Lead Planning Manager

Cavendish Nuclear; Taunton; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme with life cover

Digital GP and annual health check

Employee share scheme

Be Kind Day (paid leave)

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is seeking a Lead Planning Manager for Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset. You will drive the integration and control of complex schedules across MEH disciplines, ensuring coordination, interfaces and constraints are managed to deliver a major national infrastructure project.

The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration with stakeholders, and expert schedule management to support safe, predictable delivery on a high-profile nuclear programme.

Qualifications

• Significant experience within a project controls, planning or programme controls environment.
• Proven experience coordinating complex, multidisciplinary programmes within major project environments.
• Strong expertise in schedule management, including Level 5 planning and lookahead planning.
• Experience managing project interfaces, constraints and dependencies to enable predictable delivery.
• Ability to lead, influence and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across large-scale engineering, infrastructure, energy or nuclear projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead integration of Mechanical, Electrical and HVAC Level 5 schedules across the programme.
• Coordinate discipline and area four-week lookahead plans.
• Manage the consolidation and maintenance of the overall 16-week lookahead schedule.
• Integrate engineering, materials, access, resource, construction, testing and commissioning requirements into delivery plans.
• Promote collaborative planning, constructive challenge and professional standards to support successful programme delivery.

Skills

Project controls experience

Multidisciplinary coordination

Schedule management

Stakeholder collaboration

Leadership & influence

Education

Engineering/PM degree

Job description

Job Title: Lead Planning Manager

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75408

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

Drive the planning excellence behind one of the United Kingdom’s most significant infrastructure and nuclear programmes. 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 Lead Planning Manager at Hinkley Point C, near Bridgwater, Somerset. This role is central to ensuring the successful coordination and delivery of a major Mechanical, Electrical and HVAC programme, helping to support critical national infrastructure for generations to come. This is a brilliant opportunity to work as part of the MEH Alliance on the prestigious Hinkley Point C Nuclear project. The alliance work across the project to integrate and coordinate the delivery of all main Mechanical, Electrical, Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (MEH), cabling and associated support services. This innovative approach will help different contractors work as a single entity to deliver the complex installation of cabling and pipework in the power station’s vast network of rooms. As a Lead Planning Manager, you'll lead the integration and control of complex programme schedules across multiple engineering disciplines. Working at the heart of a large-scale infrastructure project, you'll provide the planning leadership needed to align delivery activities, manage interfaces and constraints, and ensure projects remain achievable, predictable and efficiently coordinated. This is an exciting opportunity to influence the successful delivery of a nationally important programme while working alongside industry-leading engineering, construction and project controls professionals. You'll play a vital role in enabling informed decision-making, driving collaboration and helping create lasting infrastructure that supports the UK's future.

Day-to-day, You’ll Be Required To

• Leading the integration of Mechanical, Electrical and HVAC Level 5 schedules across the programme.
• Coordinating the development and review of discipline and area four-week lookahead plans.
• Managing the consolidation and maintenance of the overall 16-week lookahead schedule.
• Integrating engineering, materials, access, resource, construction, testing and commissioning requirements into delivery plans.
• Promoting collaborative planning, constructive challenge and professional standards to support successful programme delivery.

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 Planning Manager

• Significant experience within a project controls, planning or programme controls environment.
• Proven experience coordinating complex, multidisciplinary programmes within major project environments.
• Strong expertise in schedule management, including Level 5 planning and lookahead planning.
• Experience managing project interfaces, constraints and dependencies to enable predictable delivery.
• Ability to lead, influence and collaborate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders across large-scale engineering, infrastructure, energy or nuclear projects.

Qualifications For The Lead Planning Manager

• Degree in Engineering, Project Management or a related 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: 02/11/2026