Operational Planner

Job Title:                     Operational Planner

Location:                     Warminster, Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           £33,519.00 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Fixed Term Contract

Role ID:                       SF72833

Plan and enable delivery across complex maintenance operations

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Operational Planner, supporting the planning and delivery of Maintenance, Repair and Operations activities across a range of military platforms and equipment.

The role

As an Operational Planner, you’ll play a key role in ensuring maintenance workloads are planned, resourced and delivered effectively. Using enterprise planning systems and supporting tools, you’ll help translate operational demand into robust, achievable plans while identifying risks, constraints and dependencies.

You’ll work closely with Operations and support functions to protect delivery performance, manage capacity and provide clear management information to support decision‑making.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Planning Maintenance, Repair and Operations workloads using ERP systems and associated planning tools.
• Assessing capacity, skills, materials, facilities, tooling and work‑centre productivity to create achievable plans.
• Identifying risks, dependencies and constraints, and communicating impacts to key stakeholders.
• Producing accurate management information on scenarios, status and performance.
• Ensuring planning data, material assessments and job pack documentation are completed accurately and on time.
• Building strong working relationships with Operations and support teams to enable successful delivery.

This is a full‑time, fixed‑term role for 10 months, working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Essential experience of the Operational Planner:

• Experience using an ERP system for scheduling or operational planning.
• Experience working with and analysing large volumes of data.
• Understanding of the planning cycle within a Maintenance, Repair and Operations environment.
• Experience creating or working with performance metrics and management information.

Qualifications for the Operational Planner:

Educated to Level 3 or equivalent (such as an advanced apprenticeship, NVQ, A‑level, IB Diploma or equivalent workplace experience).

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 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. 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.

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: 21/04/2026