HeaderSecurity & Information Assurance Manager (Permanent)Halifax NS, Winnipeg MB, Ottawa ON, Victoria BCExpected Salary $88,641 to $116,341
To determine final salary, Babcock considers a variety of factors including the successful Candidate's skills and experience and internal equity. The final base salary offer is at the Company's sole discretion and presented as part of a competitive total compensation package.
Your RoleWhat You Do Here MattersIn a complex world marked by the threat of war, natural disasters, and geopolitical instability, national security has never been more important.
DescriptionIn this role, you will:
- Lead and administer Babcock Canada's Security and Information Assurance Program as Company Security Officer, ensuring compliance with contractual, regulatory, customer, and corporate requirements.
- Develop, implement, and continuously improve security objectives, policies, standards, procedures, metrics, and assurance activities that support business objectives and regulatory compliance.
- Act as the primary point of contact for customers, regulators, and government security authorities on security program matters.
- Interpret and implement security requirements arising from contracts, regulations, the Industrial Security Program, the Controlled Goods Program, and corporate policies.
- Assess security threats, vulnerabilities, and risks; recommend mitigation strategies; and provide expert security advice to leadership and business stakeholders.
- Lead security assurance activities, including audits, inspections, monitoring, investigations, reporting, and corrective actions, and assess the effectiveness of security controls and program performance.
- Collaborate with IT and cybersecurity teams to align physical, personnel, information, and cyber security controls and protect classified, protected, and sensitive information and assets.
- Oversee personnel security, facility security, access control, secure area accreditation, Controlled Goods Program activities, and related security administration requirements.
- Provide security oversight, due diligence, and advice for contracts, suppliers, projects, business pursuits, acquisitions, partnerships, and other organizational initiatives.
- Support travel security, incident response, emergency management, business continuity, crisis management, and organizational resilience activities as required.
- Promote a positive security culture through awareness, engagement, education, and training initiatives across the organization.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
The ideal canadidate brings:
- Minimum 8 years of experience in corporate, government, defence, industrial, or regulated security environments, including administration of the Industrial Security Program and Controlled Goods Program.
- Experience developing and implementing security policies, procedures, risk management, compliance, and assurance programs.
- Knowledge of physical and personnel security, including access control, investigations, audits, security clearances, screening, and visitor management.
- Understanding of information security, cybersecurity, business continuity, and emergency management principles.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, report writing, communication, stakeholder engagement, and influencing skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with senior leaders, customers, regulators, and government agencies.
- Post-secondary education in Security Management or a related field is an asset.
- Project management experience or certification is an asset.
- Bilingualism (English/French) is an asset.
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain NATO Secret clearance, Controlled Goods registration, and ITAR eligibility.
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