Spontaneous Tactical Command Lead

Job Title: Spontaneous Tactical Command Lead

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Competitive

What you’ll be doing:

• Identify, assess and mitigate risks to BAESS Barrow Site operations using SSSCR capabilities
• Engage stakeholders to mitigate risk, support BAU activity, and provide tactical oversight of operations and incidents
• Direct contracted security and control room staff on security posture in response to business needs and incidents
• Provide tactical command leadership during incidents, including those involving DNA, DNI and ANM, enabling unified command
• Coordinate and support multi-agency incident response, including reception, staging and integration
• Apply JESIP and the National Decision Model to assess risk and activate Tactical or Strategic Command as required
• Review, debrief and improve incident response and BAU processes to support recovery and business continuity
• Ensure compliance through effective quality assurance and business process management

Your skills and experiences:

• Strong understanding and application of integrated incident response principles, gained in a corporate security or emergency preparedness management role, defence, emergency response organisation or military environment.
• Strong Stakeholder Management experience. The ability to work with people, both internally and externally, to build support to achieve intended outcomes.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Tactical Command Team:

The post holder will assess, risk manage and co-ordinate an effective initial response to any emerging incident in order to protect BAE Systems, its people, infrastructure, information and assets, as well as the interests of its shareholders and customers, and to fulfil regulatory and legal obligations.

In support of the safe and secure operation and emergency response of the BAES Barrow site the post holder will co-ordinate resources, communications and command and control from a holistic incident response perspective and would be the spontaneous tactical command lead as part of the incident command structure at the site in support of the Security Fire & Resilience Department (SF&R) mission statement: To enable the safe, secure and resilient delivery of the Submarines Mission and allow the company to respond to any incident (regardless of the cause) in a swift, combined and co-ordinated manner. We offer relocation support across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 11th February 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. 

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