Lead Mechanical Construction Planner

Babcock; Taunton; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension scheme, 


Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists in the armed forces 10-days

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear at Hinkley Point C seeks a Lead Mechanical Construction Planner to own the planning for a major infrastructure programme, leading a team to deliver integrated schedules and ensure alignment with project milestones.

You will coordinate interfaces across disciplines, drive four-week and 16-week lookahead planning, and contribute to safe, predictable delivery. Hybrid working patterns available.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in construction planning or project controls.
• Experience leading planning teams on major infrastructure projects.
• Skilled in developing integrated construction schedules.
• Proficient with Primavera P6.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Mechanical Construction Planning team to support project delivery.
• Develop and maintain Level 5 construction schedules aligned to milestones.
• Coordinate interfaces between disciplines and manage lookahead planning.
• Produce planning reports and progress reviews.

Skills

Leadership

Project controls

Scheduling

Team management

Education

Higher National Certificate in Engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

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Lead Mechanical Construction Planner

Location: Taunton, GB, TA5 1UD

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Lead Mechanical Construction Planner

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

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.
• 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.

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.