Senior Project Planner
Location: Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ
Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Job Title: Senior Project Planner
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF61950
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 Ashton Vale, Bristol site.
The Role
As a Senior Project Planner, you’ll lead and establish Planning and Scheduling from bid through to execution/delivery, with the opportunity to be involved in contract negotiation, creating a successful relationship with the customer and building trust from day one.
Day-to-day, you’ll support a wide range of exciting design, manufacture, and Equipment support projects, working with key clients both domestically and internationally. You will collaborate with various stakeholders including Project Managers, Control Account Managers, Project Controllers, customers, and wider project stakeholders. You will also sit within our Planning Discipline, reporting to the Project Planning Discipline Leader who will support your future development.
* Develop and successfully deliver a detailed integrated schedule.
* Create baselines and manage baseline changes.
* Consistently analyze schedule data to inform the project team of risks and opportunities.
* Use specific techniques for performing measurement such as Earned Value Management (EVM), S-Curve, variance analysis, lookahead reporting, etc.
* Help build the function and tool maturity by creating/delivering working processes and sharing best practices.
This role is full-time, 37 hours per week, and provides hybrid working arrangements with a maximum of 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home. However, you may be required to attend longer periods on-site if the project demands.
Essential Experience of the Senior Project Planner
* Proficient in project scheduling software, particularly Primavera P6, with a basic knowledge of Managing Successful Programmes (MSP).
* Excellent analytical and planning skills, with the ability to develop, mentor, and teach best practices.
* Relevant experience in a similar role and environment.
* Experience creating, maintaining, and working in accordance with related Governance artifacts (i.e., Project Management Plans, Schedule Management Plans, etc.).
* The ability to help mature the function and toolset with a standard approach to simplify our processes.
Qualifications for the Senior Project Planner
* Minimum GCSE in Mathematics and English.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who can achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
What We Offer
* 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 of special paid leave.
* Holiday Trading allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave.
* ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year to undertake volunteering work.
* Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance program supporting physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.
* Flexible working options to better integrate work and personal life.
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: 12/02/2025
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