Job Description

Job Title: Access Officer

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £24,500 - £28,000 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76276

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Access Officer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As an Access Officer, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring visitors, contractors and stakeholders can access site safely and securely, helping to support critical national infrastructure while developing valuable administration, customer service and security-focused experience.

Day-to-day, you’ll responsible for managing a high volume of visitor and contractor access requests, ensuring all applications are processed accurately and in line with established security procedures. This is a varied role where attention to detail, customer service excellence and strong organisational skills are essential.

You'll work closely with internal teams, contractors and visitors, helping to maintain secure access arrangements across the site. Every day brings new challenges, making this an excellent opportunity to build experience within the defence sector while contributing to work that truly matters.

• Processing visitor, contractor, VIP and foreign national access requests in line with security procedures.
• Verifying identification, supporting documentation and eligibility requirements for site access.
• Administering security clearances, access permissions and visitor records with a high degree of accuracy.
• Supporting customers and stakeholders through the access application process while delivering excellent service.
• Maintaining accurate records and ensuring compliance with established site security processes.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard. Set working times are 10:00am to 6:00pm Monday to Thursday and 1:00pm to 6:00pm Friday.

Essential experience of the Access Officer

• Strong administrative and organisational skills.
• Experience working within a customer-facing environment.
• High levels of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to interpret and apply procedures consistently.
• Competent user of Microsoft Office applications and IT systems.

Qualifications for the Access Officer

Essential:

• GCSEs in English and Maths at Grade C/Grade 4 or above, or equivalent qualifications.
• Equivalent relevant experience will also be considered.

Desirable:

• NVQ in Customer Service.

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 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: 08/10/2026

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