Job Title: Security Administrator

Location: RAF Lossiemouth – full time onsite

Salary: £31,216+ depending on experience

You’re expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development.

We know there may be exceptional individual circumstances that impact this, in the first instance please discuss this with your line manager.

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Who we are:

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.

Job Description:

Join the Typhoon Synthetic Training Facility (North) Security team and play a vital role in protecting sensitive information that supports critical defence training capabilities. Working within a highly secure and technology-driven environment, you will help ensure classified information, systems and materials are managed in accordance with security requirements, supporting the integrity, availability and confidentiality of business-critical information. Collaborating closely with Security Administrators, Facility Security Managers and operational stakeholders, you will contribute to the safe and effective operation of advanced synthetic training facilities that support the UK’s defence capability. This role offers excellent opportunities to develop specialist security knowledge, gain exposure to secure environments and build knowledge within an important area of BAE Systems’ operations.

Core duties:

• Controlling access and egress to secure facilities, verifying clearances and conducting searches in line with security procedures
• Maintaining visitor records, coordinating visitor access and providing escorts within classified environments when required
• Conducting regular security patrols, monitoring compliance and reporting security breaches or policy violations
• Enforcing Portable Electronic Device policies, preventing prohibited items from entering secure areas and protecting sensitive information
• Adhere to key access and security processes, issuing authorised keys and completing daily checks, audits and inventories
• Supporting security assurance activities by maintaining accurate records and assisting internal and external security audits and inspections

Essential Skills:

• Considerable experience within a security role, applying physical security procedures and information protection controls in regulated environments
• Excellent knowledge of personnel and physical security principles, with experience maintaining compliance with security policies
• Experience working within a defence, military or secure government-related environment with classified information requirements
• Knowledge of JSP440, GovS007 or equivalent security standards and their practical application within secure facilities
• Familiarity with MOD or Defence Industry security environments, supporting audits, access control and security assurance activities

The Typhoon Synthetic Training Facility (North) Security Team:

Supporting one of BAE Systems’ most security-critical environments, this team plays a vital role in protecting classified information, facilities and defence capabilities that underpin advanced synthetic training operations. Through the application of rigorous security controls, assurance activities and access management processes, they help safeguard sensitive assets, maintain compliance with defence security standards and enable the secure delivery of training programmes. Their work is fundamental to maintaining trust, resilience and operational effectiveness across a highly regulated and technology-driven environment.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

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. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 23rd November 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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