearance progress spreadsheet.
- Managing the International Visit Control Office (IVCO) lists

Core duties will involve;
- Accountable for Physical and Personnel Security of the International & Warton facilities, all the people, equipment and data in them in accordance with all applicable Government, customer contractual and business requirements.
- Provide support to the Programme Security Manager on Security matters relating to the business.
- Control and Protection of Classified material and hardware. Maintaining accurate records for receipt, transfer, loan, destruction and mustering of classified material.
- Providing Security Briefings and support the Induction process, ensuring that accurate records are maintained.
- Provide support for Local Visits, contractor & maintenance visits to secure facilities.
- Maintain and update plans that ensure compliance to Government and Company Security policies. Ensuring plans are fit for purpose and organisational changes are implemented.
- Assure the integrity of BAE employees working in the assigned business area by maintaining personnel security and access control processes and procedures. Including some security front of house duties.
- Provide security advice and guidance to internal and external stakeholders and make recommendations to improve security solutions for the work stream.
- Maintain effective relationships and coordination with key local functions and business representatives.
- Support the security culture by raising security awareness among employees and management in the local area and modelling behaviours that demonstrate company values.

Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications

- An awareness of MOD Security processes/procedures.
- Knowledge and skills required for the job can be acquired either through considerable on the job experience or a level of basic theoretical knowledge.
- Job requires an understanding of how own tasks and duties impact others in the team and the overall area.
- Job requires an understanding of how the team coordinates their efforts to achieve the overall objectives of the team.
- The job holder is required to understand the roles and responsibilities of all of their immediate team members to help them understand how working as a team helps them achieve overall team objectives.
- Requires a good understanding and knowledge of the area in which the role operates.
- An ability to understand when to escalate matters for senior input.
- Ensure procedures fully understood and role holder confident in solutionising from these procedures.

The job holder will have a good working knowledge of MS365 and Outlook.

Due to the nature of this role candidates will need to be able to obtain SC MOD clearance prior to starting work. This role is also working fully onsite Monday to Friday (37 hours a week).

Morson is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.

Administration; filing; e-filing; GDPR; secretarial; data entry; data input; Excel; Word; Outlook; Access; MS Office; booking system; business support; database management; diary management; minute taking; document control; security associate; security controller; vetting