Senior Planner

Nuclearinst; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday entitlement

Pension scheme with life assurance

Digital GP and health check

Employee share scheme

Professional fees paid

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear in Glasgow is seeking a Senior Planner to deliver complex, high‑value infrastructure projects that support the UK’s defence and energy capabilities. Based at our Glasgow site, you will develop and manage integrated schedules, ensuring robust planning standards across delivery stages.

Working within a joint venture, you will mentor junior planners and apply Primavera P6 to build WBS/OBS, update forecasts, and monitor schedule performance.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in Primavera P6 planning software.
• Experience in construction or engineering projects in highly regulated environments.
• Proven experience in a project controls or planning team.
• Strong understanding of planning methodologies and schedule management.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining detailed project schedules using Primavera P6.
• Creating and managing work breakdown structures and organisational breakdown structures.
• Updating schedules to reflect forecast dates and estimates at completion.
• Performing earned value analysis to monitor project performance.
• Mentoring junior planners within the team.

Skills

Primavera P6

Project controls

Schedule management

Collaboration

Regulated environments

Education

Project management qualification

APM accreditation desirable

Engineering qualification

Tools

NEC4 contracts

Job description

Job Title: Senior Planner

Location: Glasgow + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF 74215

Shape The Future Of Complex Engineering Projects That Protect And Power The UK

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 Senior Planner based at our Glasgow site.

The role

As a Senior Planner, you will play a pivotal role in delivering complex, high-value infrastructure projects that support the UK’s defence and energy capabilities. Working within a collaborative joint venture environment, you will develop and manage integrated project schedules, ensuring robust planning standards and accurate forecasting across all stages of delivery.

This role is full time and based at our Glasgow site, with hybrid working patterns available.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Developing and maintaining detailed project schedules using Primavera P6
• Creating and managing work breakdown structures and organisational breakdown structures
• Updating schedules to reflect forecast dates and estimates at completion
• Performing earned value analysis to monitor project performance
• Supporting programme leadership and mentoring junior planners within the team

Essential experience of the Senior Planner:

• Demonstrable expertise in Primavera P6 planning software
• Experience within construction or engineering projects in highly regulated environments
• Proven experience working within a project controls or planning team
• Strong understanding of planning methodologies and schedule management
• Ability to collaborate effectively within multi-disciplinary and joint venture teams

Qualifications for the Senior Planner:

• A recognised project management or engineering qualification, or equivalent experience
• APM accreditation or equivalent is desirable
• Knowledge of NEC4 contracts and nuclear sector experience would be advantageous

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Standard (SC) security clearance for this role. 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 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: 26/06/2026

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