Job Title: Assistant Project Planner
Location: Devonport, Plymouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £28,300 - £35,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73063
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 Assistant Project Planner at our Devonport, Plymouth site.
The role
As an Assistant Project Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll support the planning and project controls function within our Submarine programme, helping to ensure complex projects are delivered safely, efficiently and on time. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your planning expertise while contributing to work that supports the UK’s defence capability.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Support the Senior Planner in creating, maintaining and implementing the project planning database
- Compile, reorganise and adjust project data into a consistent and accurate format
- Attend project meetings on behalf of the Senior Planner when required
- Produce high-level planning visuals and reports to support project reviews and decision-making
This is a full-time role, working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based at Devonport Dockyard. Hybrid working patterns are available in line with local agreements.
Essential experience of the Assistant Project Planner:
- Demonstrable experience using Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint
- An understanding of basic planning or scheduling principles or methodologies
- The ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team
- Strong organisational skills with attention to detail
- A positive, proactive approach to learning and problem-solving
Qualifications for the Assistant Project Planner:
- GCSEs (or equivalent)
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent qualification (desirable)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- 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 shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- 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.
- ‘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
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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.
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: 01/05/2026
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