Construction Planner Mechanical

Babcock International; Taunton; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension with life cover

Digital GP & health check

Employee share scheme

Aviva DigiCare+

Wellbeing support

Be Kind Day

Holiday trading

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, seeks a Construction Planner for Hinkley Point C to shape and manage mechanical construction schedules. The role focuses on coordinating activities, ensuring safe delivery, and maintaining plans across a major nuclear new-build programme.

The successful candidate will work in a hybrid pattern, with emphasis on four-week lookahead planning, risk mitigation, and collaboration across engineering, materials and delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a construction planning environment.
• Experience producing and maintaining detailed project schedules.
• Experience using Primavera P6 planning software.
• Experience on large-scale construction, engineering, maintenance, outage or shutdown projects.
• Experience working in a site-based project environment with multiple stakeholders.

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 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

Schedules & planning

Stakeholder engagement

Site-based experience

Primavera P6

Education

Higher National Certificate in Engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Construction Planner Mechanical

Location: Taunton, GB, TA5 1UD

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Construction Planner

Location: Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75407

Help power one of the UK's most significant clean energy 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 at Hinkley Point C, near Bridgwater, Somerset.

The role

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.

Qualifications for the Construction Planner

• Higher National Certificate (HNC) in an Engineering discipline.
• 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 your chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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.

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