Maintenance Planner

Babcock International; Cawsand; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and wellbeing

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for Reservists

Be Kind Day volunteer leave

Lifetime engineering culture

Job summary

Babcock International requires a Maintenance Planner to oversee planning and scheduling of maintenance activities at Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth. The role involves coordinating with engineering, facilities and operational teams to prioritise work and ensure compliance with maintenance standards.

The successful candidate will have FM/maintenance planning experience, plus the ability to engage stakeholders across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience in planning maintenance in facilities management or maintenance environments.
• Proven ability to apply maintenance planning principles and best practice.
• Experience coordinating multiple workstreams with multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication across org levels.
• Knowledge of SFG20 maintenance standards is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate maintenance activities to meet operational priorities.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records and asset information in planning systems.
• Monitor compliance with maintenance standards and support external audits.
• Collaborate with engineering, facilities and operations to prioritise and schedule work.
• Drive continuous improvement to enhance service delivery, asset performance and resilience.

Skills

Maintenance planning experience

Facilities management experience

Stakeholder engagement

Clear communication across all levels

SFG20 knowledge (advantage)

Education

National Certificate or equivalent in engineering, facilities management or related field

Job description

Role Overview

collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation while developing your expertise in maintenance planning, facilities management, and operational delivery within the defence and engineering sector.Day-to-day, you'll be required to:Planning and coordinating maintenance activities to ensure work is completed efficiently and in line with operational prioritiesMaintaining accurate maintenance records and asset information within planning systemsMonitoring compliance with maintenance standards and supporting external audit requirementsCollaborating with engineering, facilities, and operational teams to prioritise and schedule work activitiesDriving continuous improvement initiatives that enhance service delivery, asset performance, and business resilienceThis role is full time and based onsite at Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth. Hybrid working patterns are available following an initial onboarding and training period

Essential Experience

• Experience working within facilities management or maintenance environment
• Demonstrable experience applying maintenance planning principles and best practice
• Experience coordinating multiple workstreams, priorities, and multidisciplinary teams
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of an organisation
• Knowledge of SFG20 maintenance standards would be advantageous

Qualifications for the Maintenance Planner

National Certificate or equivalent qualification in an engineering discipline, facilities management, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experienceSecurity ClearanceThe successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at 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 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 Babcock 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
• BabcockWe' - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.Here, you'll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we're building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.We call that lifetime engineering.Join us and see 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 ##### 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: 05/11/######SCOTLAND-BC-WC