Project Security Officer

Project Security Officer Crawley, West Sussex, South East England, England

Thales
Full Time Crawley, West Sussex, South East England, England 24751 - 34136 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Project Security Officer

Location: Crawley

Are you passionate about Information Security? Do you have a can-do attitude, great leadership and influencing skills? Would you describe yourself as a people person who enjoys challenging work? Can you shape solutions out of complexity?

About Thales

Thales operates across the defence and commercial sectors providing consulting, product, bespoke projects and services to some of the world’s most security conscious customers. You will be working with a hardworking, friendly and welcoming team based in Crawley, UK.

The Opportunity

You will be reporting directly to the head of Bid and Programme Management and the Senior Information Risk Owner, you will provide bid/project managers with specialist advice to help them ensure compliance with relevant information security requirements. You will also play an important role in improving our information security posture by helping raise awareness of the cyber threat and inculcate a strong information security culture across the business.

You will help develop Plans and Procedures that ensure compliance whilst enabling effective working methods. As well as this, you will need to conduct and/or organising security audits/assessments to test adherence to business policies and procedures. You will also be responsible for conducting security briefings to Thales personnel to ensure that a culture of security awareness is maintained and that staff understand their roles and responsibilities in respect of security – this will include briefings carried out as part of bid or project launch activities.

Additionally, you will need to issue regular communications on security matters to ensure that staff are aware of changes in legislation or policy and the emergence of specific security issues or threats. You will also help control and facilitate the distribution of sensitive information assets internally to Thales and with third parties. As well as, controlling sensitive physical assets (e.g. cryptographic or media) in accordance with policy and supporting the conducting of investigations into breaches of security.

About You

You will have a detailed knowledge of security requirements across the defence and commercial sectors and have experience of:

  • HMG’s Contractual Process;
  • HMG Government Security Classifications
  • Security Policy Framework;
  • Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus
  • DEFCON 649, 658, DEFSTAN 05-138 and the Cyber Security Model;
  • Reviewing and negotiating Security Aspects Letters;
  • Preparing F680 and F1686 applications;
  • ISO 27001 and NIST SP 800-171 security requirements;
  • The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification model; and
  • ITAR

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

Great journeys start here, apply now!

Project Security Officer
Thales

www.thalesgroup.com
Paris, France
Patrice Caine
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Aerospace & Defence
2000
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