Senior Project Planner

Job Title:              Senior Project Planner 
Location:              Bristol or Leicester, Leicestershire or Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation:    Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:                SF56449

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 Bristol, Leicester or Plymouth sites.

The Role
As a Senior Project Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Being responsible for developing, maintaining and analysing integrated schedules in support of successful project delivery.

Day to day, you’ll be utilising your strong communication, relationship building and team playing capability to ensure the integrated schedule is reflective of all contract work and deliverables, reflects current status / progress, is used to drive focused and effective delivery and supports clear performance measuring:

• Your motivation, drive and passion for managing and delivering successful project outcomes will win the hearts and minds of customers and colleagues alike.
• You will work with various stakeholders including Project Managers, Control Account Managers, Project Controllers, customers and wider project stakeholders.
• You will also sit within our Planning Discipline, reporting to a Principal Planner (or similar role) who will support future development.

This role is a full-time position that is contracted at 37 hours per week and can be based at our Bristol, Leicester or Plymouth sites, with hybrid working from home arrangements.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential Experience of the Senior Project Planner:

• Experience of using Primavera P6.
• Relevant experience in a similar role, environment and / or industry.
• Experience creating, maintaining and / or working in accordance with related Governance artefacts (i.e. Project Management Plans, Schedule Management Plans etc).
• Experience of supporting Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (I.e. Monte Carlo) is desirable but, not essential.
• Knowledge of MoD working practices / EVM is desirable but, not essential.

Qualifications for the Senior Project Planner:
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience then we would like to hear from you.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance 
• Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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 most 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

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock International have 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. 

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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: 17/04/2024

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