Job Title: Project Planner
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
We’re hiring experienced Project Planners at all levels, from early career professionals through to Principal Project Planners. You’ll play a vital role in delivering complex defence and engineering programmes that help safeguard national security, work that protects people, communities and critical infrastructure every day.
The role
As an experienced Project Planner, you’ll play a vital role in enabling the successful delivery of complex programmes across defence, aerospace and engineering. Your work will bring structure, insight and control to projects that matter supporting teams to make informed decisions, manage risk and deliver with confidence.
As a Project Planner you will:
1. Develop, own and maintain integrated project schedules, including baselines, scenario planning and performance measurement.
2. Apply Earned Value and schedule performance techniques to provide insight, challenge delivery assumptions and support informed decision‑making.
3. Support effective project governance through accurate reporting, change control and schedule assurance.
As a Senior Project Planner you will:
4. Develop and lead the creation of fully integrated project schedules that drive effective delivery.
5. Analyse performance, including scenario planning, baseline variations and earned value metrics.
6. Maintain governance artefacts, ensuring schedules align with project management and schedule management plans.
As a Principal Planner you will:
7. Collaborate with Control Account Managers, project controllers, and senior stakeholders.
8. Develop and maintain robust integrated project schedules.
9. Champion project outcomes and mentor junior planners.
10. Embed governance and assurance into schedule management.
11. Drive performance measurement and delivery focus across programmes.
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 Project Planner | Senior Project Planner | Principal Project Planner:
12. Experience in a project planning environment
13. Proficiency in Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project
14. Strong analytical and communication skills
15. Stakeholder engagement experience
16. Good organisational skills.
Qualifications for the Project Planner | Senior Project Planner | Principal 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.
We offer clear and varied career pathways within Mission Systems and the wider organisation for experienced Project Planners, with opportunities to progress from Planner to Senior Planner, Principal Planner, and ultimately Discipline Lead, supporting long‑term career development and professional growth.
If your skills and experience align with one of our opportunities, we’ll be in touch. If not, we’ll retain your CV and consider you for future roles as they arise.
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 Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.
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