Project Planner (Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG) @ Babcock

Job Title: Project Planner Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements Compensation: £33,900 - £42,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits Role Type: Full time / Permanent or Fixed Term Contract Role ID: SF76600 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 Devonport Royal Dockyard site. The role As a Project Planner, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing Project Management Office (PMO) supporting the Capital Investment Portfolio.

You'll work across complex and high-profile projects, helping to ensure critical programmes are delivered safely, efficiently and on schedule. As part of a collaborative team, you'll gain exposure to a wide range of stakeholders while developing your expertise in project controls, planning and scheduling within one of the UK's most important engineering and infrastructure environments. Day-to-day, you’ll provide professional planning and scheduling support across a portfolio of infrastructure projects.

Working closely with project managers, engineers, construction teams, commercial professionals, subcontractors and supply chain partners, you'll play a key role in coordinating project schedules, monitoring performance and supporting effective project delivery.

• Supporting Project and Programme Managers with project scheduling and planning activities.
• Preparing and delivering schedule-related reports, data and project performance information.
• Maintaining project schedules and ensuring alignment between programme plans and project costs.
• Assisting with critical path analysis, schedule variance reporting and annual spend forecasting.
• Collaborating with engineering, construction, commercial and supply chain teams to support project delivery.
• This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
• Essential experience of the Project Planner Knowledge of project planning, scheduling or project controls principles.
• Experience developing, maintaining and monitoring project schedules and programme plans.
• Experience coordinating activities and tracking progress across project teams.
• Understanding of how cost, risk, estimating and change management interact with project schedules.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Qualifications for the Project Planner Desirable: Experience using Primavera P6 scheduling software.
• APM Project Planning & Control Foundation (PPC).
• APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ).
• ONC in an Engineering discipline or equivalent technical 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 29,000 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 [email protected] 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: 03/11/2026 #BABDESTNUC