Senior Project Planner

**Senior Project Planner**:

- Location: Faslane, Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL
- Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

**Job Title: Senior Project Planner**

**Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute**

**Compensation: Up to £59,500 depending on experience + Benefits**

**Role Type: Full time / Permanent**

**Role ID: SF67765**

**Shape the Future of Defence Engineering**

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 HMNB Clyde Faslane site.

**The role**

As a Senior Project Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of one of the UK’s most critical defence programmes. This is your opportunity to lead integrated scheduling across complex engineering projects, ensuring delivery confidence and operational excellence. You’ll make a real impact by aligning planning outputs with financial and strategic goals, helping to safeguard national security and support the Royal Navy’s fleet readiness.

Day-to-day you’ll be:

- Developing and maintaining integrated project schedules and planning structures.
- Aligning schedules with financial forecasts and material demand.
- Providing schedule metrics, analysis, and reporting to support decision-making.
- Coaching and leading a team of project planners to ensure compliance with planning standards.
- Driving continuous improvement and stakeholder engagement across Fleet Programmes

This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane.

**Essential experience of the Senior Project Planner**
- Extensive experience in a similar environment or sector (ideally defence, engineering, or infrastructure).
- Full project lifecycle experience from initiation to closure.
- Advanced knowledge of scheduling tools such as Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
- Familiarity with contracting methodologies including FIDIC, NEC, and JCT.
- Expertise in quantitative risk analysis to support forecasting and mitigation planning.

**Qualifications for the Senior Project Planner**
- Level 6 qualification in a relevant discipline (bachelor’s degree or higher).
- Primavera 106P Advanced Project Management certification.
- Primavera 106R Resource Management certification.
- APM Project Management Qualification.
- APM Project Professional Qualification.

**Security Clearance**

**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. 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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

**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.

**Closing date: 07/10/2025**

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