Senior Project Planner

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

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension

Digital GP

Aviva DigiCare+

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists leave (10 days)

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock in Devonport, Plymouth, is seeking a Senior Project Planner to provide specialist planning across a portfolio of projects at HM Naval Base Devonport, collaborating with project teams to drive planning excellence and ensure schedule quality.

This on-site role (35 hours per week) offers the chance to support schedule risk analysis, maintenance of baselines, and continuous improvement, enabling delivery of critical defence capabilities.

Qualifications

• Significant experience using Primavera P6 for schedule review, administration and access management.
• Experience applying planning assurance methodologies (FUSE/DCMA14 helpful).
• Experience supporting creation/maintenance of Project Management Baselines.
• Experience in schedule risk modelling and Monte Carlo analysis using Safran.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Primavera P6

Schedule planning

Risk analysis

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in project management/engineering

Professional accreditation in project management

Tools

Primavera P6

Safran

Job description

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Senior Project Planner

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 Planner at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Senior Project Planner, 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 Planner

• 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 Planner

• 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

• 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.

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