Senior Planner
Babcock International Group
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Job summary
Cavendish Nuclear is recruiting a Senior Planner to support the Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station programme in Bristol. The role is full-time with hybrid working, requiring advanced scheduling using Primavera P6 and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
You will track progress, analyze trends, and support risk assessments and change control to maintain schedule integrity. SC security clearance is required, with a generous benefits package and clear career development.
Qualifications
- Extensive experience with Primavera P6 for detailed schedules.
- Experience in nuclear or similarly complex regulated environments.
- Strong analytical and data interpretation skills.
- Proven ability to liaise with stakeholders and drive collaboration.
- Understanding of schedule, cost and risk integration in projects.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain detailed construction and installation schedules using Primavera P6.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to gather project data and ensure schedule accuracy.
- Track progress, identify delays and recommend actions to maintain programme performance.
- Support risk assessments, scenario planning and change control for schedules.
- Prepare schedule performance reports and communicate insights to stakeholders.
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Education
Job description
Job Title: Senior Planner
+ Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74525
Shape the future of clean energy on one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects. 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 at Aztec West, near Bristol, Gloucestershire.
Job Title: Senior Planner
Location: Bristol
+ Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74525
Shape the future of clean energy on one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects. 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 at Aztec West, near Bristol, Gloucestershire.
As a Senior Planner, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of the Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station programme.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Developing and maintaining detailed construction and installation schedules using Primavera P6.
- Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to gather project data and ensure schedule accuracy.
- Tracking progress, identifying potential delays and recommending actions to maintain programme performance.
- Supporting risk assessments, scenario planning and change control activities to assess schedule impacts.
- Preparing schedule performance reports and communicating planning insights to key stakeholders.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and based inBristol. Flexible working arrangements are available with hybrid working options available.
- Extensive experience using Primavera P6, including advanced planning and scheduling capabilities.
- Experience within nuclear project planning or similarly complex regulated environments.
- Demonstrating strong analytical skills with the ability to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
- Building effective relationships with stakeholders through excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Understanding project controls disciplines, including schedule, cost and risk integration.
- Demonstrable planning and scheduling expertise gained within major infrastructure, engineering or nuclear projects.
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- 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.
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.
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 17/08/2026
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A Senior Project Planner is a senior-level professional role in the Planning discipline of the Delivery role family. This role requires in-depth knowledge, expertise and multiple years experience of professional practice within this discipline. This role undertakes complex and non-routine professional assignments with minimal supervision and may provide leadership to more junior roles
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