Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services
Relief Security Officer
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Relief Security Officer – Aviation Manufacturing
Location: Belfast
Company: Mitie Security Limited
Reporting to: Team Leader
Hourly rate: £15.50
Shift length: 12h shifts
Weekly Hours
As a Relief Officer, you'll provide flexible operational cover across the site, supporting planned and unplanned absences, annual leave.
Why you'll love this role
- Variety every shift – no two days are the same, from access control and patrols to emergency response and incident management
- High-profile environment – work within a secure aviation and manufacturing site where what you do genuinely matters
- Be more than just security – this is a true Protection Officer role with responsibility, trust and visibility
- Full training provided – gain specialist skills in emergency response, first aid, fire safety, aviation security and more
- Career development – build experience that opens doors within aviation security, emergency response and specialist operations
- Team-focused culture – work alongside professional colleagues in a structured, safety-first environment
- Pride in purpose – play a key role in protecting people, assets and critical operations every single day
The role
We're recruiting Relief Security Officer to join our Emergency Response Team supporting a prestigious client in the Aviation & Manufacturing sector. This is a varied, operational role focused on maintaining a secure, safe and resilient manufacturing environment, while responding effectively to security, safety and emergency incidents.
You'll engage with employees, contractors, visitors and external agencies, acting as a professional first responder and a visible ambassador for safety and security on site. Full training is provided.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver reception-based security and administrative duties
- Control site access for personnel, visitors and vehicles, including inductions, ID verification, keys and passes
- Conduct searches to protect client assets, materials and IT equipment
- Patrol the site (foot, mobile and CCTV), monitoring critical infrastructure, behaviour, drone activity and suspicious items
- Monitor and respond to fire, intruder and building alarms, logging all actions and outcomes
- Act as first responder to security, fire, medical and environmental incidents
- Carry out emergency response activities including first aid, fire response and incident containment
- Perform routine system, alarm and safety checks; report faults via CAFM/estates systems
- De-escalate conflict professionally in line with legislation, client and Mitie policies
- Accurately report incidents, near-misses and breaches, gathering evidence and statements
- Work closely with client security management and operational teams
- Adhere to PPE, health & safety, GDPR and cyber security requirements
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Workplace emergency response
- Conduct fire and health & safety checks and escalate risks
- Respond to chemical spills, flooding and environmental hazards
- Provide first aid and coordinate emergency services where required
- Support fire incidents within training scope and liaise with Fire & Rescue Services
- Use body-worn cameras, radios and emergency response driving awareness as required
Person specification
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Valid SIA Door Supervisor licence (CCTV licence or willingness to obtain)
- Full UK driving licence and access to transport
- Right to work in the UK with 5-year checkable background
- British nationality or UK residency for 5 years
- Ability to obtain CTC (Counter Terrorism Clearance)
- Flexible to work days, nights and weekends
- Professional, proactive and calm under pressure
- Strong attention to detail and report writing skills
- IT literate (Microsoft Office / Outlook)
- Physically fit with the stamina to perform emergency response duties
Desirable
- Fire safety experience
- Aviation security experience
Training provided
Comprehensive Training Programme Including
- Emergency response driving awareness
- First aid (IEC - Immediate Emergency Care including delivery of medical gasses)
- Fire safety and extinguishers
- Aviation security
- CCTV/control room operations
- COSHH
- Spill response
- Working at height
- JESIP and more.
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
- We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home.
- We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
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When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!
- We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.
- Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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