Advanced Planning Engineer

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

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Planning Engineer, where you'll play a crucial role in supporting the Royal Navy's operations. This dynamic position involves working on advanced technology and ensuring the maintenance of submarines, contributing to national security. You'll collaborate with various stakeholders to create accurate planning schedules and resolve any ambiguities in project timelines. With a hybrid working model and a commitment to employee well-being, this role offers an exciting opportunity to make a real impact while enjoying a supportive work environment. If you're ready to take on a unique challenge, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience as a Planning Engineer on complex engineering projects.
• Understanding of relevant systems such as P6 or Microsoft Project.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Planning Engineering

Complex Engineering Projects

Stakeholder Liaison

Data Organization

Education

HNC or HND

Tools

P6

Microsoft Project

Job description

Job Title: Planning Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £43,935 - £49,104 + Benefits
Role Type: Permanent
Role ID: SF61198

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 Planning Engineer at one of our Plymouth site.

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.

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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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.