Senior Project Planner

weServed; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday

Pension and life assurance

Digital GP

Employee shopping

Professional fees paid

Be Kind Day

Reservists leave

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Senior Project Planner for the Devonport Royal Dockyard in Plymouth, Devon. The role delivers specialist planning across multiple projects, collaborates with project teams and risk specialists, and supports schedule assurance and continuous improvement.

On-site, full-time, 35 hours per week, with defence project responsibilities. The successful candidate will have Primavera P6 expertise, planning assurance knowledge, and experience with Monte Carlo and risk modelling.

Job description

Job Title: Senior Project Planner

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £44,600 Depending on experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF77151

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 Planer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Senior Project Planer, you'll provide specialist planning expertise across a portfolio of projects at HM Naval Base Devonport. Working closely with project teams, planners and risk specialists, you'll help drive planning excellence, assure schedule quality, support risk analysis activities and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Day-to-day, your work will play a vital role in helping deliver critical defence capabilities, while offering excellent opportunities to further develop your career within one of the UK's leading engineering and defence organisations.

• Reviewing and assessing project schedules for quality, compliance and planning standards.
• Analysing planning data to support milestone reporting and schedule performance monitoring.
• Supporting schedule risk analysis activities and contributing to project controls best practice.
• Strengthening planning capability across projects through assurance and continuous improvement activities.
• Collaborating with project teams, planning specialists and stakeholders to drive effective project delivery.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Senior Project Planer

• Significant experience using Primavera P6, including schedule review, administration and access management.
• Experience applying planning assurance methodologies, with knowledge of FUSE or DCMA14 principles advantageous.
• Experience supporting the creation and maintenance of Project Management Baselines.
• Experience in schedule risk modelling and supporting Monte Carlo analysis using Safran®.

Qualifications for the Senior Project Planer

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Project Management, Engineering or a related discipline; or
• Professional accreditation in a relevant field; or
• Demonstrable equivalent experience, including extensive hands-on planning 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: 25/11/2026

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