Air Site Security and Operations Lead
// Role Summary
Lead site security operations across BAE Systems' Air UK and International estates, ensuring compliance and operational viability. You will act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in security, conducting risk assessments and advising on robust security strategies.
// Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate day-to-day site security operations and enable security teams.
- Support the implementation of security strategies, policies, and processes.
- Conduct risk assessments and advise on security measures for people and assets.
- Contribute to security compliance and business continuity planning.
- Develop security culture through awareness and role modelling desired behaviours.
- Requires monthly UK travel and occasional overseas travel.
// Role Specification
Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.
Working to the Senior Manager, Operations, you will support the coordination of day-to-day site security operations across Air’s UK and International estates. This involves enabling a team of Site Security Managers/Security Controllers to deliver consistent and effective security operations, ensuring Air remains compliant, secure, and operationally viable.
Core Duties:
- Support the implementation of security strategies, policies, and processes to drive coordination and collaboration across all of Air’s UK estate in line with security strategy and direct the implementation of security responsibilities.
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), contributing to and advising on ensuring secure operations across Air sites.
- Conduct risk assessments of security measures and operations to protect the business’ people and critical assets, providing timely advice to enable well-informed business decisions.
- Contribute to ensuring security compliance and an assurance framework for the assigned workstream(s).
- Support business continuity and crisis management planning and testing.
- Maintain and support a network of key internal stakeholders with relevant key functions and business representatives.
- Support the Senior Manager Operations to develop the security culture by raising security awareness among employees and management, and role modelling BAE values and desired behaviours.
Essential Skills:
- You will be a security SME with experience from either military, defence industry, or national security settings.
- The job holder works within defined processes and procedures but will need to exercise judgment to determine the appropriate solution to a problem, drawing upon past experience and practice.
- Good influencing skills and experience in interacting and communicating with different management levels.
- A proactive approach to solving problems, working with the wider team to develop solutions.
The Air Security Team:
The Site Security and Ops team is a core part of the Air Security function, keeping our large and diverse business safe, secure, and compliant. You will work with colleagues across the team, function, and wider business in a professional and rewarding setting, where your skills and experience as a security SME will be valued.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard.