Location:
Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ
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Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Job Title: Senior Project Planner
Location: Bristol, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75311
Shape The Future of Critical Defence Programmes
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 House, Bristol site.
The Role
As a Senior Project Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll play a pivotal role in delivering high-profile defence and marine programmes that support national security and international partnerships. Working within our Mission Systems business, you'll lead the planning and schedule management approach for complex projects, ensuring alignment between project delivery, financial planning, and resource requirements.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing programme at an early stage, where your expertise will directly influence successful outcomes and help shape the future of a strategically important international defence partnership. You'll work alongside experienced professionals in a collaborative environment while developing your own leadership capability and career within one of the UK's leading aerospace, defence, and engineering organisations.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to
Developing and maintaining robust integrated project schedules across complex programmes.
Collaborating with Control Account Managers, project controllers, and senior stakeholders to support delivery objectives.
Driving schedule performance measurement and providing insight to improve project outcomes.
Embedding governance, assurance, and best practice throughout project planning activities.
Mentoring and supporting junior planners while championing a culture of delivery excellence
37 hours per week, based at Ashton House. Hybrid working patterns are available.
Essential experience of the Senior Project Planner
Extensive experience in a planning role within defence, engineering, infrastructure, or other complex project environments.
Advanced proficiency using Primavera P6 planning software.
Experience supporting Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis, including Monte Carlo techniques.
Proven ability to develop and maintain project governance documentation and planning frameworks.
Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
Qualifications for the Senior Project Planner
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
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 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.
Babcock
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: 17/08/2026
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