Planning Engineer

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A Project Planner is an intermediate-level professional role in the Planning discipline of the Delivery role family. This role requires an expanded level of knowledge and experience of professional practice in this discipline, representing the first degree of progression from an entry-level role. This role applies discipline domain knowledge, experience, and judgement to undertake a range of professional assignments. This role will work within established procedures and guidance, under supervision from management roles or senior grade professionals

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Job Title: Planning Engineer

Location: Devonport, Plymouth

Compensation: £33,900 - £42,400

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF77031

Help shape the future of critical engineering 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 Planning Engineer at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

As a Planning Engineer, you'll support the successful delivery of complex engineering programmes that are vital to national defence and infrastructure. Working within our Facilities Engineering team, you'll play a key role in ensuring projects are effectively planned, monitored and delivered. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your project controls and planning expertise while collaborating with technical specialists, engineers and project teams across a unique and highly regulated environment.

The role

The Facilities Engineering department supports the safe, effective and efficient operation of site-wide facilities by providing engineering oversight, planning and delivery support across a range of programmes and projects. Through robust planning and reporting processes, the team enables informed decision-making, supports programme delivery and helps ensure resources, budgets and schedules are managed effectively.

As a Planning Engineer, you'll work on meaningful projects that support critical defence capabilities while building valuable experience in planning, scheduling and project controls. You'll have the opportunity to influence project outcomes, develop your technical expertise and contribute to work that makes a real difference.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Creating and maintaining project schedules using appropriate planning methodologies and facility requirements.
• Collaborating with Design Authorities, Engineering Delivery Managers and project leads to ensure programme requirements are accurately reflected in plans.
• Monitoring project progress within Primavera P6 and analysing schedule performance to identify risks, variances and opportunities.
• Facilitating schedule reviews with engineering and project stakeholders and recommending corrective actions where required.
• Producing project reports, supporting budget monitoring activities and maintaining resource and cost-related planning data.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Planning Engineer:

• Experience working within an engineering environment.
• Planning and programme management experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to interpret project data and identify schedule risks, trends and variances.
• Working knowledge of Primavera P6 would be advantageous.

Qualifications for the Planning Engineer:

Essential:

• Minimum of 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) at Grade A-C / 4-9.

Desirable:

• Planning, project controls or programme management-related qualifications.
• Primavera P6 training or certification.

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 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

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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: 16/11/2026