Advanced Planning Engineer

Babcock International; Helensburgh; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology and engineering firm is seeking a Planning Engineer to manage maintenance data and scheduling for submarine projects. The role offers hybrid working arrangements and requires strong engineering project experience. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of project management software and data organization skills. Competitive compensation and benefits are included.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Qualifications

• Experience working in engineering projects is essential.
• Knowledge of project management software is crucial.
• Organizational skills in data management are required.

Responsibilities

• Identify maintenance data and work required for submarine maintenance.
• Resolve planning and scheduling ambiguities.
• Build indicative planning schedules for maintenance activities.

Skills

Experience as a Planning Engineer on complex engineering projects

Understanding of P6 or Microsoft project

Understanding of data organization

Education

HNC or HND

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Planning Engineer

Location: Faslane, Helensburgh or Ashton, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £43,935 - £49,104 + Benefits

Role Type: Full-Time / Permanent

Role ID: SF61198

The role

As a Planning Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Working on the latest cutting-edge technology for the Royal Navy ensuring the continuous at sea deterrent which ensures the safeguarding of the UK.

Day-to-day, you’ll identify the maintenance data and work required for the future submarine maintenance periods.

• Resolve any planning and scheduling ambiguities within these activities.
• Provide regular liaison with a variety of stakeholders to ensure accuracy and achievement of the required quality.
• Build the indicative planning schedule (key date schedule) for the maintenance work activities.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

This position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites around once per month.

Essential experience of the Planning Engineer

• Experience working as a Planning Engineer on complex engineering projects.
• Understanding of relevant systems such as P6 or Microsoft project.
• Understanding of data and how it needs to be organised.

Qualifications for the Planning Engineer

• Ideally hold an HNC or HND, although this is not essential.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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 [e-mail] 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.

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