Job Description
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73164
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 Facility Planner at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
As a Facility Planner, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting major submarine and defence infrastructure programmes. You’ll help shape and maintain planning data that underpins critical operations, ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and on time.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the opportunity to work at the heart of project controls within a high-performing engineering environment. Your work will directly contribute to national security while giving you exposure to complex programmes, stakeholder engagement, and advanced planning tools—supporting your long-term career development in defence and engineering.
- Supporting the development and maintenance of project schedules using Primavera P6, ensuring accuracy and alignment with programme requirements
- Analysing planning data, performing schedule health checks, and identifying risks, delays, or changes to baseline
- Producing clear schedule visuals and reports to support programme reviews and stakeholder decision-making
- Collaborating with project controls, engineering, and operations teams to coordinate activities and resolve conflicts
- Participating in project meetings and supporting stakeholder engagement across multiple workstreams
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Facility Planner
- Experience using Primavera P6 or similar project planning tools
- Strong understanding of planning, scheduling methodologies, and project controls
- Experience working with Microsoft Office tools including Excel, PowerPoint, and data visualisation tools
- Ability to analyse data and communicate findings clearly to stakeholders
- Proven ability to work both independently and as part of a team
Qualifications for the Facility Planner
- GCSEs or equivalent academic qualifications - Essential
- Primavera P6 training - Essential
- Association for Project Management Project Fundamentals Qualification - Essential
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent - Desirable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 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’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 [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: 28/05/2026
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