Project Planner

Job Title:              Project Planner
Location:              Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:    Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF62168

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 Project Planner at our Ashton Vale, Bristol site.

The Role
As a Project Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be responsible for developing and successfully delivering a detailed integrated schedule to time, quality and cost, achieving customer satisfaction and internal targets, creating baselines and having excellent knowledge or baseline management.

Day-to-day as a Project Planner, you’ll:

• Develop and successfully delivery of a detailed integrated schedule.
• Creating baselines and baseline management.
• Consistently analysing schedule data to inform project team of risk & opportunities.
• Use specific techniques for performing measurement such as EVM, S-Curve, variance analysis, lookahead reporting.
• Help build the function & tool maturity by creating/delivering working processes and sharing good practice.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days onsite and 3 days working from home. However, you may be required to be onsite for longer periods of time if the project demands.

Essential Experience of the Project Planner

• Proficient in the use of project scheduling software essentially Primavera P6, with a basic knowledge of Managing Successful Programmes (MSP).
• Excellent analytical and planning skills.
• Relevant experience in a similar role & environment.    
• Experience creating, maintaining, and working in accordance with related Governance artefacts (Project Management Plans, Schedule Management Plans).
• The ability to help mature the function & tool set with a standard approach attitude to simplify the way we work.

Qualifications for the Project Planner 

• Minimum GCSE in Mathematics and English
   

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 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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• Potential to develop skills

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 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: 26/02/2025

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