Senior Project Planner

Job Title:                     Senior Project Planner

Location:                     Plymouth Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           £54,019 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF72180

Shape the schedules behind the programmes that protect our nation

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 have an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful difference by guiding project teams, improving planning capability across the business, and helping leaders make informed, future‑focused decisions. It’s a role where you’ll grow your technical and leadership skills while working within an organisation committed to professional development and long‑term career progression.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide expert planning leadership across some of the UK’s most complex and strategically important defence programmes. Your work will sit at the heart of major engineering and infrastructure projects, strengthening the accuracy, integrity and confidence of programme schedules that directly support the Royal Navy and wider national defence.

• Develop, maintain and assure integrated programme schedules, ensuring clear logic, dependencies and critical path analysis.
• Lead schedule impact assessments related to change, risk, performance and mitigation.
• Provide expert planning insight to governance forums, assurance activities and senior leadership discussions.
• Coach and mentor junior planners, raising planning standards and capability across the organisation.
• Drive consistency and continuous improvement in planning methods, quality and tools.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience of the Senior Project Planner

• Significant experience in programme or major project planning within complex environments.
• Strong proficiency in Primavera P6 (or equivalent).
• Proven experience integrating schedule, cost, risk and change data.
• Experience supporting assurance, audit or regulatory reviews.
• Ability to operate independently and communicate confidently with senior stakeholders.

Qualifications for the Senior Project Planner

• Any relevant project controls, planning or scheduling training or certification would be advantageous.

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 and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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 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: 22/03/2026

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