Construction Planner

Cavendish Nuclear; Bridgwater; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension scheme

Digital GP

Life assurance

Employee share scheme

Shopping portal

Professional fees paid

Be Kind Day

Volunteer leave

Wellbeing programme

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is seeking a Construction Planner to support the Hinkley Point C project in the UK. The role focuses on developing and maintaining detailed construction schedules, ensuring alignment with programme objectives and safety requirements.

You will prepare four-week lookahead plans, monitor progress, and coordinate across engineering, materials, resources, access, quality and commissioning teams. Flexibility includes four days onsite and one remote day.

Qualifications

• Significant experience within a construction planning environment.
• Experience producing and maintaining detailed project schedules.
• Experience using Primavera P6 planning software.
• Experience working on large-scale construction, engineering, maintenance, outage or shutdown projects.
• Experience working in a site-based project environment and engaging with multiple stakeholders.
• Must be able to achieve and maintain BPSS security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining detailed mechanical construction schedules aligned to programme objectives.
• Preparing and updating four-week lookahead plans and supporting longer-term planning activities.
• Monitoring progress against planned outputs and providing accurate, evidence-based schedule updates.
• Integrating engineering, materials, resources, access, quality and commissioning requirements into construction plans.
• Confirming activity readiness and collaborating with construction and delivery teams to identify and mitigate risks.

Skills

Construction planning

Scheduling

Stakeholder engagement

Project coordination

Security clearance BPSS

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

This is your opportunity to play a key role in delivering one of the largest and most complex infrastructure projects in Europe. Working at the heart of a major nuclear new-build programme, you'll help ensure construction activities are planned, coordinated, and delivered safely and efficiently. This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based at Hinkley Point C. Flexible working arrangements are available, with the potential for a working pattern of four days onsite and one day remote. Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Developing and maintaining detailed mechanical construction schedules aligned to programme objectives.
• Preparing and updating four-week lookahead plans and supporting longer-term planning activities.
• Monitoring progress against planned outputs and providing accurate, evidence-based schedule updates.
• Integrating engineering, materials, resources, access, quality and commissioning requirements into construction plans.
• Confirming activity readiness and collaborating with construction and delivery teams to identify and mitigate risks.

Essential experience of the Construction Planner

• Significant experience within a construction planning environment.
• Experience producing and maintaining detailed project schedules.
• Experience using Primavera P6 planning software.
• Experience working on large-scale construction, engineering, maintenance, outage or shutdown projects.
• Experience working in a site-based project environment and engaging with multiple stakeholders.
• The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. 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 Cavendish 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.

Cavendish We're Cavendish Nuclear - a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. Here, you'll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts - not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.