Principal Planner

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading nuclear solutions provider is seeking a Principal Planner in Warrington. This full-time, hybrid role involves overseeing planning functions and managing a team, with a focus on leadership and development. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in engineering or defense planning governance. The position offers excellent development opportunities and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Excellent development opportunities

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Qualifications

• Demonstrable leadership in a planning function within engineering or defense programmes.
• Strong understanding of planning governance, assurance, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Oversee planning governance across the PP&E programme.
• Provide leadership and coordination across Aurora and AFS sub-programmes.
• Support onboarding, mentoring, and development of planning professionals.
• Manage and develop a team of planners, working closely with Project Control Leads.
• Champion consistency and best practice across delivery teams.

Skills

Leadership in planning

Planning governance

Quality assurance

Job description

Location: Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD

Drive Precision, Performance, and Progress

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Principal Planner at our Warrington, Cheshire site.

The role

As a Principal Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be embedded within one of the UK’s most complex and high-value defence infrastructure programmes. Working on the PP&E project, you’ll be stepping in at a pivotal moment, where your expertise will help shape the long-term direction and success of the programme. As a visible leader, you’ll mentor fellow planners, promote consistency across planning outputs, and help define the strategic direction of the planning function. You’ll also have the opportunity to lead initiatives and drive improvements across a diverse and impactful portfolio.

Day-to-day, you’ll play a key role in influencing long-term outcomes across a major programme, with significant opportunities for leadership, innovation, and career progression.

• Oversee planning governance across the PP&E programme
• Provide leadership and coordination across Aurora and AFS sub‑programmes
• Support onboarding, mentoring, and development of planning professionals
• Manage and develop a team of planners, working closely with Project Control Leads
• Champion consistency and best practice across delivery teams

This is a full‑time role (37 hours per week) with flexible and hybrid working arrangements, typically involving two days on‑site at our Warrington (Cheshire) location and three days working remotely.

Essential experience

• Demonstrable leadership in a planning function within engineering or defence programmes
• Strong understanding of planning governance, assurance and quality

Qualifications

• We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you
• 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 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.

As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost‑effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, 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 e‑mail [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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