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Job Title: Receptionist
Location: Carlisle, Cumbria
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64469
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Receptionist at our Skelton, Penrith site.
The role
As a Receptionist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. A fantastic opportunity for a receptionist to join a leading defence technology company, supporting a growing portfolio of high-integrity maritime, weapons, communications, and intelligence projects.
Day-to-day, you’ll work within a small, highly effective team where the highest standards are expected—both technically and behaviourally. Additionally, you will:
- Schedule appointments and meetings; manage meeting room bookings
- Greet and welcome visitors, register them, issue passes, and direct them to the appropriate person or team
- Manage security, including arranging visitor escorts and verifying security clearances as required
- Handle phone communications, including responding to queries, redirecting calls, and taking messages accurately
- Manage correspondence, including incoming and outgoing mail and deliveries
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Skelton, Penrith.
Essential Experience Of The Receptionist
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with strong organisational abilities
- A proven track record in a customer service environment.
- A friendly and professional demeanour
- Confident user of Microsoft packages
- Must have own transport due to location of site.
Qualifications For The Receptionist
- NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in a relevant subject is preferred but not essential
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .
What We Offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email
[email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 17/07/2025 
