Gatehouse Security Officer
Location: Filton, BS34
Pay: £13.67 per hour
Hours: Monday to Friday, rotating early and late shifts – 42 hours per week
As a Gatehouse Security Officer, you’ll be the face and the force behind safety in a highly sensitive aerospace and defence environment. This is your chance to make a meaningful impact every day—protecting people, property, and critical information while delivering a first‑class experience to everyone who passes through the gate.
You are the first line of defence and the first impression of the site. From controlling access points and verifying credentials to conducting patrols and managing vehicle and personnel searches, you’ll combine vigilance with professionalism in every interaction. Your presence will be reassuring, your judgement trusted, and your role essential.
This isn’t just a job—it’s a pathway to growth. As a Gatehouse Security Officer, you’ll develop your skills in risk management, incident response, and high‑security operations, all while working as part of a team that values integrity, attention to detail, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Provide an effective security presence and proactive response service.
- Respond and deal with all site risk events in a timely manner.
- Carry out fire prevention duties, fire alarm and sprinkler activation.
- Perform gate duties, ensuring no unauthorised persons or vehicles enter the site, inspect site pass credentials, pass key issue, vehicle and personal searches.
- Ensure that activities are correctly recorded, reported and documented as high quality reports (verbal and/or written).
- Undertake any other duties as determined by the management team.
Qualifications
We’re looking for someone who values teamwork, shows initiative, and wants to grow.
- Valid SIA Licence.
- Eligibility to work in the UK and a 5‑year checkable history.
- Fit and alert – able to patrol large perimeters and work outdoors.
- Self‑motivated, proactive and detail‑oriented.
- Embody our core values: Integrity, Vigilance and Helpfulness.
- Must be able to achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) Clearance.
Diversity & Inclusion – Be Yourself
We are an inclusive employer, proud of our Level 2 Disability Confident status. We will always try our hardest to guarantee interviews for eligible candidates, should you meet the role’s minimum requirements, having disclosed a disability to our Talent Team upon application. We support equality through Employee Networks, the Race at Work Charter and the Armed Forces Covenant, and celebrate diversity with events such as BSL Week, International Women’s Day, PRIDE and Black History Month.
Your Benefits
- STRIVE – Securitas Perks gives you access to a great range of discounts on a variety of retailers, services and everyday spending to suit your shopping habits.
- Dental Plans – a range of plans providing support, cash back towards everyday dental costs such as examinations, X‑rays and treatment.
- HSF Health Plan – range of healthcare cash plans at highly discounted rates, providing families with peace of mind by getting cash back on everyday medical costs and covering unexpected costs.
- Cycle to Work – a cost‑effective way of getting a brand new bike, cycling equipment or both. Save up to 42% of the usual cost and spread the cost over several months from your salary.
- Specsavers – save money on eye tests and when purchasing spectacles.
- WeCare – a 24/7 online GP, mental health support service, get fit programme and more.
- Toothfairy – online access to advice and guidance, from real UK Dentists.
- Pension Plan – build up a benefit in the Securitas Pension Plan, with the benefit of employer contribution plus tax relief on your contributions.
- Payroll ISA – an ISA savings account to meet your longer‑term personal financial goals.
- Free Mortgage Advice.
- Go & Live – Financial Wellbeing Hub.
- Death in Service Benefit – Permanent employees are automatically covered for Life Assurance, which provides a lump sum benefit to beneficiaries in the unfortunate event of death in service whilst employed by Securitas.
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