Vetting Unit Officer; CVO

Central Vetting Unit Officer (CVO)

Employing Company: G4S Secure Solutions Limited

Location:

Hinkley Point C

The HPC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long‑term careers across our Project. Our Central Vetting Officers fulfil a key role in delivering the industry assurance requirement to have all staff and contractors cleared to at least the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) before being set to work unescorted on civil nuclear industry licensed sites.

Central Vetting Officers are responsible for the verification of all security clearance applications submitted to the Central Vetting Service so that a clearance decision can be made and a BPSS or LAPEC clearance issued which will eventually lead to the applicant gaining unescorted access to licensed sites.

Pay £20.56 per hour (£42,882.32 per annum, paid hourly)

Weekly Hours 40 hours per week, normal office hours

• Deliver all aspects of Personnel Security administration for Central Vetting, managing post and emails following process and GDPR.
• Ensuring regulatory requirements for vetting on sites are complied with by all staff and contractors.
• Support daily and monthly reporting.
• Ensure all vetting enquiries are directed to Site Vetting Units.
• Process, verify and manage vetting casework for Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C within Service Level Agreements.
• Conduct assurance activities.
• Provide support to Personnel Security projects and casework as identified by the Nuclear Services Personnel Security Manager.
• Collaborate with the Nuclear Operations Limited facing part of the team where applicable ensuring consistency of approach.
• Identify opportunities for efficiency and where possible using existing and available technology platforms to the business.

• Excellent customer service skills.
• Strong written and verbal communications.
• Strong IT skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to manage workload, prioritise and manage time.
• Adaptable and flexible.
• Ability to follow process and procedure.
• Team player.

• A good standard of education in Maths, English and IT.

• Prior vetting experience preferred but not essential.
• Prior experience of working within a busy office environment and under pressure.
• Excellent IT skills with a working knowledge of all MS Office packages.

• Highest levels of integrity, respectfulness and professionalism required at all times.
• Open, trusting and in the spirit of mutual support, especially when dealing with conflicts of interests.
• An engaging and proactive ‘can do’ attitude where successes and failures are shared.
• Doing what we say we are going to do and only committing to what can be done.
• Listen and communicate effectively.
• Ability to plan ahead as far as possible and share intelligence to prevent surprises.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.