Job Title: Facility Planner
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £33, to £42, Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape the Planning that Protects the Nation.
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as aFacility Planner, at our Plymouth, Devon site.
The role
As a Facility Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of the planning activity that underpins complex, high‑value submarine support programmes. Working within a high‑performing planning team, you’ll help shape, maintain and improve the schedules that enable confident decision‑making across major defence engineering projects.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
1. Support the Senior Planner by developing, maintaining and implementing planning schedules for operations and maintenance activities
2. Compile and standardise planning and project data to ensure consistency, accuracy and clarity
3. Produce high‑level schedule visuals and reports for programme reviews and stakeholder briefings
4. Attend project meetings and representing planning activity when required
5. Collaborate with colleagues across project controls, engineering and wider support teams to integrate facility schedules and manage change
This is a full‑time, permanent position, working 35 hours per week, based onsite at Devonport Royal Dockyard. Set working times are Monday to Thursday 7:30am-3:30pm and Friday 7:30am-12:30pm.
Essential experience of the Facility Planner:
6. Experience using Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
7. Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team
8. A logical, organised approach with attention to detail
9. Confidence communicating with a range of internal stakeholders
10. An interest in planning, scheduling or project environments within engineering or infrastructure
Qualifications for the Facility Planner:
11. GCSEs or equivalent academic qualifications
12. P6 Fundamentals and Advanced (desirable)
13. AMP Planning Foundations Qualification (desirable)
14. 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 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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