Senior Project Planner

Job Title: Senior Project Planner

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF71279

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Project Planner at Ashton House, near Bristol.

The Role

As a Senior Project Planner, you'll play a crucial role in delivering complex defence and engineering projects that help safeguard national security. This is your opportunity to influence high profile programmes within our Mission Systems business, a team recognised for innovative design, precision engineering and equipment support for customers in the UK and around the world.

Your work will directly shape how we plan, manage and deliver major submarine and technology projects. You'll be central to driving performance, improving schedule accuracy, and ensuring integrated plans deliver on time, to cost and to quality. It's a chance to refine your planning expertise, grow your leadership capability, and develop a rewarding career in defence, aerospace and engineering.

Day to day, you'll be required to:

• Develop and lead the creation of fully integrated project schedules that drive effective delivery.
• Engage with Project Managers, Control Account Managers and customers to ensure plans reflect scope, progress and priorities.
• Analyse performance, including scenario planning, baseline variations and earned value metrics.
• Maintain governance artefacts, ensuring schedules align with project management and schedule management plans.
• Support and collaborate within the wider Planning Discipline, contributing to best practice and future capability.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential Experience of the Senior Project Planner

• Proficient in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent analytical, organisational and time management abilities.
• Experience within a similar project planning environment.
• Comfortable working with governance artefacts and supporting junior team members.

Qualifications for the Senior Project Planner

Essential:

• No formal qualifications required.

Desirable:

• Experience of Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis.
• Relevant industry training or professional development in project planning.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. You will be eligible to start on Standard (BPSS) security clearance, but you will need to obtain Security Check (SC) once in post.

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 ().

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.

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 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.