PMO Planning Lead

Job Title:              PMO Planning Lead
Location:              Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:    £56,837 + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF59486

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 PMO Planning Lead at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a PMO Planning Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Babcock has started a series of Major Infrastructure Projects (MIP) at Devonport in Plymouth. Over the next ten years Babcock will develop state of-the-art facilities to meet the evolving requirements of the UK’s Royal Navy.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead the MIP planning functional capability, supporting project teams across MIP on the application and management of all project planning, management and modelling across business winning and project delivery phases, primarily in complex situations, and to develop and maintain the associated management arrangements.  

• Develop, and maintain the planning management processes in accordance with the company management systems.
• Maintaining governance arrangements for planning management process through the project lifecycle, including the development and management of planning processes and deviations.
• Co-ordination of reviews of planning artefacts through the project lifecycle and at specific project assurance gates. 
• Ensure that the project schedules are being appropriately managed in accordance with MIP procedures on all projects within the portfolio.
• Ensure that the project schedule baselines are being correctly managed through appropriate change control.

This role is full time 35, hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the PMO Planning Lead

• Planning / scheduling experience in a major project-based engineering environment – ideally in Nuclear or Infrastructure.
• Schedule management for major projects.
• Development and maintenance of master schedules
• Worked with Project Managers to deliver successfully packages of work on major multi-disciplined projects.
• Supervised and line managed junior members of planning staff.
• Application, development, implementation and use of earned value management reporting and probabilistic schedules and QSRA.

Qualifications for the PMO Planning Lead

• Ideally a bachelor's degree in engineering / project / construction management or a related field.
• Member of professional association – APM or ACOSTE

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a UK national who is 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.

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: 22/09/2024

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