Navy Command

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 326768**Salary**:

- £27,080- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Navy**Type of role**:

- Security**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Faslane Port, Scotland, G84 8HLAbout the job

**Job summary**:
His Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde (HMNB) Clyde is home to the United Kingdom’s Strategic Nuclear Deterrent, Astute Class Attack Submarines, Sandown Class Mine Hunter Vessels and 43 Cdo Royal Marines. It is an operational support and maintenance base within the Navy Command TLB and comprises both Faslane and Coulport sites. HMNB Clyde’s primary purpose is to provide engineering and logístical support to the Royal Navy in maintaining Continuous at Sea Deterrent (CASD). This is achieved by ensuring at least one Vanguard Submarine is on patrol at sea every day of the year.
Royal Navy Armaments Depot (RNAD) Coulport is responsible for the storage, processing, maintenance and issue of the Trident Weapon System and the ammunitioning of all submarine-embarked tactical weapons.

HMNB Clyde is the single operational home of the Submarine Service and will become the United Kingdom’s Submarine Centre of Excellence. This single integrated operating base is to ensure that the Royal Navy can deliver its operational commitments across all Defence Lines of Development from Scotland on an enduring basis.

An exciting opportunity has become available to join the Security Access Control Team based at HMNB Clyde. We are seeking an enthusiastic customer focused applicant to join a busy and committed team. The Security Symmetry System Administrator post will primarily undertake key tasks to manage the Security Access Control Policy and procedures in accordance with the Access Control Strategy at HMNB Clyde (which includes Faslane Naval Base and RNAD Coulport). This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring accurate management and provision of Automated Access Control database services, conducting quality assurance checks on the operation of the Automated Access Control System infrastructure and provide mitigation for planned power outages and maintenance. In addition, the post will be responsible for the training oversight for new system operators, maintaining accurate system user records and passwords.

The post holder will also be the primary point of contact for delivering security briefs, issuing non-photographic Group Passes and appropriate documentation to the Command Team onboard visiting vessels upon arrival at Faslane Naval Base, often out of normal working hours.

The successful applicant will have line management responsibility for MOD Pass Office Staff at Faslane and Coulport and will liaise extensively with the MGS to identify resource and tasking issues.

This is a challenging and demanding post, and the successful applicant will need to be comfortable working in a multi-tasking, fast-paced environment to support key security outputs, while ensuring that policies and procedures are always followed.

The post requires a flexible, customer focused approach. The post will require the job holder to demonstrate excellent effective communications skills as the post will involve communicating daily with civilian staff and military personnel of various grades and ranks. The position allows a certain amount of autonomy and so ideally this role suits someone with drive and initiative. Working to scheduled and changing priorities determining the pace of work, an ability to manage both time and workloads is essential. The successful applicant will be comfortable working in a changeable environment and will have a continuous improvement ethos. This post provides excellent development and progression opportunities for applicants wishing to pursue a career within the Civil Service.
This post requires on site attendance to deliver the responsibilities of the role which cannot be delivered remotely off-site.

This post is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
Role responsibilities:

- Support the Security Access Control Authority (SACA) and Security Access Control Manager (SACM) with the implementation of an Access Control Strategy at HMNB Clyde and the future upgrade of all Symmetry System packages.
- Manage the Access Control Team at Coulport, the Pass Office Team in Faslane and liaise extensively with the MOD Guard Service (MGS) to identify resource and tasking problems. Report issues as appropriate to SACM.
- Assist in the day to day management and provision of Symmetry database services and user training for the Symmetry database, checking the competency of new account holders while creating and managing the Symmetry Accounts for authorised user personnel.
- Conduct quality assurance checks of th