Construction Planner Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning

weServed; Taunton (MA); Hybrid; USD 73,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP & health checks

Employee share scheme

Disability confident employer

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is recruiting a Construction Planner for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning at Hinkley Point C. The role is full-time with hybrid patterns, typically four days onsite and one day remote, based in the UK.

You will develop and maintain detailed HVAC schedules and ensure progress aligns with milestones. The successful candidate will have at least five years of planning experience in large-scale projects, expertise in Primavera P6, and site-based engineering familiarity.

Qualifications

• Five years' planning experience in construction, engineering, infrastructure or major projects.
• Experience developing and maintaining detailed project schedules and lookahead plans.
• Experience using Primavera P6 planning software.
• Site-based construction or engineering environment experience.
• Experience in maintenance/outage planning or project controls activities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed HVAC Level 5 construction schedules.
• Prepare and update four-week lookahead plans aligned with milestones.
• Integrate engineering, materials, access, resource, quality and commissioning needs into schedules.
• Monitor progress and provide evidence-based schedule updates.
• Produce productivity and progress reports to support decision making.

Skills

Construction planning

Lookahead planning

Schedule development

Education

Higher National Certificate in Engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Job Title: Construction Planner Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning

Location: Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset – Hybrid Working Patterns Available

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75406

Help shape the delivery of one of the UK's most complex engineering and infrastructure programmes

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 Construction Planner Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning at Hinkley Point C, near Bridgwater, Somerset.

The role

As a Construction Planner Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning, you’ll play a vital role in supporting the successful delivery of critical construction activities on a nationally significant project. Working within a major engineering environment, you’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining detailed construction schedules, ensuring progress is accurately measured and aligned with programme milestones.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a growing team where your expertise will provide visibility of construction readiness, productivity, schedule risks and constraints, helping to drive safe, efficient and predictable project delivery. You’ll collaborate with a range of stakeholders and gain valuable experience on a large-scale infrastructure programme that will enhance both your professional development and long-term career prospects within the defence, engineering and construction sectors.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Developing and maintaining detailed Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning Level 5 construction schedules.
• Preparing and updating four-week lookahead plans aligned with programme milestones and delivery objectives.
• Integrating engineering, materials, access, resource, quality and commissioning requirements into construction schedules.
• Monitoring progress, tracking installed quantities and providing accurate, evidence-based schedule updates.
• Producing productivity, planned versus actual and progress performance reports to support informed decision-making.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based at Hinkley Point C. Hybrid working patterns are available, with an expected onsite presence of four days per week and one day remote.

Essential experience of the Construction Planner Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning:

• At least five years' planning experience within construction, engineering, infrastructure or major project environments.
• Experience developing and maintaining detailed project schedules and lookahead plans.
• Experience using Primavera P6 planning software.
• Experience working within site-based construction or engineering environments.
• Experience in maintenance planning, outage planning, shutdown planning or project controls activities.

Qualifications for the Construction Planner Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning:

• Higher National Certificate in any Engineering discipline.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a valid UK passport holder, with the ability to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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 portalPayment 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: 03/11/2026

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