Project Planner

weServed; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping portal

Payment of professional fees

10 days paid leave for Reservists

Holiday Trading scheme

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Project Planner in Plymouth, Devonport Dockyard, offering hybrid working and a 35-hour week. You will support the PMO across a portfolio of infrastructure projects, coordinating schedules, reporting performance, and ensuring alignment with costs.

The role demands collaboration with engineers, construction, and commercial teams, with flexibility for remote work where feasible. The position requires knowledge of planning principles, Primavera P6 experience, and PMO exposure,

Qualifications

• Knowledge of project planning and scheduling principles.
• Experience maintaining and monitoring project schedules and plans.
• Experience coordinating activities across project teams.
• Understanding cost, risk, estimating and change management impacts on schedules.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Supporting Project and Programme Managers with project scheduling and planning activities.
• Preparing and delivering schedule-related reports, data and project performance information.
• Maintaining project schedules and ensuring alignment between programme plans and project costs.
• Assisting with critical path analysis, schedule variance reporting and annual spend forecasting.
• Collaborating with engineering, construction, commercial and supply chain teams to support project delivery.

Skills

Project planning

Scheduling

Stakeholder engagement

Cost management

PMO experience

Education

APM PPC

PFQ

ONC in Engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Job Title: Project Planner

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £33,900 - £42,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76600

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Project Planner at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Project Planner, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing Project Management Office (PMO) supporting the Capital Investment Portfolio. You'll work across complex and high-profile projects, helping to ensure critical programmes are delivered safely, efficiently and on schedule. As part of a collaborative team, you'll gain exposure to a wide range of stakeholders while developing your expertise in project controls, planning and scheduling within one of the UK's most important engineering and infrastructure environments.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide professional planning and scheduling support across a portfolio of infrastructure projects. Working closely with project managers, engineers, construction teams, commercial professionals, subcontractors and supply chain partners, you'll play a key role in coordinating project schedules, monitoring performance and supporting effective project delivery.

• Supporting Project and Programme Managers with project scheduling and planning activities.
• Preparing and delivering schedule-related reports, data and project performance information.
• Maintaining project schedules and ensuring alignment between programme plans and project costs.
• Assisting with critical path analysis, schedule variance reporting and annual spend forecasting.
• Collaborating with engineering, construction, commercial and supply chain teams to support project delivery.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Project Planner

• Knowledge of project planning, scheduling or project controls principles.
• Experience developing, maintaining and monitoring project schedules and programme plans.
• Experience coordinating activities and tracking progress across project teams.
• Understanding of how cost, risk, estimating and change management interact with project schedules.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications for the Project Planner

Desirable:

• Experience using Primavera P6 scheduling software.
• APM Project Planning & Control Foundation (PPC).
• APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ).
• ONC in an Engineering discipline or equivalent technical experience.

Security Clearance

The 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

Babcock

We’re Babcock — 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 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: 03/11/2026

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