Equipment Security Lead (Defence)
NCC
Location: Emersons Green, Bristol, BS16 7FS
Hybrid Working: 3 days on site, 2 days homeworking
Salary: £28,321 to £37,465 per annum experience dependent + 12.5% employer pension + Private Medical Insurance
Security Clearance Requirements: due to the nature of our business, employment is subject to a level of government security clearance.
Closing Date: 11th December 2025 – We reserve the right to close this advert early if required.
We’re looking to hire an Equipment Security Lead within our Secure Operations team supporting Defence related activities.
We’re a national R&D centre - government-backed, not-for-profit, and mission-driven. We work across 16 sectors and over 100 partners a year. Our people are here to deliver outcomes that matter, and you’ll be involved in how we support, retain and grow them.
What you’ll be doing:
You’ll ensure that equipment is scoped, specified and procured with security in mind, and to consider how the equipment will be operated in a highly secure environment.
You will also develop the policies and processes required for the secure operations of the equipment, ensuring that these are communicated and readily accessible to NCC personnel, contractors and visitors.
Once the equipment is in operation, the role holder will work closely with the Engineering team to ensure that the equipment continues to be operated and maintained in a secure manner.
Specific responsibilities could be:
- Developing and signposting to Secure Operations processes and policies
- Responding to queries
- Providing education, training and briefings to NCC personnel, contractors and visitors
- Supporting the development of practical approaches to secure working in engineering and office spaces, to enable technical and operational activity to happen in an appropriately secure manner
- Attending collaborative working groups such as Space Review Board
- Supporting security audits
- Supporting asset management
Job descriptions provided at interview stage for full details of activities.
What we’re looking for:
- Experience of creating and editing policies, processes and procedures
- Experience of developing training and briefing material
- Able to obtain DV level security clearance
- Ability to work on site 3 days per week, aligned to business requirements
- Experience of an engineering R&D environment
- Desirable: Experience of MOD standards relating to the security of information
- Desirable: Experience of working at UKG classification levels
- Desirable: Sound knowledge of information security and security management practices
Our desirables really are just desirable, please apply if you have the core experience mentioned above.
What we offer:
- 12.5% employer pension contribution
- Private medical cover
- Flexible and hybrid working as standard
- Clear routes to grow your skills and influence
- A team that gets things done without the drama
Not sure if it’s a fit? Happy to have a quick chat first, please reach out to [email protected] or via linked in. Know someone who might be right? Tag or share them with us.
Why NCC?
What we do
We help manufacturers take on bigger challenges - whether that’s building cleaner aircraft, scaling up offshore wind, or strengthening the UK’s supply chains. We’re here to deliver practical outcomes, not prototypes that sit on shelves.
Who we work with
We work across 16 sectors, from defence and energy to infrastructure and space. Some projects are with global tier 1s, others with small UK firms solving one specific problem - the works always varied, and always real.
What it’s like here
We’re not a startup. We’re not a corporate. We’re a national centre with the kit, time and people to do the job properly. The teams are focused, the thinking is sharp, and you’ll be trusted to get on with it.
Why this job matters
This role isn’t just internal support - it’s part of how we deliver nationally important work. If we do our job right, the UK’s manufacturers can do theirs better.