Great British Energy - Nuclear

Originally named, Great British Nuclear, Great British Energy - Nuclear is an arm's length body of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, dedicated to supporting the development and deployment of new nuclear technologies in Great Britain. We play a crucial role in advancing nuclear new build, ensuring the UK's energy security and achieving net-zero carbon emissions. Great British Energy - Nuclear focuses on fostering innovation, facilitating investment, and coordinating efforts across the nuclear industry to build a resilient and sustainable energy future.

The IPT Safety, Licensing and Assurance Function

The IPT Safety, Licensing and Assurance Function is seeking a skilled and experienced Secure By Design Manager, this role is responsible for managing the development and delivery of physical security, secure by design, and security policy and standards across a critical national infrastructure environment. The postholder will provide authoritative advice to ensure that all companies' assets, sites, programs, and infrastructure are designed, operated, and governed in line with protective security risk management principles, national security obligations, regulatory requirements, and organisational risk appetite. The role combines policy leadership, design assurance, and operational security governance to ensure protective security is embedded from concept through to live operation, using proportionate, risk-based, and layered controls that support resilience and business and regulatory outcomes.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Manage the development, review, and maintenance of physical and protective security policies, standards, procedures, and guidance in line with government security and regulatory requirements, protective security outcomes, and organisational risk appetite.
• Ensure that physical security is embedded into the programme by using secure by design methodology and a security-minded approach so that security requirements are considered throughout the full asset and project lifecycle.
• Provide expert advice and design on physical security systems including perimeter protection, access control, CCTV, intrusion detection, guarding, screening, secure areas, hostile vehicle mitigation, and the integration of proportionate and layered controls to protect the company's people, information, and assets.
• Develop and maintain security standards aligned to relevant legislation, regulations, government policy frameworks, and recognised protective security guidance, including NPSA principles and other requirements applicable to sensitive and critical environments.
• Work with project teams, estates, facilities, digital, operational technology, and business stakeholders to translate security requirements into practical, proportionate, and resilient solutions.
• Conduct protective security risk assessments, threat and vulnerability assessments, operational requirements and design assurance activities for sites and programmes, applying a structured protective security risk management approach.
• Develop governance and assurance processes by preparing reports, submissions, risk papers, and recommendations.
• Monitor changes in threat, legislation, national policy, regulatory frameworks, and protective security best practice, updating policies and standards to maintain compliance and operational relevance.
• Develop and maintain assurance, compliance, exception, and derogation processes to test whether protective security controls and standards are implemented effectively and remain proportionate to identified risks.
• Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that physical security requirements are incorporated and delivered to the required standard.
• Provide advice and support during incidents, exercises, audits, inspections, and post-incident reviews where physical security policy, resilience, assurance, or design standards are relevant.