Job Title: Project Planner
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Plan, challenge and shape the delivery of complex defence programmes
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Project Planner within our Mission Systems business, supporting the successful delivery of complex, high‑value defence programmes.
The Role
As a Project Planner, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining and driving integrated project schedules that enable on‑time and cost‑effective delivery across a portfolio of technically complex projects. Working closely with Project Managers and wider programme teams, you will provide planning insight, challenge assumptions and help strengthen delivery performance through robust schedule management and Earned Value techniques.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
1. Developing, owning and maintaining integrated project schedules, including baselines, scenario planning and performance measurement.
2. Applying Earned Value and schedule performance techniques to provide insight, challenge delivery assumptions and support informed decision‑making.
3. Working closely with Project Managers, Control Account Managers, engineers and customers to ensure schedules accurately reflect scope, progress and risk.
4. Supporting effective project governance through accurate reporting, change control and schedule assurance.
5. Contributing to the continuous improvement of planning practices across the Mission Systems portfolio.
This is a full‑time, hybrid role, with flexible working arrangements and up to two days per week onsite in Bristol.
Essential experience of the Project Planner:
6. Proven experience working as a Project Planner or in a similar planning or project controls role within a complex project environment.
7. Experience with Primavera P6
8. Strong experience creating and managing integrated project schedules and baselines.
9. Practical experience of Earned Value Management and performance reporting.
Qualifications for the 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 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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