Senior Project Planner
Location: Warrington OR Bristol, UK (Hybrid)
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Responsibilities
As a Senior Project Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of delivering complex projects that shape the future of the nuclear industry, ensuring schedules are robust, aligned, and drive successful outcomes. Day‑to‑day, you’ll be responsible for applying schedule management independently primarily in complex situations across Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management (P3M).
* Develop, implement and maintain the Project structures (WBS/OBS/RBS/CBS).
* Develop, baseline and maintain the Project integrated schedules.
* Ensure alignment between the integrated scheduling toolset and the company's financial and material demand toolset.
* Provide regular status updates of the integrated schedule and deliver metrics (e.g., critical path, total float) and schedule analysis of the impact to the project.
Essential Experience
* Experience of Project Planning using Primavera P6.
* Previous experience of working as a Project Planner within a high regulated industry/environment.
Qualifications
* A bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
* A recognised professional qualification such as APM, Acoste, RICS (or equivalent).
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Benefits
* 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 allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement (window opens February through to March annually).
* ‘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.
About the Company
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost‑effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan.
EEO Statement
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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
06/02/2026
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