Lead Mechanical Construction Planner

weServed ofVeterans Ltd.; Bridgwater; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme with life cover

Digital GP and wellbeing services

Employee share scheme

Professional fees paid

Be Kind Day volunteering leave

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is seeking a Lead Mechanical Construction Planner for the Hinkley Point C site near Bridgwater, Somerset. The role combines leadership of a planning team with hands-on development of integrated mechanical schedules to align with major project milestones.

Hybrid pattern is available, and security clearance is required. The successful candidate will drive interfaces across disciplines, manage schedule risks, and provide critical visibility to ensure safe, coordinated delivery of

Qualifications

• Higher National Certificate in an Engineering discipline.

Responsibilities

• Leading and coordinating the Mechanical Construction Planning team to support project delivery.
• Developing and maintaining integrated Level 5 mechanical construction schedules aligned to programme milestones.
• Confirming activities entering the four-week planning window are sufficiently mature and ready for construction.
• Identifying and managing interfaces between mechanical, electrical, heating, ventilation and air conditioning, and other delivery disciplines.
• Producing mechanical planning reports, progress reviews and contributions to the overall 16-week lookahead programme.

Skills

Construction planning

Project controls

Engineering planning

Team leadership

Schedule risk

Education

Higher National Certificate (Engineering)

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Job Title: Lead Mechanical Construction Planner

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

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF77012

Lead the planning that powers one of the UK's most significant engineering programmes

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

The role

As a Lead Mechanical Construction Planner, you’ll take ownership of mechanical construction planning activities on a major infrastructure programme, leading a team responsible for ensuring construction schedules are integrated, achievable and aligned with key project milestones. Your work will provide critical visibility of construction readiness, interfaces, constraints and schedule risks, supporting the safe, coordinated and predictable delivery of complex engineering works.

This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on a project that supports the UK's future infrastructure and engineering capability. Working alongside multidisciplinary teams, you’ll help drive project success while developing your leadership, planning and project controls expertise in a dynamic environment at the forefront of engineering excellence.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Leading and coordinating the Mechanical Construction Planning team to support project delivery.
• Developing and maintaining integrated Level 5 mechanical construction schedules aligned to programme milestones.
• Confirming activities entering the four-week planning window are sufficiently mature and ready for construction.
• Identifying and managing interfaces between mechanical, electrical, heating, ventilation and air conditioning, and other delivery disciplines.
• Producing mechanical planning reports, progress reviews and contributions to the overall 16-week lookahead programme.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based at Hinkley Point C. Hybrid working patterns are available.

Essential experience of the Lead Mechanical Construction Planner

• Significant experience within a construction planning, project controls or engineering planning environment.
• Experience leading or managing planning teams within major construction or infrastructure projects.
• Experience developing and managing integrated construction schedules.
• Experience using Primavera P6 planning software.
• Experience working in site-based construction, maintenance, outage or shutdown planning environments

Qualifications for the Lead Mechanical Construction Planner:

• Higher National Certificate 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: 11/11/2026

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