Job Title: Senior Project Planner
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £56, - £66, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape the Future of Defence and 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 Rosyth 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 our Marine business, applying advanced project planning techniques across complex programmes. You’ll develop and maintain integrated schedules, ensuring alignment with financial and material demand systems. This is a role where your expertise will make a real difference - supporting critical projects, influencing outcomes, and driving success.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
1. Develop, define, and maintain project structures (WBS/OBS/RBS/CBS).
2. Build and baseline integrated project schedules (Levels 1–4).
3. Ensure alignment between scheduling tools and financial/material systems.
4. Provide regular status updates, metrics, and critical path analysis.
5. Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely planning insights.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Senior Project Planner
6. Strong knowledge of network scheduling.
7. Advanced proficiency in scheduling tools such as Primavera P6.
8. Experience in forensic planning and full project lifecycle.
9. Excellent communication skills for presenting complex information clearly.
10. Proactive approach with the ability to meet challenging objectives.
Qualifications for the Senior Project Planner
11. 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 .
What we offer
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. 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.
20. ‘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
21. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.