Personal Security Assistant

Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

Boeing works to improve the world through innovation and collaboration. From the seabed to outer space, you may contribute to meaningful work with a corporation that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are devoted to creating a welcoming, courteous, and inclusive environment for all team members, with plenty of opportunities for professional development. Discover your future with us.

There is a chance to join a multi-skilled security team that provides Boeing Defence UK with all areas of protective security, including information security and assurance, personnel security, business continuity, counter-threat assistance, and risk advising.

BDUK is recruiting a Personnel Security Assistant to join the Personnel Security Team. The role will need you to manage internal and external clearances, process visit requests, and communicate with business divisions and third-party providers.

Position Responsibilities:

• Manage and coordinate security clearances.
• Processing guest requests and clearance confirmations.
• Engagement with stakeholders to ensure that the new starter and departure procedures are optimised.
• Contribute to the improvement of personnel security processes.

The employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Work Authorisation:

This job posting is for a position that will be filled locally in the United Kingdom. Candidates must have current legal authorization to work immediately in the United Kingdom. Boeing will not seek to secure immigration or labour sponsorship for any applicants.

Benefits and salary are established locally and are not part of Boeing’s U.S. payroll.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills and Experience):

• Knowledge and comprehension of MOD and Government security requirements and standards.
• The selected applicant must hold an active Security Cleared level (SC) UK Security Clearance or be eligible for one.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills and Experience):

• Experience handling security clearances would be a significant advantage.
• Experience working in a transnational matrix management environment / structure and a large-scale, complicated international organisation, as well as small teams, would be extremely beneficial.
• Ability to plan, prioritise, and manage one’s own task with little day-to-day supervision, but also know when to seek help/escalate.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with the capacity to adapt to different audiences are required, as is the ability to explain technical concerns in simple terms to non-technical consumers.
• Clear task focus with the capacity to distinguish and articulate vital parts from unnecessary information.

Typical Education and Experience:

Education/experience is often obtained by advanced education (e.g., bachelor’s degree) and three or more years of related job experience, or an equivalent mix of education and experience (e.g., master’s degree plus one year of related work experience, seven years of related work experience, etc.).

Requirements for this post include obtaining a UK security clearance (SC) and having UK residency. All information will be reviewed and confirmed.

Relocation: This post does not offer relocation. Candidates must reside in the immediate vicinity or relocate at their own expense.

What Boeing Has to Offer You!

The Boeing benefits package goes above and above to ensure your physical, emotional, financial, and social well-being. Here’s an overview of what we offer:

• Competitive salary and annual incentive plans.
• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the attitude and skills to navigate what comes next.
• Success as you define it: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you may make a real contribution in your own way.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be accepted for who you are and empowered to utilise your voice to help others find their own.
• 23 days, including UK public holidays and a winter break between Christmas and New Year.
• Pension plan with a 10% employer contribution.
• Company paid for BUPA Medical Plan.
• Short-Term Sickness: 100% payment for the first 26 weeks.
• Long-term sickness: 66.67% of annual wage starting from the 27th week.
• 6 times annual salary life insurance
• Learning Together Programme to help your continuing personal and professional development.
• Access to Boeing’s Well Being Programmes, Tools, and Incentives
• Excellent parental leave benefits.

Export Control Requirements: This is not an export control post.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in our recruitment or employment practices on any basis, including but not limited to: race, colour, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military and veteran status, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

We have teams in over 65 countries, and everyone contributes to our success as one of the world’s most inventive, diverse, and inclusive corporations. We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer who welcomes applications from candidates with disabilities. Applicants are invited to notify our recruitment staff if they require any accommodations during the recruitment process. Accommodations may include, but are not limited to, conducting interviews in accessible locations that cater to mobility needs, encouraging candidates to bring and use any existing assistive technology such as screen readers, and providing flexible interview formats such as virtual or phone interviews.