Construction Planner Electrical

Cavendish Nuclear; Taunton; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Employee share scheme

10-days special paid leave for Reservs

Be Kind Day

Development opportunities

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is seeking a Construction Planner Electrical for the Hinkley Point C project in Somerset. The role focuses on developing and maintaining detailed electrical construction schedules and lookahead plans to support the delivery of critical engineering work with close collaboration to delivery teams and stakeholders.

You will monitor progress, manage risks, and produce performance reports, ensuring milestones are achieved safely and efficiently.

Qualifications

• Proven planning experience within construction, engineering, infrastructure or major project environments.
• Experience developing and maintaining detailed project schedules and lookahead plans.
• Ability to monitor progress and report against project milestones and deliverables.
• Experience producing performance, productivity or progress reporting.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining detailed electrical Level 5 construction schedules.
• Preparing and updating four-week lookahead plans aligned to programme milestones.
• Integrating engineering, materials, resource, quality and commissioning requirements into schedules.
• Monitoring installation progress and providing accurate, evidence-based schedule updates.
• Producing planned versus actual performance reports, highlighting productivity trends, risks and constraints.

Skills

Planning experience

Education

HNC in Engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Job Title: Construction Planner Electrical

Location: Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset - Hybrid Working Patterns Available

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75412

Power the planning behind one of the UK's most significant engineering projects

At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Construction Planner Electrical at Hinkley Point C, near Bridgwater, Somerset.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team supporting the delivery of a nationally important infrastructure programme. You'll help drive progress across complex electrical construction activities, providing the planning insight and schedule accuracy needed to ensure safe, efficient and predictable project delivery.

The role

As a Construction Planner Electrical, you'll be responsible for developing and maintaining detailed electrical construction schedules and lookahead plans that support the successful delivery of critical engineering work. Working closely with delivery teams and key stakeholders, you'll provide visibility of progress, productivity, risks and constraints, helping ensure project milestones are achieved safely and effectively.

This role offers the opportunity to work on a large-scale engineering programme where your expertise will directly influence project performance while enhancing your career within the defence, aerospace and engineering sector.

Day-to-day, You’ll Be Required To

• Developing and maintaining detailed electrical Level 5 construction schedules.
• Preparing and updating four-week lookahead plans aligned to programme milestones.
• Integrating engineering, materials, resource, quality and commissioning requirements into schedules.
• Monitoring installation progress and providing accurate, evidence-based schedule updates.
• Producing planned versus actual performance reports, highlighting productivity trends, risks and constraints.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based at Hinkley Point C. Hybrid working patterns are available, with the expectation of regular onsite presence.

Essential Experience Of The Construction Planner Electrical

• Proven planning experience within construction, engineering, infrastructure or major project environments.
• Experience developing and maintaining detailed project schedules and lookahead plans.
• Ability to monitor progress and report against project milestones and deliverables.
• Experience producing performance, productivity or progress reporting.
• Working knowledge of Primavera P6 and site-based project delivery environments is highly desirable.

Qualifications For The Construction Planner Electrical

• HNC in an Engineering discipline.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a valid UK passport holder, with the ability to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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.

Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

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.

Closing date: 03/11/2026

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