Senior Project Planner

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, Rosyth; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Project Planner at a dynamic site, where you will engage in a complex engineering project in the nuclear sector. This role offers the chance to lead planning assignments, develop integrated schedules, and ensure alignment with financial demands. With a hybrid work model, you will enjoy flexibility while contributing to a project that plays a vital role in infrastructure development. The organization is committed to innovation and sustainability, providing excellent development opportunities and a supportive work environment. If you're ready to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP access

Employee share scheme

Professional fees payment

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in project planning within the nuclear sector.
• Advanced knowledge of scheduling tools and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated project schedules with minimal supervision.
• Provide leadership to junior roles and project controls peers.

Skills

Project Planning

Scheduling Toolsets (Primavera/MSP)

Quantitative Risk Analysis

Contracting Methodologies (FIDIC/NEC/JCT)

Full Project Lifecycle Experience

Education

Project Planning and Controls – Practitioner

APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ)

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

Job description

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 Senior Project Planner at our Rosyth site.

The role
As a Senior Project Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a new team working on a complex and challenging engineering project in the nuclear sector, within a nuclear related infrastructure development project.

Day-to-day, you’ll undertake complex and non-routine Planning professional assignments (in Primavera P6) within the programme, with minimal supervision and may also provide leadership to more junior roles and other project controls peers. You will also:

• Regular status update of the integrated schedule and the provision of metrics (e.g. critical path/total float) and schedule analysis of the impact to the project.
• Develop, implement, and maintain the Project structures.
• Develop, baseline, and maintain the Project integrated schedule, including leading all status updates with key stakeholders on a weekly/monthly basis.
• Ensure alignment between the integrated scheduling and the companies financial and material demand (P6 – ERP/IFS).

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Project Planner

• Extensive, relevant experience in a similar environment / business sector
• Experienced in various contracting methodologies (e.g. FIDIC/NEC/JCT)
• Advanced knowledge of scheduling toolsets e.g. Primavera/MSP etc…
• Quantitative risk analysis experience
• Full project lifecycle experience

Qualifications for the Senior Project Planner

• Project Planning and Controls – Practitioner
• APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ)

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

What we offer

• 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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.